Writing

I write fiction and non-fiction, and have done since I could hold a pen.

I am primarily an essayist and reviewer, and write twenty-first century demoniac, a Substack blog which takes a closer look at what we’re missing when we get stuck in a doomscroll. My work is concerned with art, power, the internet, and our imaginings of the body across time. I’m currently interested in analysing body-management practices and the wellness industry, through a critical feminist lens. Selected publications below.

My pamphlet SEA GLASS(ES), which brings together two essays on memory, travel, and both physical and mental space is now available from Tallfinger Press in December 2024.

‘Sauce Material’: History as Recipe and Cooking For the Dead (death kit #1, 2025; Print)

‘Late Michelangelo’ (Oxford Review of Books, Summer 2025; Print)

the caryatid manifesto: art and the female body (Substack, 2025)

Down the Rabbit Hole (The London Magazine, April-May, 2025; Print)

‘We are Never Well, nor Can Be So’ Review of Caroline Crampton’s A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria (LARB, 2025)

getting too close: thoughts on disgust and discomfort (Substack, 2025)

Review: Helen King’s Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the history of women’s bodies (Institute of Historical Research, 2025)

communication through consumption: the cult of the new fun drink (Substack, 2024)

twee utopias: on comfort culture’s reactionary fantasies (Substack, 2024)

a radical aesthetics: reflections on Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo (Substack, 2024)

soft power americana: digital hegemony & the americanisation of the internet (Substack, 2024)

Scribbling Girls (Atmospheric Quarterly, 2024)

Review: Lynn Schmeidler’s Half Lives (Necessary Fiction, 2024)

dating in the digital panopticon: red flags, boyfriend tests, and commodifying romance online (Substack, 2024)

Reflection (Leon Literary Review, 2024) Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

in search of cool: who is the literary it girl and why should we care? (Substack, 2024)

The Short Story (Lunate Magazine, 2023)

the modern myth of the divine feminine: divine bullshit and the threat to feminism (Substack, 2023)

TICK TOCK (Oxford Review of Books, 2021)

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