She teaches creative writing at Massey University’s Auckland campus, and co-facilitates the Michael King Young Writers Programme. She will visit the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences this March to talk to third-year students, as she has done for the past two years. Her doctoral thesis in creative writing, through Massey’s School of English and Media Studies, explores the emerging field of medical humanities, investigating the work of New Zealand poets on medical themes, alongside her own collection about her mother’s cancer treatment, Family History, which she hopes to publish later this year.