From a science background (via stand-up comic, musician, actor, artist...), she taught kids with behavioural difficulties for nearly twenty years, before completing an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She lectured in CW at BSU for seven years and at the Open University since 2008, both intermediate and advanced courses, and teaches two online poetry courses with Exeter University. She was Writer in Residence for the Write Team's 2008 Bath Festival project, and organised, hosted and performed in the Parlour to Pavement poetry evening for the 2010 Bath Fringe Festival. Her poetry has been published in Envoi, Obsessed With Pipework, Snakeskin, Orbis, Interpreter's House, Iota and The Frogmore Papers. She has several novels languishing on her hard drive, four 'baby books' and umpteen short stories. She also has Aspergers' Syndrome, which might explain a lot.