A former medical research scientist, and literary program coordinator for The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, she is currently Coordinator of Hospital Poets Australia as part of The Katharine Susannah Prichard Foundation Inc., and has research interests in the impact of poetry on state positive affect in the health workforce. Her poetry has been recognised through various awards, including twice winning the KW Treanor Poetry Prize, and is published in Australian literary journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Westerly, Meanjin and Award Winning Australian Writing. Her first chapbook, Aporiac, was published with Finishing Line Press, USA, in 2016.