She is co-editor of poetry magazine Rain Dog and is one of the founders of Manchester’s A6 poets. In 1997 her pamphlet Shrink was a winner in The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. Her full length collection The Barking Thing was published by Bloodaxe in June 2007. Currently she is working on her second collection and a long poem for theatre. She has many poems published in anthologies and magazines, and regularly performs her work in Manchester and further afield. She teaches creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University and leads workshops including one for Commonword’s Northern Gay Writers in Manchester.