About Me

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I’m a writer of speculative and weird fiction. I’ve written two novels for children: Dreamdogs, which was joint winner of the 2021 Bath Children’s Novel Award, and Devil-Glass, which was longlisted for the 2020 Mslexia Children’s & YA Novel Competition. In 2018 I received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, and I’ve also been shortlisted for the 2020 Kelpies Prize for Writing.  I love ghost stories, comic books, vintage cameras and abandoned buildings, and I live and work in Scotland.

I’m now focused on writing adult fiction. Current projects include Ice Machina, a steampunk Arctic horror novel, and a series of short stories exploring an otherworldly pandemic.

If you’d like to get in touch, the details are on my Contact page.