Hello.

I am a writer living on the unceded lands of the Bunurong People. I live in a place so small it’s only got one road, and it ends at a cliff.

I write essays on literature and multispecies death, queer embodiment, strange weather, ignored histories, and on reading and writing as worlds end and begin again.

My first book, Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the dead, was published by Upswell in 2023. It has been shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize.

I’ve published work in The Sydney Review of Books, The Monthly, The Lifted Brow, Lit Hub, Writing from Below, Cordite Poetry Review, Art + Australia. I’ve also performed my work for The Melbourne Writers Festival Animal Church, The Emerging Writers Festival Late Night Literature, Slow Canoe, Beechworth Winter Words, and as part of the inaugural Queer Victoria Festival of Words, Q Lit.

Right now, I am working on a book that imagines queer desire as a force of history.  

I’m grateful to have received funding from Creative Victoria to support the early development of this work.

Previously, I’ve received funding from ARC Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Culture and Animals Foundation and the Felix Meyer Travelling Scholarship for Creative Writing.

I teach creative nonfiction and environmental writing at the University of Melbourne. For me, teaching, like writing, is about thinking deeply and carefully, out loud, with many voices.

Portrait 2016 thanks to photographer and friend Charlie Kinross.