Hello.

I am a writer living and working on the sovereign, 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.

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.

Right now, I am working on a book called Private Feelings. It is conceived as a postmortem portrait of two women whose lives keep receding from history.

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

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 teach creative nonfiction 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.