I've scooped ice cream, cut hair, studied the human mind and trod the boards with a touring theatre company. I backpacked my way through Mexico, Southeast Asia and Australia before the internet, email and smart phones. Just me, a guidebook and the hope that the next bus would show up. It made me resourceful. It also meant I was gloriously uncontactable. No notifications. No news. No one asking where I was. Heaven.

Later, I spent thirty years serving coffee in the clouds with a major British airline. I became an expert at smiling through turbulence. My first novel, Purple, was written during the jet-lagged hours in hotel rooms from Bangkok to Boston. In 2020, I finally swapped the runway for the writing desk to focus full-time on storytelling.

Now I live in the historic town of Shrewsbury with my husband. I write every day, love hiking, cooking and spending time with friends. I believe in the quiet power of being kind. I care deeply about equal rights and love stories that show the world from an alternative viewpoint.

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My latest short story, Sea Change, is published in Queer Life, Queer Love Vol. 3 (Muswell Press). It’s drawn from the opening chapters of my nearly-complete second novel, Cakewalking, an auto-fictional coming-of-age book set 1970s & 1980s Britain.