About Me
I’m a journalist and writer working across print, digital and social media.
I cut my teeth on a local London newspaper before several years of work on trade press news desks. I now work between London and Brighton, writing profiles, first-person essays, features and arts reviews for newspapers and magazines. I’m also Senior Editor of The Violet Book.
My work has been published in The New York Times, The Times, Stylist, The Big Issue, Psychologies, Raconteur, Refinery29, Grazia, Time Out London, Wonderland, SUITCASE, Flow, Courier and numerous B2B titles. In 2018 I was shortlisted for The Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. In 2022 I was longlisted for The Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize.
I write Emotional Labour, a monthly interview series talking to people about their emotions and how they impact their work. You can read Emotional Labour here.
As a panellist, I’ve guested on BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Gemma Cairney’s The Fox Problem live podcast on how to pitch stories and how to start your own independent magazine.
I have carried out one-to-one, group coaching and Instagram Live sessions on breaking into journalism for charities and organisations including Breakthrough Festival, Arts Emergency and PressPad.
I really, really want more people from low-income or underrepresented backgrounds to be working in the journalism industry, so I’m a trained mentor for charity Arts Emergency and for The Second Source, a scheme run by female journalists in the British media to help other women develop their writing careers.
B&W Photograph by Amelia Allen