Words
Writing is part of the practice. Poems, stories, plays, critical work written by hand in the cave.
Recent News
Winner 2024 Robert N. Stephenson Award for Everyday Red
Shortlisted 2024 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award for Everybody’s Uncle (The Comstock Review)
Two prints (Crop Circles & Lake Tuggeranong) showing at Megalo Wayzgoose Exhibition, until January 2026
The Bloofy Lady’s Circuit, mixed-media work using found materials, in Subcultures at Belconnen Arts Centre. Curated by Red Saunders. Until February 2026
Meat-waves forthcoming in Saturday Mourning Television (Sliced Up Press)
Page to Pulse: A Guide to Mass Hysteria for Writers — now out
Spirit Level: Strange Tools & Story, artist book collaboration with Kaaron Warren & Ellen Datlow. Dark Cave Press
Selected Works
Books & Collections
2025 — Page to Pulse: A Guide to Mass Hysteria for Writers. Dark Cave Press
2025 — Spirit Level: Strange Tools & Story, with Kaaron Warren & Ellen Datlow. Dark Cave Press
2024 — ‘Distaff/Rock’ in Oystercatcher: 101 Poems, ed. Steve Meyrick. 5 Islands Press
2022 — Girl+dog investigate: The Wound. A True Field Report. Dark Cave Press
2019 — Everyday Words: Ten Australian Poets, with Jen Webb. Puncher & Wattman
2018 — Creativity in Context: How to Make a Poet, with Jen Webb. Recent Work Press
2017 — Isolator. Recent Work Press
2015 — Swipe, with Caren Florance. Ampersand Duck
Poetry
2026 — ‘Meat-waves’, Saturday Mourning Television. Sliced Up Press
2025 — ‘Never said’, Never Say Die Anthology. CSFG Press
2025 — ‘Everyday Red’, Midnight Echo 20. AHWA
2024 — ‘Everybody’s Uncle’, The Comstock Review 38.2
2020 — ‘The Dress of my Drowning’, Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry. Melbourne University Press
2019 — ‘Spine’, Otoliths
2017 — ‘Bow & Stern’, Westerly
2008 — ‘Autumn in Canberra’, Poetry in ACTION. ACT Government
Stories
2025 — ‘Midnight Broth’, Let The Right One Simmer. Campfire Publishing
2025 — ‘Brink’, The Call Anthology. KSP Writers Centre
2024 — ‘Buy Sell Swap’, Chroma. South Coast Writers Centre
2014 — ‘individual tax return instructions’, The Grapple Annual. Grapple Publishing
2003 — ‘Special Foldings’, HQ Magazine. ACP
Stage & Audio
2023 — Enjoy The Show, dir. Lexi Sekuless. Mill Theatre, Canberra
2023 — More Light, More Light. Canberra Theatre Centre
2023 — Don’t Talk, prod. Bart Meehan. ArtSound FM
2022 — Sweet Spot, dir. Sophie Bayliss. Blackbox Theatre, Illawarra
2009 — The Teller. Cleveland Street Theatre, Redfern
Critical Work
2023 — ‘The Knowing of Artists’ Books’, in JAB Anthology, ed. Drucker & Freeman. University of Iowa Press
2018 — ‘Given in the Flesh: A phenomenology of handedness through Erika Mordek’s bookwork’, Axon 8.1
2017 — ‘Defiant formlessness: prose poem as process’, with Jen Webb. TEXT 46
2016 — ‘A Visual Tone Poem Exploring the Conservatism of Contemporary Data Visualisation in Poetry’, Axon Capsule 1
2014 — ‘Write this down’, in Creative Manoeuvres. Cambridge Scholars