Words
Writing is part of the practice. Poems, stories, plays, critical work written by hand in the cave.
Recent News
Finalist 2025 Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction for ‘Folklore Beginnings for Horror Writers’ (Australasian Shadows)
Bram Stoker Award committee, Long Non-Fiction Jury, 2026
‘Meat-waves’ published in Saturday Mourning Television, ed. Ben Walker (Sliced Up Press, 2026)
‘Midnight Broth’ published in Let the Right One Simmer, Volume 1 (Campfire Publishing, 2026)
Winner 2024 Robert N. Stephenson Award for Everyday Red
Shortlisted 2024 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award for Everybody’s Uncle (The Comstock Review)
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, ed. Ben Walker. 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
2026 — ‘Midnight Broth’, Let the Right One Simmer, Volume 1. 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
2025 — ‘Folklore Beginnings for Horror Writers’, Midnight Echo 20. AHWA
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