I am a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. 

I write literary essays, fiction, journalism, academic books about Shakespeare and Renaissance culture (botany, medicine, theology, politics), and critical editions of novels by the forgotten women of the Catholic Literary Revival.

In Cambridge, I teach English Literature and represent the University on the BBC / Cambridge National Short Story Award.

My agent is Anna Power at Johnson & Alcock. I am working on book-length projects, both fiction and non-fiction. 

'Treasure', Hinterland 10 (2022), nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2023

'Idolatry' Shortlisted for the Royal Literary Society V.S Pritchett Prize (2021) and the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Award (2022)

'Green', HOWL (2022), nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2023

'The Tree That Grows Forever', Dappled Things (2022)

My agent is Anna Power at Johnson & Alcock

The Dry Wood, Caryll Houselander (CUA)

The End of The House of Alard, Sheila Kaye-Smith (CUA)

One Poor Scruple, Josephine Ward (CUA)

Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press)

Blood Matters (Penn University Press)

Cambridge Handbook to Literature and Plants (out soon)

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare’s England (out soon)