I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter.

My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015.

In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer.

The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, is published by Blue Diode Publishing.

My current research project, with Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories.