I have a degree with First Class Honours in Creative Writing and English from the University of Melbourne (2013). I studied Literary Fictions and Creative Nonfiction at the Paris-American Academy in France in 2011 and twentieth-century British and Irish Literature at the University of Edinburgh in 2017.
My Honours thesis was about repression and passivity in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.
Writing Awards and Fellowships
In 2016, I was awarded a two-week Residential Fellowship at Varuna, The National Writers House for a contemporary Young Adult novel.
I was also one of eleven writers selected by the Australian Society of Authors for their Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Mentorship Program in 2017 where I was mentored for one year by award-winning crime author Garry Disher.
I specialise in website copywriting, product and sales copywriting, blog posts and marketing copywriting. I have also produced SEO copy, digital advertising copy, social media content and eDMs.
I have worked in the museum sector for over a decade and have co-written and edited a range of programming content in both written and video format for Museums Victoria. From online science quizzes to children’s mindfulness videos, digital art classes to What’s On brochures, I have developed a strong ability to tailor my writing to suit multiple formats, styles and audiences.
I regularly write pre-publication book reviews and author Q&As for the Books+Publishing website and have also reviewed for Archer. I have written features for The Lifted Brow and the Melbourne lifestyle city guide, Broadsheet.
I have written several feature pieces for the Museums Victoria website, including the digital showcases Kodak Snapshots and One Year On: Stories of COVID-19 in Melbourne’s Suburbs.
I am a competent copyeditor and proofreader. I have interned for Broadsheet and The Lifted Brow, where I gained valuable editorial training alongside interviewing and feature-writing experience.
I also worked in-house for the independent publisher Melbourne Books as a publicist and social media manager. Being a small team of four people, I helped proofread and copyedit select manuscripts, as well as read and assess publisher submissions.
Teaching Experience
In my six-year role as a Learning Facilitator at Melbourne Museum, I have taught primary, secondary and adult education programs about Melbourne history, First Peoples of south-east Victoria, dinosaurs, bugs, volcanoes, geology and digital art. I also worked as a one-on-one English tutor for French teenagers while living in Paris in 2011.
My particular focus when tutoring is to keep things fun, focused and relaxed. I aim to make complex information accessible by connecting it to the student's own interests and passions, always taking diverse learning needs into account.
Images:
Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft, The Music Room of Fanny Hansel (née Mendelssohn) (1849)
Abbot Handerson Thayer, Peacock in the Woods (1907)
Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon (1930)
Child Hassam, The South Ledges, Appledore (1913)
Clarence H. White, Rest Hour (Columbia Teacher's College) (1912)
H. Lymen Saÿen, Child On Sofa (1914)
*All images sourced from the Smithsonian Institute Open Access Media
I acknowledge the Bunurong and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as being the first and ongoing storytellers, artists, scientists and educators of the sacred lands and waterways on which I write and live. I pay my respects to their elders, past and present. These lands remain unceded.
