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About Me

I am a mathematician and writer, currently revising my first novel. I live in Perth, Western Australia, on Noongar boodja.

I acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians of this country, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. I recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Noongar people, their continuing culture and the contribution they make to life in this beautiful part of the world.

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The Track

What would you do if your perfect life collapsed?

Lee’s boyfriend dumps her and her new boss makes her life miserable, so she quits. Desperate to find a new purpose in life, she decides to hike the Bibbulmun Track, a thousand kilometre walking trail through the south-west of Western Australia. Her brand-new boots carry her along a wind-swept coastline and through ancient forests, but ultimately Lee is on a journey to self-discovery.

Read more about my first novel, currently in revision with publication in late 2025.

Microfiction

Bad Atheist

Cranked Anvil Press Fiction 1-2-3, 20 Feb 2025

Wild Waters

Bright Flash Literary Review, 3 Feb 2025

Duplicity

50-Word Stories, 24 Jan 2025

How to Darn a Sock

Wordrunner eChapbooks Micro-Prose Issue 2, 24 Jan 2025

I Drink My Tea Black Now

50 Give or Take, 23 Dec 2024

Release

Punk Noir Magazine, 22 Jul 2024

Samsara

50-Word Stories, 29 May 2024

Better?

50-Word Stories, 4 Apr 2024

When she told me she’d wait for me

Paragraph Planet, 11 Feb 2024

Don’t Look Back

50 Give or Take, 19 Jan 2024

Monkey Magic

50-Word Stories, 27 November 2023

To The Widower Next Door

50-Word Stories, 23 May 2023

Suffocation

50-Word Stories, 14 Mar 2023

Love Blooms and Dies But Never Fades

Friday Flash Fiction, 6 Jan 2023

Wallflower

Friday Flash Fiction, 30 Dec 2022

A Murder on the Wing

50-Word Stories, 1 Aug 2022

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Paragraph Planet, 19 Jul 2022

Wendy

Nanoism, 29 Jun 2022

When I quit my toxic job to find something better

Six Sentences, 18 Jun 2022

Bittersweet

Microfiction Monday, 30 May 2022

Haiku and Poetry

Desert Sky

Echidna Tracks, 31 Mar 2025

Stray Thought

Creatrix 68, 3 Mar 2025

failed haiku

failed haiku 108, 28 Feb 2025

Haiku Poet Word Search

Haiku Poet Word Search, 25 Jan 2025

Artichoke Heart

Haiku Down Under Anthology - “A Sensory Journey”, 4 Dec 2024

Cumulus Clouds

Creatrix 67, 26 Nov 2024

Summer Romance

Daily Haiga, 17 Mar 2024

balga tree

Echidna Tracks, 15 Feb 2024

Desert Rainstorm

Under The Same Moon, Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, 1 Sep 2023

desert rainstorm

tinywords, 21 Oct 2022

Flow

The Drabble, 26 Sep 2022

Flash Fiction

Darkside

Haunted Words Press, 1 Jul 2022

Creative Nonfiction

Mind Games

fiveminutelit, 12 Sep 2023

Recent Posts

Story of the Month

I received an email from Tim at 50-Word Stories today, saying that Duplicity has won the story of the month and I will receive the CAD$10 prize. The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

17 Feb 2025 1 min read Dribble

Anti Haiku

Duck & Dash Poetry recently ran an Anti Haiku competition. The rules were simple: Maximum 5 entries per person Poets in WA only Anti Haiku must be the author’s original and unpublished work ONLY Work should be appropriate to share in a public forum Each Anti Haiku poem must be 1-6 lines long (including title and any spaces between lines) Each Anti Haiku poem must have a maximum of 40 total counts of both syllables and punctuations Poet’s were encouraged to interpret haiku and anti haiku as they liked, picking and choosing which haiku aesthetics to keep or reject.

22 Jan 2025 1 min read Haiku

Highly Commended Haiku

The Haiku on Hay Poetry Competition was run by the City of Perth Library in conjunction with the 2024 Perth Poetry Festival. I was thrilled to be awarded a Highly Commended Certificate for my haiku:

1 Sep 2024 1 min read Haiku

Haiku

It’s a little while since this was published but I remain delighted to be included with so many delightful and thought-provoking haiku in the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology. It’s been sitting on my bedside table for some time and I’ve never regretted picking it up and opening a page at random.

9 Dec 2023 1 min read Haiku

March Wins

My goal is to submit at least one piece every month. In March, I submitted three tiny stories (two drabbles and a seven-word story), a piece of creative non finction (CNF) and a poem.

29 Mar 2023 2 min read Writing