University of London, Birkbeck College

Faculty Member, English and Humanities

About

I teach creative writing (drama & fiction), and comparative literature. My research interests are language and the body, postmodernism, modernism, gender, sexuality, erotic literature, philosophy, art, the avant garde.

My first novel, "London Triptych" was published August 2010 (Myriad Editions).
It was shortlisted for the inaugural Green Carnation Prize and won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. It has also been shortlisted for the Polari Prize.

An extract is available in the online LGBT fiction journal, Polari
http://www.polarijournal.com/

and another extract and an article here:

http://www.writershub.co.uk/


My second book, 'Twentysix', is out Nov 3rd 2011. It is a meditation on sex and language in the tradition of Genet, Bataille, Acker.