Writing Selection
The Complicated History of ‘Little House’ and Why We Can’t Stop Resettling the West – Teen Vogue
Where is the River – Panorama, The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature
A New Mourning: Remembrance Day for Lost Species – Undark
Pillow Talk – Necessary Fiction
Pests? Pets? How Language Changes Our Perception of Animals | How We Get To Next
Articles in The Independent, Huffpost, Mother Jones, Litro…
Academic work
Selected conference presentations
“Reinforcing the Story of White American Identity”, Salzburg English Conference: History up for debate – Literature and the Imagined Past, July 2026
“The Stale Nostalgia of the New ‘Heritage Americans,” Conference: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, University of Northampton, June 2026
“Discovering Whiteness in the Mirror: An exploration of white writing on race,” IABA Conference: Life Writing, and Social Transformation, University of Coimbra, Portugal, June 2025.
“A Fragmented Frontier: A White Descendant’s Family Perspective,” IABA Conference: Fragmented Lives, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2024
The Invisible Frontier: A White Descendant’s Family Perspective, Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture, University of Alcala, Spain, June 2023.
“Blinded by the Sunbonnet: The Long Shadow of the Pioneer Myth on American
Womanhood” (2022), Womanhood(s) in the United States: Cultural, Social, and Political Conflict in Achieving Equality since the 1920s, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, May 2022.
Degree
PhD in Creative Writing University of Bristol, Creative Writing (2025).
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Editor, Flash fiction/non-fiction – Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature