Writing
I write fiction and non-fiction, and have done since I could hold a pen.
I am primarily an essayist and reviewer, and write twenty-first century demoniac, a Substack blog which takes a closer look at what we’re missing when we get stuck in a doomscroll. My work is concerned with art, power, memory, the internet, and our imaginings of the body across time. I’m currently interested in analysing body-management practices and the wellness industry, through a critical feminist lens. Selected publications below.
My pamphlet SEA GLASS(ES), which brings together two essays on memory, travel, and both physical and mental space is now available from Tallfinger Press in December 2024.
Review: Caroline Crampton’s A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria (LARB, Forthcoming 2025)
Review: Helen King’s Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the history of women’s bodies (Institute of Historical Research, Forthcoming 2025)
communication through consumption: the cult of the new fun drink (Substack, 2024)
twee utopias: on comfort culture’s reactionary fantasies (Substack, 2024)
a radical aesthetics: reflections on Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo (Substack, 2024)
soft power americana: digital hegemony & the americanisation of the internet (Substack, 2024)
Scribbling Girls (Atmospheric Quarterly, 2024)
Reflection (Leon Literary Review, 2024) Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
in search of cool: who is the literary it girl and why should we care? (Substack, 2024)
The Short Story (Lunate Magazine, 2023)
the modern myth of the divine feminine: divine bullshit and the threat to feminism (Substack, 2023)