Writing

I write fiction and non-fiction, and have done since I could hold a pen.

I am primarily an essayist and critic, 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, 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.

I am open for commission to review any books on internet culture and technology, early modern history, the history of science, medicine, and food, and health and wellness.

Selected publications below.

‘What does the food of the future look like?’ (Dazed, 2025)

‘The Caryatid Manifesto’ (Still Point London, 2025)

‘Proletarians of the Screen’ Review of Joanna Walsh’s Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters (LARB, 2025)

‘At the Desk’ Review of Katie da Cunha Lewin’s The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds that Shape the Books We Love (Review31, 2025)

‘Tuck In’ Review of Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now (LARB, 2025)

‘Viral Language’ Review of Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak (LARB, 2025)

‘Don’t Be Evil?’ Review of Vauhini Vara’s Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age (Review31, 2025)

‘Sauce Material’: History as Recipe and Cooking For the Dead (death kit #1, 2025; Print)

‘Late Michelangelo’ (Oxford Review of Books, Summer 2025; Print)

Down the Rabbit Hole (The London Magazine, April-May, 2025; Print)

‘We are Never Well, nor Can Be So’ Review of Caroline Crampton’s A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria (LARB, 2025)

Review: Helen King’s Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the history of women’s bodies (Institute of Historical Research, 2025)

SEA GLASS(ES), my pamphlet bringing together two essays on memory, travel, and physical and mental space is now available from Tallfinger Press (Print, 2024)

Scribbling Girls (Atmospheric Quarterly, 2024)

Review: Lynn Schmeidler’s Half Lives (Necessary Fiction, 2024)

Reflection (Leon Literary Review, 2024) Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

The Short Story (Lunate Magazine, 2023)

TICK TOCK (Oxford Review of Books, 2021)

Select publications

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