Hello and welcome!

I love telling stories, and I’m chuffed that I get to do it as a job.

I grew up deep in the inner-city, so my pandemic-fuelled move to the country felt like a giant leap. Now regional living has become part of my identity and I don’t think I’ll ever look back. 

Outside city limits I’ve discovered a world of creative country folk with exciting tales to tell. I’m gathering them up with glee, and spending my days pitching (and pitching and pitching and pitching…) to a range of beautiful regional publications. 

My freelance feature writing appears in print for Australian Country, Women’s Weekly, Country Style and Bush Journal, and online for ABC, Peppermint, The Local Rag and Daily Review, among others.

I’m co-writing the hardcover book MY TOWN, a study of north-western Victorian town Gisborne and its people, with fellow writer and friend Kat Buttigieg, due in 2026. My words appear in BUSH WISDOM, an anthology published in 2024 by Affirm Press. And I’m the writer of Pip Williams’ photography book, IN LOVE, OUT BUSH, published in 2024 by Bush Journal.

I write the free fortnightly Substack newsletter Woman of a Certain Age, exploring ageing, fear-facing and the passing of time.

As an audio producer, I’ve created occasional audio stories for ABC Radio National’s documentary programs The History Listen and Earshot, exploring history, identity and gender.

From 2022 to 2025 I founded and ran the copywriting studio Small Town Writing Co., helping bold brands tell their stories. I continue to craft copy for selected clients under my own name from 2025, specialising in editorial-style articles, web copy and video scripts.

In my first career as a filmmaker, I worked for about 15 years with big brands and businesses on corporate communications, and on the sets of local and international film and TV productions. Meanwhile my own short films and documentaries screened at fancy film festivals around the world, garnering two international awards and several nominations. I participated in Melbourne International Film Festival’s prestigious Accelerator program in 2012 with my short film SWITCH, and completed two directing attachments, on NEIGHBOURS in 2011 and OFFSPRING in 2012. My films are now archived.

There was also a time when I dabbled in theatre, with short plays published and staged in Melbourne, Sydney and Edinburgh.

I have a Graduate Diploma in Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies), both from RMIT.

The rest of the time, I’m a bit of a bird-watcher, a rabid reader, a podcast devourer, a social media-phobe, a lazy yogi, an Oxford comma fan, and a very slow runner.