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What I do

My work moves between individual experience and collective patterns. I believe in the power of stories to heal differences and foster mutual understanding.

Creative Practice

As a writer, I explore questions of belonging, migration and the ethics of representation. I am interested in the tensions between language and experience—what can be said, and what resists articulation.

Sector Development

I support artists and arts organisations through mentoring, collaboration and shared learning, with a focus on sustaining creative practice over time. I teach at Cardiff Metropolitan University and represent authors on the Society of Authors Cymru Committee.

Cultural Resilience

I support the development of the arts sector as Head of Arts for charity Arts & Business Cymru and as Advisory Board Member for Folding Rock Magazine. I am passionate about increasing the visibility of new and existing talents, nationally and internationally. I wish to contribute to a more transparent, resilient and sustainable cultural ecosystem.

My Personal Journey

A migrant from a diasporic family, I am drawn to the spaces where different worlds meet. I spent two decades working in campaigning and education before becoming a writer. My work is deeply shaped by migration, motherhood and multiculturalism, or what I coined in my academic research Identité-mosaique,

the positive accumulation that happens as we traverse space and time and which renders our identity fluid and borderless, untethered from the socio-political constructs of the nation-state, instead deeply steeped in creativity, imagination and what James Clifford called travel as culture.

I am guided by an ethics of social witnessing and much of what I write is concerned with connection: how relationships are built, how understanding is shaped, and how ideas move into action.

Writing, for me, is a tool to erase boundaries. As we engage with new characters, we share, connect and empathise with the lives of others and grow our mutual understanding.