I write poetry, middle-grade fiction, short stories and historical fiction.

I write not-so-cozy crime.

I have a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in English Literature and History),

a Graduate Diploma in Applied Computing, a Masters in Accounting, and I'm a graduate of the UQ WEP program with a

Graduate Certificate in Arts (Writing, Editing and Publishing).

I play a ferocious game of scrabble and I'm an indifferent ironer, but I can restring a pull-start lawnmower and I once built a brick wall that was only slightly out of whack.

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I've had a few stories & poems published over the years, including:

 

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The Garden Fork Murder, winner of the 2020 Scarlet Stiletto Malice Domestic category award, published by Clandestine Press 2020

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The Pig of Lead, a short story in my amateur detective series, published by Jellyfish Press, 2021

 

The Meddlesome Matron, an amateur detective novelette published by Camden Park Press (USA) in 2020

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Hell's Gate, an historical short story set in Tasmania, which came runner-up in the Tasmanian Writers Prize some years ago (2018?) and was published by Forty South Publishing

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The Lesson in the Lens, a spooky mystery set in an abandoned lighthouse, published by Stringybark Publishing in 2017

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The Players, a poem which won (in the dim mists of time) a Queensland poetry competition judged by Bruce Dawe and published (I think) by the DDIAE (now University of Southern Queensland)

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