Selected Work

Creative

Wasafiri - ‘Past Continuous'’

Propel - ‘Moths’

The Poetics of Touch: reading/workshop at Memory Studies Association Conference, Lima

Rise Up!: reading with Anthony V Capildeo and Rebecca Drake, York

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Anthology - ‘Instructions’ (shortlisted)

Perverse Mag - ‘A Short Talk on Starfish’

Lilies and Brambles: reading at University of York

Forward Book of Poetry 2023 - ‘Mixed Other’ (highly commended)

European Poetry Festival, York - ‘Hephaestus’

Butcher’s Dog (18) - ‘and still the roof’

Ambit 244 issue launch reading

Ambit - ‘Instructions for Writing to Your Sister’

The Poetry Review - ‘Mixed Other’

‘Vertigo’, longlisted — National Poetry Competition (2021)

‘Lizard Love Letters’, longlisted — Mslexia Poetry Competition (2020)

Academic

Reading Frictions: Memory, Violence, and The Politics of Touch in Contemporary World Literature (forthcoming, Bloomsbury)

‘Decolonial Feminisms: Reading Otherwise’, special issue of parallax, ed. with Ruth Daly.

‘“Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media”: Contingent Curation, Archival Absences, Frictional Relations’, 2023, special issue of Women’s History Review (ed. by Jane Freeland & Christina von Hodenberg)

‘Otherwise Worlds: Technotouch in Afrofuturist Film’, 2023, special issue of the Senses and Society (ed. by Amelia DeFalco and Luna Dolezal)

'Moving archives, touch, and world literary melancholy in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian’, in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (joint winner 2020 JPW / Postcolonial Studies Association Postgraduate Essay Prize)

‘Subjunctive Remembering; Contingent Resistance: Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther’, in Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990 (edited by J. Skolnik, E. Gezen, & P. Layne), Berghahn Books.

Other Essays, Interviews & Reviews

’A Future of Our Own Making': In Conversation with Anthony V Capildeo and Yousif M Qasmiyeh

'The Messiness of Our Aliveness’: A Conversation with Sanah Ahsan and Gargi Bhattacharyya

Writing Whiteness: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine

'“There are no other people”: A Conversation with Katja Petrowskaja

Writing, Rights and Refugees: A Conversation with Lyndsey Stonebridge

Writing Violence: An interview with Katja Petrowskaja

Review Essay: The Future Perfect

Essay: Dystopian Motherhood

Review: Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

The Art of Witnessing: Son of Saul

Impunity, Fear and Filmmaking: Joshua Oppenheimer’s Documentaries

Poetry and Performance: An Interview with Kayo Chingonyi

Poetry, Feminism and the Politics of Translation: An Interview with Sophie Collins

The Past is Never Dead: An Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer