About me:
I am an Australian freelance writer and emerging author; Martu descendent living on Kaurna country.

In December 2013, I self-published my debut novel When Rosa Came Home, which was short-listed for the 2015 South Australian Readers and Writers People's Choice Award. 

My just-completed manuscript, Where the Fruit Falls, was short-listed for the 2017 Richell Prize. This novel explores themes such as identity, colonisation and racism in 1950-70s Australia.

This manuscript was also accepted into the 2018 Hardcopy professional development program for Australian writers. I was awarded the inaugural Indigenous scholarship to participate in this program. And was later accepted in to Hardcopy part two, where I met with various agents and publishers to get industry feedback on this manuscript. 

I was able to finish this manuscript after a Writers SA writer retreat. As part of their writers in remote communities, I spent a month in Ceduna meeting writers and readers, as well as working on my writing.

In addition to writing fiction, I sometimes add to my blog and write non-fiction pieces. I have had work published in Al Jazeera, IndigenousX, NITV, Meanjin and Guardian Australia. See links on my blog and muck rack page.

My current writing goals are:

• Find an agent and/or publisher for my draft novel - Where the Fruit Falls.
• Finish writing the dark comedy novella - Dingo Creek Literary Festival.
• Develop a series of novelettes - The Cosmographer's Brother, The Last Dodo's Cousin and The Siren's Sister - to be collectively be called Bestiarium Terra Nullius: peculiar beings of uninhabited southern lands. 
• More opinion pieces and educative works, to post here and on my blog.

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