This is me.

This is my genesis: I was born in Dover, on the chalky south coast of England, to a Grenadian/Indian mother and English/Turkish father and, sometime later, did the majority of my growing up in Canada. Since then, I’ve spent time living, studying, working, and rambling in Canada, the US, Japan, France, Switzerland, and the UK—where I’m writing this.

These are my writerly credentials: I have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. My fiction has been heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour and has appeared, or will soon appear, in The Stinging Fly, The Normal School, Litro Magazine, New Orleans Review, Raleigh Review, and others. I’ve also published a number of internationally award-winning novels for children and young adult. These include Zorgamazoo, Dust City, Blues for Zoey, and others.

These are my current digs: I lecture in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln, where I’m Faculty Fiction Editor of the Lincoln Review.

You can find me, occasionally, on Twitter (X), Instagram, and Goodreads.

For rights inquires, please contact my literary agency, Westwood Creative Artists.