This is me. I’m a novelist, short-story writer, and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. Please note, I’m not as austere as the photograph implies, but I have heaps of smile lines and I’m horrifically vain.

My early days: 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 and around Toronto. Since then, I’ve spent time studying and/or struggling to survive in Canada, the US, Japan, France and Switzerland. In the end, I landed back in the UK, where I’m writing this.

Everything above influences my writing. Concepts of hybridity—in terms of identity and literary form—are present in much of my work. Since this paragaph is the one trying to sound respectable, some 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 appeared in the Stinging Fly, the Normal School, Litro Magazine, the New Orleans Review, the Raleigh Review, and elsewhere. My novels for children and young adults have won awards in Canada, the US, and Germany. These inlcude Zorgamazoo, Dust City, Blues for Zoey, and others.

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