This is me. I’m a novelist, short-story writer, and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. 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 most of my growing up southern Ontario, Canada. Since then, I’ve spent life studying, travelling 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.

I’m currently based in Lincoln, where I live with my partner, the artist and set designer, Machiko Weston, whose website will forever say “coming soon” because, unlike the rest of us, she’s too well-respected to bother with an online presence. Me, on the other hand…

My writing has been heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour and has appeared, or will soon appear, in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Stinging Fly, The Normal School, Litro Magazine, The New Orleans Review, The Vassar Review, and elsewhere. My novels for children and young adults have won awards in Canada, the US, and Germany, and include Zorgamazoo, Dust City, Blues for Zoey, and others.

Find me (occasionally) on Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, Twitter (“X”), and Goodreads.

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