I’m a Scottish poet/writer living in Australia with my French chain smoking husband.  ‘a brief letter to the sea about a couple of things’ is my third poetry collection.  ‘the lactic acid in the calves of your despair’ was long listed for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2021. My first collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’ was published in 2018. My first book, a memoir, ‘poking seaweed with a stick & running away from the smell’was launched at Sydney Writers Festival and published to critical acclaim in Australia and the UK. A few years later, after an abrupt life lesson, I took the decision to give up my spectacularly boring day job in order to write full-time. I’m currently working on my second memoir and other, you know, stuff.