Staff profile

I studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design and at Royal Holloway UOL, before completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2012. I have published four poetry collections with Faber & Faber, 81 Austerities (2012), Kim Kardashian’s Marriage (2015), After Fame (2020), and Conflicted Copy (2024); my fifth collection, Mirrors for Princes (2025), is published by After Hours Ltd in the USA. A book of experimental prose, Safe Mode, was published by Test Centre in 2017, and my first novel, Dead Souls, was published in 2021, by W&N in the UK and Catapult in the USA. I am interested in small presses and have published several limited-edition poetry titles, including Standard Twin Fantasy (Egg Box, 2014), True Colours (After Hours, 2016), and Old Poem (A6 Books, 2019). From 2015–2017 I was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Edinburgh, and since 2015 I have run the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press, which has released over 100 titles to date.

• My research interests include contemporary poetry and ‘post-internet’ poetics, found text and appropriation, conceptual writing, small presses and innovative publishing, form and procedure in poetry and prose, imitation and plagiarism, autofiction and experimental fiction, book arts, and post-digital publishing and writing generally, especially the effects of technology on literary style, genre and form.

• 2018: Collyer Bristow Prize for Debut Fiction (shortlist): for Safe Mode
• 2017: Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize (shortlist): for Kim Kardashian's Marriage
• 2017: Society of Authors’ Authors’ Foundation grant: for work in progress
• 2017: Hawthornden Fellowship: from the Hawthornden Trust
• 2012: Forward Prize for Best First Collection: for 81 Austerities
• 2011: UEA Graduate School: Public Engagement Prize
• 2010: Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice: for Faber New Poets 7
• 2009: Eric Gregory Award: from the Society of Authors
• 2008: AHRC full award for research: 2008–2011