Publications and Other Work
I write young adult (YA) fantasy novels and speculative fiction short stories. I have also assisted the research on documentaries, presented original research on multimodality, digital creative writing, and the autobiographical poem genre, and have just completed my doctorate in fine art at the University of Glasgow.
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ChronotypeEach of the crow's memories commands a different price. Which memories will you collect?
A Bitsy game developed for the GIFCon 2022 workshop 'Small Tools, Small Games, Small Memories' facilitated by Fruzsina Pittner. (2022) |
The Comments SectionThis experimental near-future science fiction piece captures that strangest of ecosystems: an online comments section.
Out now in Issue #1 of Archive of the Odd, this piece was inspired in part by the research of Dr Victoria Shropshire. (2022) |
Leaf GlacierThis science fiction short story was published in the Triangulation: Habitats anthology.
A young engineer eager to prove herself gets called out to a malfunctioning leaf glacier in the middle of the desert. (2021) |
The Fairy Ring Dance: A Perpetual CanonThis interactive, animated, anagrammatic (a mouthful, I know, but trust me it's worth it!) hypertext fantasy poem was inspired by Bogi Takács's "You Are Here" and is out now in Through the Gate.
Night approaches, and the fairies are calling. Will you join the midnight pollination dance? (2019) |
TarThis science fiction short story was published in Volume 14, Issue 2 of Electric Spec.
A temporary android replacement, or tar, is faced with the human woman she was meant to replace. (2019) |
This Crated Sense of AnxietyThis light fantasy short story is written in the style of a long-form journalism piece and was published in the Spring 2019 issue of The Colored Lens.
50 years after Undipetra, four survivors reflect on the riot that started a revolution. (2019) |
Freedom and the Blade DancerFreedom is a witch in training trying to help as many people as she can during the Great Pestilence. Along with her anima and friend, the dragonknight Eduir, she discovers that there's more than just the Black Death killing people in the village.
Published in Volume 9, Issue 12 of Aurora Wolf. (2018) |
It Came from the Future! Integrating Digital Tools and Social Media into the ClassroomFor the Digital Humanities Conference at Eötvös Loránd University, I facilitated a three-hour, mulitmodal, interactive workshop which integrated creative play with digital tools for creative writing, demonstrating for other teachers and educators how to incorporate the method into their own classrooms.
Co-facilitator Victoria Shropshire was unable to attend, although she and I collaborated on the design and implementation of the workshop. (2018) |
Our Castles Are Different: An Analysis of Fantasy Settings in Young-Adult Portal-QuestsPresented at Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place at the University of Nottingham, this hybrid presentation combined an examination of the Eurocentric, pseudo-mediaeval, and cisheteronormative tendencies in the secondary worlds of portal-quest fantasies with a reading from my novel, in which I attempt to break that pattern.
My trip was generously funded by the Orientations conference travel bursary. (2018) |
So Much More than Selfies: Twitter for Publication and #OwnVoices NarrativesPresented at the International Conference on Education Research and Policy in Beijing, China, this paper co-authored with fellow researcher and writer Victoria Shropshire explored the power of autoethnographic microfiction to get students of all disciplines writing and publishing their own fiction.
My trip was generously funded by The Fran Trust of Foundation Scotland. The paper was published in the International Journal of Information and Education Technology. (2018) |
Exeunt Stage Left, Pursued by the Patriarchy: Young Women Protagonists in Portal-Quest FantasiesPresented at the Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations conference at the University of Glasgow, my research compared the roles assigned (or, less frequently, chosen) by young women protagonists in portal-quest fantasies as well as the secondary worlds of those fantasies themselves.
(2018) |
Filling in the Fun Parts: Interactive Fiction and Inclusive EducationPresented at the Education, Society & Reform Research Conference (EDUSREF) in Ankara, Turkey, this co-authored paper with colleague and fellow writer Victoria Shropshire explored ways to incorporate the interactive fiction platform Twine into the classroom.
My trip was generously funded by a Research Support Award from the University of Glasgow. (2018) |
'TwitFic', Twine, and Student-Centred Learning: Combining Creativity and Coding in the ClassroomPresented at the Eldoret International Conference on Poverty and Sustainable Development in Africa (EICPSDA) at Kisii University, my research focused on using digital tools in a multimodal classroom to dovetail creative work with computer literacy.
My trip was generously funded by The Fran Trust of Foundation Scotland, and the paper was published in Volume 2, Issue 3 of the Africa International Journal of Management, Education, and Governance. (2017) |
After the Empress Burned Our CitiesThis micro-fiction piece in Issue 4 of Spirit's Tincture was inspired in part by Margaret Cavendish's 1666 work The Blazing World and in part by the poetry of Jo Young.
For an extra-dimensional Empress with a policy of total warfare, victory over the land isn't enough. She wants the conquered people's song. (2017) |
Collaborative Interview with Hayleigh BarclayA fellow writer at the University of Glasgow, Hayleigh and I worked together on this interview about the writing process of writers with disabilities and writers without.
(2016) |
The Phantom and the Fox
An Evelyn and Rafe story, "The Phantom and the Fox" appeared in the anthology Foxes of Glasgow.
Evelyn is a young woman living in Glasgow. Rafe is the shapeshifter who lives with her. Spoilers: a phantom shows up. (2016) |
Cities at the End of the WorldWritten by Dr. David J. Lorenzo, one of my former professors at Virginia Wesleyan, I had the opportunity to edit an early draft of this critical analysis of political issues in utopian and dystopian literature.
(2014) |
The Imperative to Craft: Autobiographical PoemsPresented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, this critical analysis and portfolio of autobiographical poems examines the role of the creative process, stylistic devices, and historical perspective in taking a deeply specific, personal event and translating it into a detailed, resonant experience for the reader.
(2009) |
Making Peace with VietnamWhile an undergrad at Virginia Wesleyan University, I worked as the political research assistant on this documentary about the consequences of the Vietnam /American War on the Vietnamese people.
(2008) Winner: Best Long Documentary, New Beijing International Film Festival (2009) Audience Award, Red Rock Film Festival (2009) Official Selection, NEWFILMMAKERS NYC (2010) |