Novelist and maritime essayist — distance, in both senses.
Novelist and maritime essayist. I write about distance — the kind you sail and the kind you keep — and edit other people's sentences until they carry their own weight.1 Fifteen years between newsrooms, small presses and open water.
Contributing editor — Tidal Press2019 →
Cádiz
Commissioning and editing long-form essays on coastal life for a small independent press; author care from first pitch to bound proof.
Staff writer — The Ledger & Line2013 → 2019
Bristol
Features and obituaries, then the paper's last shipping column — six years of weather windows, cargo manifests and the people who read them.
The Quiet Latitude2024 → 2026
A novel about distance. Two years of drafts, one crossing, and a launch page built with the same engine that renders this CV.
An occasional letter from wherever the boat is tied up — short dispatches to readers, no schedule promised and none kept.
CraftLong-form narrativeStructural editingArchival research
WaterCoastal navigationCelestial fixesKnots that hold
MA, Narrative Non-Fiction — University of Falmouth2011 → 2013
Single-handed sailing · Tide tables · Letterpress
Most of what appears above was drafted at anchor. The rest of the time goes to a wooden sloop with opinions, a shelf of tide tables older than their harbours, and a hand press that argues with every typeface it meets.