Writing

I write across speculative nonfiction and criticism, searching for an anticolonial poetics. I work with fragments, partial histories and forms of attention shaped by diaspora, implication and refusal. For me, writing is an act of sociality that often begins sideways through citation and proximity and treats form as a site of ethical and political pressure. My work has been published internationally in Wasafiri, Errant Journal, Black Warrior Review, The Seventh Wave, Elephant Magazine, and other places. It has been recognised with the Wasafiri Queen Mary University New Writing Prize, the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Prize, the Room Nonfiction Prize, a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize nomination, and has been shortlisted and selected as a finalist for prizes including The Sewanee Review Nonfiction Prize. I am currently working on my first book.

Editing + Publishing

My editorial practice is collaborative and process-led, grounded in long-term engagement with artists, writers, and institutions. I work with editing and publishing as critical forms in their own right, spaces where discourse is shaped, negotiated, and made public. Over more than two decades, I have co-created over fifty publications on contemporary art and culture, working across exhibition catalogues, artists’ books, essay collections, and experimental formats. This work has been developed in collaboration with artists and institutions including the Hayward Gallery, the National Gallery, Wellcome Collection, Arts Council Collection and the Archive of Modern Conflict, as well as with artists, writers, and independent publishers. Editing, for me, is a way of thinking with others: attending to voice, structure, and context, and to the institutional conditions that shape what can be said and how knowledge circulates. You can reach me here if you want to discuss a collaboration.

Teaching + Collective Study

Teaching and facilitating are central to my practice and operate as interconnected forms of cultural work. I teach writing, cultural studies, and criticism at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where my pedagogy is shaped by decolonial and feminist approaches and treats the classroom as a site of shared risk and reciprocity. Alongside this, I co-convene and design symposia, workshops, and experimental learning spaces that bring together artists, writers, students, and institutions, including Speaking in Many Voices: Writing in the Art School and my work as co-convener of the Fictions, Fabulations and Fugitivities research group at UAL. This work prioritises shared study, unfinished thinking, and forms of exchange that exceed disciplinary and institutional boundaries, attending to the conditions under which thinking can happen. Across teaching, convening, and public speaking, I am interested in how ideas circulate in live, situated contexts and in how collective forms of attention and shared risk might open space for other ways of being together.