I hold a PhD in Creative Writing from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, a Masters in English Literature from Otago University in Dunedin, a Masters in Creative Writing from the IIML at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellinton, and a BA in English from Victoria University. I am the author of the post-collapse verse novel Song of Less (Cordite Books, 2022), the poetry collections Failed Love Poems (THWUP, 2015) and The Same as Yes (THWUP, 2011), and the pamphlets Some People's Favourites (Desperate Literature, 2019) and Two Dreams in Which Things are Taken (DUETS, 2010).

My creative nonfiction and essays on craft and auto-ethnography can be found in The Pantograph Punch, Verge, Westerly, Cordite Poetry Review, Reading Walking Writing and Correspondence 1.1 and 1.2 from The Physics Room, Island, and Bonsai: best small stories from Aotearoa. ​My scholarship can be found in Meanjin, JEASA, Biography, Philosophy Activism Nature, and Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.  My poetry can be found in journals such as Poetry London, Westerly, Australian Book Review, Cordite, Cortland Review, Starling, Australian Poetry Journal, Sweet Mammalian, Minarets, Sport, Landfall, Hue & Cry, the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthology, The Best of Best New Zealand Poems, Essential New Zealand Poetry: Facing the Empty Page, The Everyday Poet: Poems to live by, The Unamuno Author Series Festival Anthology, Bonsai: best small stories from Aotearoa, and No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry. My honours include the Biggs Poetry Prize, the Verge Prize for Poetry, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize from the Hunter Writers' Centre, a Creative New Zealand writing fellowship, a Michael King Writers' Centre residency, and a poetry teaching residency in Honduras. In 2021 my manuscript Dirt was shortlisted for the Helen Anne Bell poetry bequest.

I am Pākeha/Kardiya, of English, Irish, Scottish, Australian and New Zealand ancestry. My pronouns are she/her. I live in Te Whaunganui-a-Tara Wellington.