I was born in Los Angeles, California and now live in London, UK – a descendent of immigrants who became an immigrant. My first novel, The Priest Fainted, was a feminist odyssey set in Greece in the mid-1980’s, dipping into myths, family recipes and history to tell the story of three generations of Greek women. The Orchard, an adult-literacy novel published by Gemma Media in 2018, is about a Turkish Greek family dispute over an apricot orchard in Ojai, California, weaving in the genocides of the 1920’s, jam-making and the early days of Hollywood. My most recent project is Utopians of Tahrir Square, a collaboration with Iraqi British writer Anba Jawi, translating 28 young Iraqi poets responding to the protest movement in 2019.

I currently teach writing at Regent’s University London. I also volunteer as a book club leader at West London Welcome for Refugees, am on the Board of Exiled Writers Ink, an organisation that supports refugee and asylum-seeking writers through workshops and monthly literary events, and have worked as a writing mentor and coach for the LSE, Amnesty International and Coffee House Poetry.

I like stories – in poems, essays, fiction. I think that’s how we’re going to figure this thing out – being human – while we still can. Thanks for visiting the Website. Please contact me if you’d like to get in touch.