I am a poet and creative artist of English and Sri Lankan heritage, published by Peepal Tree Press. My latest book Unknown Soldier (2019) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and highly commended in Forward Poetry Prizes 2020. My last book The Heart of It (2012) was influenced by my Fellowship experience.

My 2009 Fellowship funded several months in South Africa. As a poet and a psychotherapist, my Fellowship topic combined my passion for poetry and the creative arts with a desire to explore creative responses to trauma. During that time a South African psychologist at the University of Cape Town, who had served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, invited me to present a paper at a conference later that year.

Speaking the Unspeakable through Poetry, which draws on my experiences and research in Cape Town, has been presented at international conferences and symposiums and has informed other work such as: a poetry course, Witnessing War, (Poetry School 2012); a residency with refugee and migrant writers for English PEN (2011); a retelling of Ovid's tale of Philomela in a mixed media production, which explored themes of gender identity, language and silence, trauma and recovery.