About me
The problem with bios is that they demand coherence in a way that actual human lives refuse to provide. On paper, I am a writer, academic, educator, and publisher born in South Africa and based in the UK. I specialise in autofiction, autotheory, fragmented narratives, visual culture, and literary criticism. In practical terms, that means I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how personal stories work, how identity is constructed, and whether anything we write about ourselves is ever really true.1
I am interested in the tension between personal experience and critical theory. The ways in which memory and storytelling shape each other, and why certain narratives persist while others fade. My work often explores liminal spaces, where personal narratives dissolve into cultural critique, where theory becomes lived experience, and where traditional genres fail to hold the complexity of what they are trying to contain. If that sounds abstract, it is only because reality itself is.
Outside of writing, teaching, publishing, and research, I like cats, travel, walking, and tea, which is another way of saying I enjoy things that are quiet and best appreciated in solitude. If you are looking for a more formal version of all this, complete with professional achievements and a neatly structured portfolio, you can find that here.
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‘Truth’ is, of course, a slippery term at best and requires far more than a footnote to unpack. But… you get what I mean.↩