Creative communicator tentatively embracing a hyper digital world

Creative communicator. I don’t love titles, but this is pretty accurate for me.

I’ve made short films, published poems and stories, and I also make collages. By day, I’m a narrative editor working in the tcg space. Before that, I was a copywriter.

Over the years, I’ve developed a style that leans heavily into the weirder aspects of life. Oftentimes, it’s full of magical realism, other times it’s full of cosmic wonder, and when I’m really feeling the absurdity of the world, I’m all about cosmic horror.

Some scholars claim that magical realism is not a genre but a sensibility—a way of looking at reality—and the weirder the better, but only if the weirdness acts to describe life genuinely (thanks Aimee Bender for that!). That sounds about right for my process.

At 26, I chucked in my day job at a local newspaper and began a five year adventure in academia-land earning a Diploma in Creative Writing, a Bachelor Degree in Anthropology and Film, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies. It was the making of me, but sometimes I wish I’d just read a lot of books and made a lot of stuff!!

I’ve had plenty of jobs to make ends meet and some turned into a career. I’m a keen hobbyist with more recreational pursuits than pairs of socks.

My philosophical approach to life is Being and Doing in equal measure in a way that does not consciously harm. I try to be both observer and participant but am finding it harder to participate as the world gets faster, bigger, and less comprehensible.

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Together with my partner, Edwin McRae, we have written and published four novels, a novella, a novelette, a visual novel, and three non-fiction books. We live in a small rural town in Otago, New Zealand close to the mountains, rivers and lakes, and love the quiet life.

I have gathered a lot of experiences and aim to create meaning from them through various forms of storytelling and art.