She has a 25 year career in Accounting, Project Management, Training & Mentoring, IT & Systems Development. She lives in Kent with partner, Richard Stern, an architectural technician.

In 2003, she was awarded an MA with Distinction from Creative Writing programme at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2005, was selected in the anthology "Ten Hallam Poets" published by Mews Press. The anthology attracted high praise from poets Don Paterson, Julia Darling, Helen Dunmore.

She had a Commended Poem at the 2005 Wigtown Poetry Competition. She was the winner of the 2008 Bridport Prize with a 'nice little sonnet', Still Water, Orange, Apple, Tea".

Judge, David Harsent, said of it "what marks it out is the way this emotional commonplace is adapted to language no line lacked a surprise I liked its briskness — celebratory, but never cloying — and liked too, the fine-tuning: a tone of voice that promotes brevity where the notes in question sing and tease and intrigue "

In 2005, she founded poetry p f, website. She is the Administrator and web editor for Second Light Network, and co-edited, with Dilys Wood, Issue 1 to 4 of their biannual journal of women's poetry and writing about poetry, ARTEMISpoetry.

She has read at various literary festivals and is in the programme of the Torbay 10th Anniversary festival, 2010. Her first collection of poetry is The Janus Hour (Oversteps Books, 2010).

She was the judge for the Havant Literary Festival, Hampshire in 2009. She is a member of the Poetry Society. and their Kent North West Stanza Rep.