I was born south of Hadrian`s Wall in a small town in the heart of the England`s `Industrial Black Country`. The red brick suffocation imprinted on me the feeling of being `a fish out of water.`

The years eventually took me to British Columbia - to Vancouver Island,  a land of water and trees and multicultural influences. I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree there in the University of Victoria and discovered the joy of philosophy and poetry.

The North Coast of Scotland became my home in 1974. I earned my living designing and making embroidered garments and doing `home help’, in between offering a vegetarian B&B (before the crazy world of North Coast 500) Those were transformative years. A land so ancient and remote, where there was nowhere else to go but inwards. My writing began here, inspired by the solitude and the landscape.

Intervening years birthed my family. And loss. My writing resumed in earnest after the death of my husband in 2014. Everything from year zero to the end of 2017 is held within the pages of my book of poems that I published in 2017,  Raven Songs

My mentor for  years of writing has been George Gunn. His keen eye always asking for more from the script. He mended broken wings to help the little yellow bird fly. I owe him a debt of gratitude.

There are poems still to publish, hundreds…..I enjoy sharing them ..the connection with others is the reason I write.

As Charlotte Bronte said ‘I`m just going to write because I cant help it’.  That just about sums it up.