[2] She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington[3] and has worked as a magazine feature writer, advertising copywriter and business consultancy owner.

[2][3] While living in San Francisco, she took a creative writing course at a local community college,[4] and in 2005, she took an Iowa short story course at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington.

[2][3] Her short fiction has appeared in HOME, Turbine and Sport,[2] and some of her books have been published in Germany and Italy.

[2][10] She has been invited to appear as speaker, panellist and/or chair at numerous literary festivals, including the New Zealand Book Council True Stories Told Live (2012),[11] the IIML Writers on Monday series (2015),[12] and, in 2018, the Auckland Writers Festival, Writers and Readers Week at the New Zealand Festival,[13] WORD Christchurch,[14] the NZSA National Writers Forum,[15] the Hawke's Bay Arts Festival[16] and LitCrawl Wellington, when she took part in a special live edition of RNZ's Short Story Club, hosted by Jesse Mulligan.

[18][24] The Hiding Places won the Nelson Public Libraries Award for New Zealand Fiction (2015).