[2] She holds a PhD in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, supervised by Damien Wilkins and Mark Williams.
[1][3] After finishing her PhD, she and her partner moved to Western Australia for a year and subsequently to Melbourne, where she worked as a book reviewer for Overland.
[1] It was launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival,[4] and features the relationship of a Greek woman and a Māori man and their cultural differences.
[8] In 2020 she received the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for her short story collection Apologia.
[10] Having lived in Melbourne for a decade, in 2020 she returned to New Zealand, where she spent six months in Wellington as the recipient of the Randell Cottage Writers' Residency.