I have long been interested in articulating trauma through innovation in contemporary poetry. I primarily write poetry and short fiction; I also publish criticism, essays, and reviews. My poetry ranges from the linguistically innovative to the elliptical lyric to the verse novel, and I have particular interests in prose poetry, ecopoetry, and poetry engaging with classical mythology. My first collection, The Tethers (2009), won the London New Poetry Prize for the best first collection published in the UK and Ireland in the preceding two years, and my third collection, Imagined Sons (2014), was shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. My most recent collection, The Weather in Normal (2018), in part addresses the climate crisis, particularly its effects on the American Midwest, and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

I'm interesting in supervising PhD research in contemporary poetry, particularly writing addressing the environmental crisis, questions of hybridity, and/or classical mythology.