Just picked up Semi Final placing with both the Santa Barbara International Screenplay (Jan 2025) and UK Page Turner (Dec 2024) Awards for the screenplay 'Odesa'. In Odesa, a DC reporter, with no interest in war reporting, finds herself in Ukraine.
I am interested in stories that expand and deepen the way we see our lives and what matters. What excites me is what we are capable of - in the positive sense - rooted in a realistic appreciation of human frailty and the human condition.
But hey, life happens regardless! and depending on the context, if my stories can capture the fun, laughter, nonsense, romance, love and nature that can help sustain us, I will find a way.
A highly industrious type, I thrive working to a deadline, very much enjoy working with others on a project, and I write what I care about. Visited Ukrainan refugees in Poland at the outset of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and after that, it was hard to write about anything else. I have since visited wartime Ukraine three times to help in the writing of 'Odesa' (2 pics above are from Odesa and 1 from Lviv: student actors from Lviv university after a table read of Odesa)
My screenplay in progress 'Arcadia' is an adventure set in the future, but is not dystopian.
I wrote the Kirkus-starred novel "The Journey of Water" after walking 900km solo from London to Geneva, and discovering along the way, how we too readily give our power away.
I tend to have one foot out the door. Life-long voracious appetite for learning and travel, mostly off the beaten track. I no longer dance on tables (well, mostly) ... but I had the pleasure recently to give that attribute to a lead character. Writing is such a pleasure and privilege. It connects me to humanity, expands the heart and so much more.
Screenwriting training with L.A.'s Script Anatomy. MFA at Queens University Charlotte NC with Fred Leebron and Khris Baxter, during which I was selected for an advanced fellowship working with a senior editor from Random House NY. Former journalist, researcher, charity CEO/Founder.
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  • Writer (2 Credits)
    Arcadia
    Screenplay
    Odesa
    Screenplay
Semi-Finalist
Odesa
Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
2025
Semi-Finalist
Odesa
ISA Page Turner Awards
2024
College
Queens University Charlotte NC
MFA
20202021
College
London School of Economics
M.Sc. International Relations
High School
Queensland University of Technology
B. Bus. Communications (Journalism and Government)
Birth City
Brisbane
Current City
Cambridge UK
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi
Just picked up Semi Final placing with both the Santa Barbara International Screenplay (Jan 2025) and UK Page Turner (Dec 2024) Awards for the screenplay 'Odesa'. In Odesa, a DC reporter, with no interest in war reporting, finds herself in Ukraine.
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