I work as a lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies (FACS) and Design History and Theory (DH&T). I also teach a postgraduate elective course, 'Worlding Fictions and Fictional Worlds'. As a poet with an academic background in postcolonial theory, I have collaborated across art forms on projects which explore issues of belonging, subjectivity, race and gender. My poetry and projects often focus on place, memory and stories (historical, fictional, mythical); and how they shape one’s sense of self or changing subjectivity. In 2008 I graduated from Glasgow University with a PhD on Jean Rhys’s novels and postcolonial theory, incorporating film theory, French feminism, and psychoanalysis. In addition to being widely published in magazines and anthologies, I have had four short poetry collections published, the first of which, Skirlags, was shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald Award in 2010. As George Mackay Brown Writing Fellow in Orkney (2009-10), I led collaborative projects,