Hello and welcome to my website!
I’m a writer and editor of poetry and speculative fiction, as well as an occasional maker of art.
If you’d like to know more about my books, click on the covers below.

Thanks for dropping by and feel free to have a good nosy. 🙂

Cover of Waterlore by Teika Marija Smits

Latest blog posts

Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

I am finally getting around to “officially” sharing my good news – at the British Fantasy Society awards last Saturday […]

A Summer of New Experiences

I wanted to look back on a few of the things I did this summer with a view to reminding myself that I can set anxieties aside and push myself to do new things.

Three short fiction microreviews

At the end of last month I shared my last three reads on social media, but I wanted to write […]

I am not a machine. (Some thoughts on AI and creativity.)

Last Saturday, over our usual morning coffee, my husband told me about an entrepreneur he’d been listening to on YouTube […]