Born in London in 1970, I moved to Jerusalem, in 1994, and after 15 years in Israel, my partner and I, and our two cats, moved to Bristol in August 2009. After making a living for 13 years as a science journalist, writing for publications such as WIRED, NewScientist, the MIT Technology Review and Business 2.0, I gave it all up to write fiction.My first short story collection, The White Road and Other Stories, is now available from Salt Modern Fiction and was commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers. My fiction, plays and film scripts, have won or been shortlisted for various prizes, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, been published in print and online, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and performed.
I am currently writer-in-residence in the Science Faculty at Bristol University, working on a second collection, of short stories inspired by spending time in a biochemistry lab, with funding from Arts Council England. (Read more about my concept of science-inspired fiction here). I am also currently doing a mini-writing-residency running creative writing workshops for asylum seekers at Bristol Refugee Rights, as part of English PEN's Big Writing for a Small World project.
I am the founder and editor of The Short Review, an online journal dedicated to reviewing short story collections and anthologies and showcasing short story authors.
