I’m a copywriter and author living in London.
Most recently, I worked at EPAM Systems as a senior copywriter for three and a half years, and for the year before that a small digital agency called TH_NK, which was bought by EPAM. I worked across accounts like Vue, Knight Frank, Bacardi, Screwfix and BKW.
I started my career as a food and travel journalist, writing about the good stuff for The Guardian, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Foodism, The Pool, Food52, Refinery29, Waitrose Magazine and Lucky Peach. You can find some of that work under the journalism tab on this website. I won the prize for food writing at the YBFs and AITO’s Young Travel Writer of the Year award. I wrote a column for Eater London about £5 eats in 2017-2018 and a column about snacks for Grazia in 2019-2020. I now write various bits and bobs, including Subsnack and – recently-ish – this essay for Vittles.
I’ve written copy for brands like Bacardi, Vue, Crowdfunder, Virgin Media Business, Virgin Unite, Knight Frank, Adidas, Screwfix and Tesco. The work I do is varied, including but not limited to: campaigns, TOV, social, CRM and UX copy. The latter is my favourite; I enjoy taking a user through a nice, smooth journey. I've written websites for banks, energy companies, estate agents, charities and restaurants.
My first book was a peachy, starchy cookbook dedicated to a food group historically given far too much grief: CARBS. It was published by Quadrille in 2018. Nigella called it ‘wonderful’, Rukmini Iyer called it her 'favourite cookbook’ and Meera Sodha described it as 'joyful, funny and intelligent'.
And my second, THE JOY OF SNACKS, published by Headline Home in September 2022, does what it says on its crisp packety cover. It’s a collection of essays, lists, recipes, nonsenses and jokes to take you from your morning coffee to your evening wine via crispy bits, dips, nachos, frozen pina coladas, cake donuts and other joyous things. It was one of The Guardian’s books of the year, and it was shortlisted for Best Food Book in the Fortnum & Mason food and drink awards.
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