Published Works

Recommended Selection

Born from the Drowning Forest

The world is in its final death throes, the sea and temperature both rising. Richa has returned to the Scottish Isle of Lewis, chasing some happy childhood memories and seeking to survive the best she can. She knows she could never bring a child into this new world.

In a drowning forest, Richa finds herself confronted with a little girl called Maya who looks so very much like Richa and her partner, Nathan. She comes from another world, where the planet is not dying, and yet together their bond grows within the forest even as each passing year sees more of it disappearing beneath the sea.

Born from the Drowning Forest can be found at Strange Horizons.

The Glassblower’s Peace

Tomaso is the surplus son. While his father plants his family into every aspect of Venetian society, Tomaso is left to wander through the canals of the great merchant city until he is picked up by the army and given a uniform. There is still not much of a purpose. What city needs an army when it is protected by the most powerful magician of the age?

But there are cracks emerging in the Glassblower’s Peace. An enemy grows more aggressive. And together, Tomaso and the Glassblower herself must uncover what has caused this shift in power.

The Glassblower’s Peace can be found in both Aurealis #114 and Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol. 1. It was shortlisted for Best Novelette in the 2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards.

Inheritance

Nandi Harris, to some, was the greatest painter who ever lived. She painted art not as viewing, but as the destination. An artist who combined her work with magic so that the audience could quite simply step inside her paintings and experience them first-hand.

On the occasion of her posthumous final exhibition, the Inheritance Series, become reacquainted with the career of Nandi Harris, from the firebrand political activist to the maverick enigmatic artist.

Inheritance can be found in Aurealis #124.

Proof of Concept

There was nothing odd about the postcard, nothing odd at all. Except it came from a person who simply didn’t exist.

Proof of Concept is a story about memories, reality, and the fundamental question of whether any of it matters anyway. It can be found in both NewMyths #49 and Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol. 2. It was shortlisted for Best Short Story in the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards.

Arachne’s Web

Arachne knew as soon as she saw Athena in front of her that she was another mortal in another story about mortal hubris and divine punishment. The fundamental truth in any story involving a mortal and the gods was that the gods were better. But what if they weren’t? What if humanity actually won these encounters?

Arachne’s Web is the reimagining of the myths of Arachne, Marsyas, Semele and Sispyhus as tales of human triumphant. You can find it in Aurealis #132. It was shortlisted for Best Short Story in 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards.