About Me

I became a literary agent in 2012. Previously I was a commissioning editor at Virago Press, an imprint of Little Brown Book Group. I co-founded the Diversity in Publishing Network in 2004, which received the New Venture Award from Women in Publishing in 2005. I was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year at the 2025 British Book Awards. 

I have co-facilitated workshops for the AKO Caine Prize. I have been a judge for several prizes including the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, OCM Bocas Fiction Prize, the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Prize, SI Leeds Prize, the Northern Writers’ Awards and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.