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I write, edit, and proofread copy and content for clients across industry, culture, and the third sector. Clients include property, financial and corporate services, travel (destination, hospitality, two airlines and one of the world’s largest cruise lines), small business, consultants, and coaches. My professional practice combines two decades' writing experience, a strong PR foundation, with qualitative and practice-based research methods refined during graduate and doctoral training.
I am currently a PhD researcher in the Department of Communications and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield, where I have co-taught a graduate course on autobiography, co-chaired two graduate research conferences, and designed and delivered seminars on online community-building with social media, and using Twitter as part of humanities research.
My research interests include Caribbean fiction, the literary traditions of Britain's Overseas Territories, the social, economic and environmental challenges common and unique to contemporary Grand Cayman, and the oral and narrative traditions of the Cayman Islands. My practice-based research aims to accurately portray daily life in Grand Cayman to counter representations, tropes and stereotypes of the Cayman Islands in fiction and popular culture.
In 2019, I completed my MFA (distinction) at the Manchester Writing School. My research, writing and dissertation employed the oral traditions, dialect, accent and setting of Grand Cayman. Short fiction from the MFA workshop was later published in 'The Caribbean Writer'. I hold a BA from Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, a graduate certificate (Public Relations Management) from McGill University, and studied humanities at the Thomas More Institute, Montreal.
I currently co-chair a book club at Cayman Connection, the charitable arm of The Cayman Islands Government Office in the UK.