Writing has been integral to my life forever. I retired in 2021 with burn out after over twenty years working as an NZAC accredited counsellor specialising in trauma. Earlier, while farming and being parent to my four amazing children, I studied and attained a degree in psychology as an extramural student via Massey, furthering study mainly in the field of trauma and child safety, while counselling. My previous career training was as a med lab tech. Feeling lost within the exhaustion of burnout and retirement I began writing personal essays, connected with writer Pat White as a mentor, and from this rose my memoir How the Light Falls.I am still finding a genre. I am almost finished a collection of personal essays under the working title "Voices'. I am not sure what will evolve from here.

I am told my style is 'different'. The highlight of the last few years has been attending the Rough Ridges Writer's Retreat, and have a short story, Last Day, published in their 2022 anthology Ridge Lines. 

 

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