She was born in Norwich and studied history at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She was previously an Examination Fellow at All Souls, where she completed a doctorate on 1970s feminist activism in the UK, US, and France.

Her essays and short stories have appeared in various places, including The Paris Review Daily, The White Review, The Mays Anthology, The Belleville Park Pages, and on posters outside a London tube station.

Her debut novel The Octopus was first published in 2020.