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Hello! I’m a writer based in Edinburgh and (more recently) Germany – I spent 2 years in Frankfurt before moving to Berlin. I originally came to Edinburgh to study astronomy, and although I’m no longer a professional astronomer much of my writing explores the hidden lives of scientists and their work.

My collection of short stories The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space is about real, imaginary and bizarre episodes in the history of science. In my novel The Falling Sky, a young astronomer finds evidence contradicting the big bang theory, and loses her mind. I’m co-editor (with Tania Hershman) of I Am Because You Are, a specially commissioned anthology of fiction celebrating general relativity. I’m also co-editor (with Drs Gill Haddow and Fadhila Mazanderani) of Uncanny Bodies, an anthology of fiction, poetry and academic writing inspired by the uncanny, published by Luna Press. My essay Night Vision (published by Broken Sleep Books) examines the various meanings of outer space for humanity, and argues that we should do a better job of protecting it.

My short stories, poetry and non-fiction have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, most recently in Mslexia, Times Literary Supplement, New Writing Scotland, Litro and the New York Times, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

I’m currently writing a non-fiction book about what it feels like to live in Germany, my German grandfather Ernst, and my experiences of the ‘deep’ universal history of the night sky. This book (working title ‘The German Lesson’) explores how we accommodate the past in our present – whether that past is human or cosmic. My ongoing blog also explores some of these ideas.

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