I completed my VIVA in January 2026, and I wrote pretty extensively in a previous post titled How I survived my viva and PhD thesis defence in creative writing about how I prepared. The preparation phase is the most dominant part of the PhD journey. It’s the one we all fear. So, even though I […]

There is a question I get all the time. Every year, for the past four years, someone has asked me some version of this mystifying question. “But what will you do when you finish your PhD?” “So obviously you’re going to teach at the university when you finish?” “Tell me, have you got a plan […]

Beyond the Thickets and The Trees will be the first novel-length manuscript that I’ve ever really finished – as in, finished, finished. Since the age of 28, I’ve written two novels that I’ve given up on, was too confused by, or not confident enough in. My first novel embarrassingly titled Hacker Girl, is a dystopian […]