I began writing seriously about 10 years ago when, in1995, I wrote a semi-autobiographical play, Inside Uitlander, about my experiences as a white Sunderland-born teenager taken to Apartheid South Africa. The play did well at the Edinburgh Fringe and was broadcast on Radio 4. Since then I've had seven more plays broadcast by the BBC, including an adaptation for Woman's Hour. My last radio play, The Painter and the Fishergirl, was based on the American painter Winslow Homer's stay in the Cullercoats of the early 1880s and starred Henry Goodman. My theatre plays include three pieces for Live Theatre, two of them for portmanteau productions - The Holiness of the Great North Runner for Twelve Tales of Tyneside and Polls Apart for For the Crack. The third piece, Heartbreakers, was for Live Lines, Live's youth theatre. I have also written for Theatre Cap a Pie and Durham Theatre Company.

A screenplay, River Angel, commissioned by London-based Jump Monk Productions, is in development. In 2003 I scripted the short film The Pictures for the Film in a Week project run by Northern Film and Media. More recently I have begun writing prose. My short story Agnostic was selected by guest editor Michelle Roberts for the spring 2004 issue of Mslexia and two short stories, A Pearl's Tale and Natalya's Tale, can be found in the Tyneside Tales anthology published by Endpapers in November 2005. A ghost story, The Dead Reckoning, will appear in the second Phantoms at the Phil anthology published by Northern Gothic and Sidereal Press in 2006. I am a winner of a 2006 New Writing North Northern Promise Award for my novel in progress How The Eye Works.