Keen to break down boundaries of art/science/literature. Currently writer in residence at Gordon Museum of Pathology, Guy's Hospital, London, appointed October 2006, working with a visual artist and a sculptor. Awarded £30,000 Arts Award from The Wellcome Trust to fund six months of a new project in London, which will involve researching pathology at the Gordon Museum, and with scientists at Kings College London Medical School, to produce cross-disciplinary work for public exhibition and publication. Won Northern Writers' Award 2006 for forensic/anatomical poetry. I was poet in residence at Ilkley Literature Festival in October 2006. New radio play, Nowt to Look at, commissioned by the BBC for Radio 3's The Wire, a monthly Saturday evening slot.

My work is sometimes visual, sometimes for page or stage. I invented the Quantum Poem and the Embedded Haiku for sci/art commissions. My Arts Council-funded project Quantum Sheep, spray painting poetry onto live sheep, received world-wide media attention in 2002-2003: (coverage on five TV channels, 19 radio stations/features, including a live interview with John Humphrys on Radio 4's Today programme and featured on Radio 4's News Quiz Best of the Year, 13 newspapers/magazines, over 32 websites). Window of Art, ‘embedded haiku' on anatomy commissioned for St Thomas' hospital windows in London, was printed in electroluminescence and is seen by 350 visitors each day.

My latest poetry collection is Quantum Sheep (Peterloo Poets), published November 2006. Also Moonbathing (2003, Peterloo Poets), For Crying Out Loud (Iron, with Kitty Fitzgerald), Star Trek – the Poems (ed/compiled, Iron), and I feature in many anthologies. I perform and lead workshops/interactive events at litfests and venues all over the UK. I've written six stage plays and a short film, all commissioned and produced, including Hadaway, the Making of a Writer, (also published by Iron Press) and won a Northern Promise Award in 2004 for my crime novel, currently with my agent.

I've broadcast a talk I wrote for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes series. I'm being mentored by BBC Radio 4 to write radio drama and am a member of Cloud Nine Theatre Company's Steering Group.  I taught (Head of Year Five) until disabled in an accident; recently lectured on the MA(creative writing) at Northumbria University (where I gained my own MA) for three years, have taught workshops to all ages, and have honours degrees in English and in maths/theoretical physics.