She has a 25 year career in Accounting, Project Management, Training & Mentoring, IT & Systems Development. She lives in Kent with partner, Richard Stern, an architectural technician. In 2003, she was awarded an MA with Distinction from Creative Writing programme at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2005, was selected in the anthology "Ten Hallam Poets" published by Mews Press. The anthology attracted high praise from poets Don Paterson, Julia Darling, Helen Dunmore.