I joined DHA in August 2022 and worked as an assistant in the film/TV department for almost two years before joining the books department. I previously worked in publishing in various roles but mainly as an assistant in a literary scouting agency and an editorial assistant in a publishing house.

I’m largely a reader of  literary and upmarket fiction and narrative non-fiction. In fiction, I love relationship dramas of all kinds, both grounded and melodramatic. I especially love if they’re a vehicle to explore broader social and political themes like the work of Ayòbámi Adébáyò, Rachel Cusk, Tayari Jones, Claire Keegan, and Sally Rooney. I also enjoy the auto-fictional experiments of Teju Cole and Ben Lerner and relish an imaginative approach to form, narrative voice and structure like the work of Zadie Smith. I have an affinity for literary fiction with speculative, science-fiction or fantasy/magical realist elements – Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s When We Were Birds being a recent example and the work of Ted Chiang, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ben Okri. My literary lodestars are Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, and Song of Solomon is my favourite book ever.

In non-fiction, I love writing which is both precise and stylish across memoirs, histories, biographies, and arts criticism. I particularly enjoy the work of critics, journalists, and academics who write artfully and sensitively about their subjects like Doreen St. Felix, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Harmony Holiday, Wesley Morris, Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, and the late great Greg Tate. I’ve recently enjoyed books like Nadia Owusu’s Aftershocks, Elizabeth Hinton’s America on Fire, Hanif Abdurraquib’s A Little Devil in America, and Les Payne’s The Dead Are Arising.

I assist Nicola Chang and Jemima Forrester.