Based in Sheffield, UK – I’m a writer, maker, creative facilitator and mentor specialising in creative writing and nature-allied arts for healing, liberation and courage.
From leaving school at 16 years old with 3 o-levels and being told I could never be a writer – to severe burnout, grief, loss, and chronic illnesses – I reconnected with the power of words and creative arts in my late forties as an act of radical healing, as a way to write myself back home, transform my life, and to learn to live well within my limitations. This journey led to my gaining an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes (Metanoia Institute).
Nature and the outdoors are a huge part of my journey and my creative work. I’m most often found on my allottment or roaming the Peak District in my tiny van, pen in hand, creating my latest archive. My debut poetry collection (un)interrupted tongues explores my journey towards liberation and healing.
My work centres encouraging women/people of colour to discover their own individual and collective voices through creative, mixed-media and nature-allied writing arts, mentoring, courses and workshops. I also design anti-racist mentoring programmes and workshops for professional development.
I believe we need to tell our stories, create our own wild archives – because if we don’t tell them, who else will?
If you’d like to have a chat about collaborating please email me at hello@dalkular.com
In 2024, my creative projects include:
Black Nature in Residence’s ‘Creative-in-Residence’ for Peak District National Park.
an artist commission for Dig Where You Stand archival justice project led by Desiree Reynolds.
continuing partnership with Centre of Equity and Inclusion’s anti-racist mentoring scheme.
Peaks of Colour’s 2024 writer-in-residence: zine project on nature writing.
creating handmade note-books and journals and multi-media/mash-up journal writing as intentional archiving of our lives now
Migration Matters Festival 2024: creative workshop about the Partition of India.
an essay on nature and healing due to published in the anthology, Wild Service, by Bloomsbury in April 2024.