I was born a native of Stratford in the East End of London in September 1952 and raised in nearby Leyton, developing a lifelong interest in literature, joining my local library when I was three. Always a scribbler, I wrote my first stories as a child and my favourite book is a dictionary. Oddly, I admit to being terrified of the process, comparing it to walking blindfold along the edge of an unknown high cliff, constantly panic-stricken, wondering where the path may lead next. To doom or safety. I however, often finds joy with the correct placement of a single word.
A polymath, shy, slightly synaesthete with a predilection for the supernatural since childhood and transgendered, after working at hundreds of jobs for twenty-five years, I decided that writing was the only activity she could do passably well and so, in 1994, after the death of my parents, decided to change my life around and write as a transgendered woman. Although having assisted in various TV and film projects, I enjoy privacy and are known for my hermit-like existence, being fully cognizance of how people react to my preferred gender. However, I im known for my positive outlook and broad sense of humour. My work has been described as too complicated, too dark, too brooding and too baneful to have popular appeal and its doubtful that it ever will...and that's the way I like it! I believe, to my detriment, was a heavy user of LSD in the late sixties and admits the drug experience probably caused long-term permanent changes in my personality and life perspective.
I feel comfortable working simply. During the embryonic stages of a piece, I prefer to have very little between myself and content. Although my pieces are written up and further constructed on a word processor, the initial, 'layering of the landscape' is achieved with nothing more than a sharp HB pencil, a wad of new paper and a clean white eraser. This method of creation, I accept as pure, free from electronic distraction and infinitely and immediately alterable. Pareidolia often plays a part in my creative process.
A lifelong migraine and panic sufferer, my work reflects the subterranean, saturnian, plutonic, spiritual, solar and luna aspects of human existence as I continuously attempt to understand our world. A lifelong fascination with time, abandonment, love and death are four qualities which motivate me to write. In 2004, I signed for the release of THE LAST WINTER. In 2006, A Life Lived was released to critical acclaim for innovation if not for treatment!
Despite uncertain financial support, as well as novels and full-length screenplays, I have also penned a number of short scripts, some made into strictly amateur films directed and produced by me. My creative output also includes several hundred songs written over a period of thirty five years but, in my words, "You wouldn't pay to hear them!" My other passions are listening to Tom Waits, Capsule (a Japanese pop band-reasonably unknown in the UK), Bach, trance ("It grinds to a halt the awful consequences of my thinking") and film music. Walking and meditation also play a substantial part of my daily routine. I believe the greatest gift I can give to anybody is my silence and my four most cherished proverbs are; If one plants poison ivy, one does not get to pick strawberries, what you think of me is none of my business, we may not always get what we want but we always get what we expect and, we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. I do my best to live by The Golden Rule.
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