I am a writer based in London. Shop Girl Diaries is my debut book and began as a weekly blog about working in my Mum’s unusual chandelier shop. Interest in my blog from Salt Publishing and Television Director Chloe Thomas, led to the publication of the book in December 2009 and the shooting of the ‘Shop Girl Blog’ TV pilot (soon to be finished).  My blog was announced winner of the Completely Novel Author Blog Awards (published category) at the London Book Fair 2010.

My short stories ‘Camouflage’ and ‘Harry’ were selected for readings at Foyles while ‘Looking for Castles’ was the runner up of Word Market Short Story Competition 2008.  

I am currently working on a new novel, which, after writing two drafts, has just taken a U-turn. It takes place during one summer in Barcelona at a time of social and political unrest, and tells the love story of a young Colombian immigrant and a British photographer looking for work. 

I am half Spanish, was born in Greenwich hospital and spent my teenage years in Barcelona. I have studied in both languages, am a certified TEFL teacher and have a Journalism Diploma from Birkbeck University. I studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and Birkbeck University, and I spent a year developing my work with a writing group led by the writer and poet Caroline Natzler.

In other words, I am mad about writing.