York St John University October 2022-currently studying Practice-led Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Creative Writing Current thesis title: Human to animal transformations in literature and the invitation to transformative encounters, and posthuman reworldings. Research specialises in, literary representations of nonhuman animals, posthuman theory, ecocritical theory, Non object orientated ontologies, weird, eerie, and uncanny fiction. My creative writing work looks at Nonhuman narratives, science-fiction, fantasy, uncanny, weird and eerie fiction, human to animal transformations, and retelling of myths University of Sheffield October 2019-September 2020 Master of Arts (Ma) Creative Writing and English Literature – Distinction Dissertation Title Creative: XVII, Cycles A Brief View of Existence–In Seventeen Cycles Dissertation Title Critical: Becoming Area X: Transformative Encounters—encounters which challenge the human concept of world—Between the Human Self, and Environmental Other, in Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation In my masters degree within my creative practice I focused on weird fiction, representations of nonhuman entities, hybrid prose poetry, representations of the ‘other’, and folk horror. Within my literature modules I focused on 19th century representations of conditioning the body in The Jungle Book, and love and lyric poetry. On this Ma I studied the following modules literature modules alongside my dissertation, and creative writing modules, Love and Lyric, Victorian Bodies. (Try and find module names) York St John University September 2014-July2017 Bachelor of Arts (BA) Music 1st Class. Dissertation Title: The Sound of Silence: A phenomenological exploration of silence within the work of John Cage.