She works as a funeral celebrant and lives in Up Holland, Lancashire with her musician husband and their four pets. She began performing her poems in the early days of the Bolton-based poetry performance group Write Out Loud in 2004 and gained experience reading her work at open mic events around the North West. She has also travelled with the group to poetry festivals, including Bordeaux, and on a personal level she has performed in Greenwich Village, New York and more recently this year, in San Francisco.