I’m a Scottish writer and poet, and before all of that I was a musician. I grew up in Edinburgh, surrounded by grey stone and weather that teaches you to pay attention. For years I sang played guitar, occasionally wrote songs, and lived inside sound. When hearing loss and diplacusis arrived, it didn’t end anything, it just changed the way I express myself.

Writing became the place where things still felt clear.

Where the world didn’t split in two.

Where silence made sense.

My work comes from the places and people who shaped me. Scotland’s rugged quiet, Brazil’s warmth and chaos, childhood memories, the people I’ve loved and lost, and the stubborn resilience that gets you through the strange turns life takes. I write about friendship, time, ghosts, hope, and the beauty you only notice when you slow down. Some things start as songs, turn into poems, and eventually become stories. It’s all the same impulse, trying to understand the world again.

Time Passes So Fast (coming soon) is part of that journey. A collection of poems, songs, reflections, and small truths gathered across years and continents. It’s not the book I thought I’d write, but it’s the one I needed to.

I live in São Paulo now, with the woman who helped me find a melody in the quiet, and I’m still exploring that space between who we were, who we are, and who we might become.