About Me

I've been a pharmacist, an English language instructor, an internet consultant, a copywriter and an editor. I've also spent years reading about psychology, trauma mostly. What it does to a brain. How grief changes someone, and what's left over once it's finished with them.

I've got a B.Sc. in Pharmacy from Egypt and an MA in Creative Writing from the UK. 

Egypt's where I grew up. The UK is where I lived for years. 

I write about people coming apart, and what it costs to keep going anyway. Women who gave their love to men too small to hold it. Things that won't stay buried, however long you leave them alone. Taking back what someone tried to erase in you.

My first novel came out in 2009 and became a bestseller in Egypt. When I read it, I barely recognise the writer. I was younger, and I didn't know yet what I could actually do on the page. So I did the MA.

Years of drafts followed, most of them circling something without ever landing on it. A few years ago I worked out I'd been writing towards survival and trauma the whole time. Took me a long time and a lot of self-doubt and a fair few things I was trying to survive rather than write about, before I admitted horror was where I actually belonged. There's a sci-fi horror novel underway now. Short stories, too.

English isn't my first language, but it's the one my stories keep happening in. Poetry came before prose; I think my sentences still remember that.

I love black coffee and rain. Cats. Films that leave the world looking slightly off once the lights come back up. Cities I loved and left. Music that finds the parts of you that don't get found often. Read Anna Karenina at fifteen and it broke something open in me.

Most days I write to get back to who I was before I learned how to disappear.

In September 2026, my horror story The Footsteps at 3:33 was featured on The NoSleep Podcast (S25, Ep6)! More on my News & Updates page.

I'm working on something new in horror right now, too. 

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