Published Writing

On this page you’ll find links to my recent book reviews, feature writing and journalism.

All writing listed here is editorially independent of my client work.

Book Reviews

Review of ‘Mantle’ by Romy Ash - Mascara Literary Review (October 2026)

“Romy Ash’s second novel Mantle digs into liminal spaces to unearth a near-future narrative that erodes the boundary between the fate of humanity and that of the natural world we are indivisibly entangled with.”

Review of ‘Mine’ by Adam Ouston - The Saturday Paper (August 2026)

“Ambitious in form and scope, unrelenting and unceasing right up until that first and only full stop, Mine asks a lot of its reader and, once it’s been read, refuses to go gently.“

‘“It scares me more than anything else”: Inside the next global health crisis’ - review of ‘Sentinels: when diseases spread between animals and humans’ by Michael Dulaney, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald (August 2026)

“There is a macabre serendipity to the release of Sentinels. Yet, as author Michael Dulaney acknowledges, ‘Infectious disease is a morbid topic, even more so in the aftermath of a pandemic.’”

‘No good options: a tour of our geoengineering dilemma’ - review of ‘A Brief History of Climate Folly’ by Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery, Australian Book Review (August 2026)

“That authors of this stature are putting the geoengineering risk calculus firmly on the table shows that this conversation could become much more prominent in Australian climate politics.”

Review of ‘The Vanishing Wild: Australian wildlife and the fight against extinction’ by Justine E. Hausheer - The Saturday Paper (May 2026)

“In The Vanishing Wild science writer Justine E. Hausheer escorts us to the frontlines of Australia’s nature extinction crisis…In this landscape of loss, the heroes of The Vanishing Wild are the ecologists, threatened species biologists, and other scientists and conservationists devoting their careers to trying to prevent those extinctions.”

review of ‘Brave New Wild: Can Technology Really Save The Planet?’ by Richard King - The Saturday Paper (November 2025)

“Sun-dimming. Stratospheric aerosol injection. Submarine ice curtains. Marine cloud brightening. Asteroid mining. Is this how we will save ourselves from runaway climate change?”

‘Strange ideas take root in this ambitious story about our climate crisis’ - review of ‘Arborescence’ by Rhett Davis, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald (July 2025)

“We’re familiar with the idea that planting a tree is a gesture of hope, a way of helping to heal the Earth. But what about taking root and becoming trees ourselves?”

‘Irrational, beautiful hope: climate fiction for our current reality’ - review of ‘The Clinking’ by Susie Greenhill, Australian Book Review (May 2025)

“Rising seas, mega fires, drought, melting glaciers, and animal extinctions are not exactly the stuff of fiction in 2025. But these themes are also precisely the domain of fiction that speaks of the climate at this moment in the planet’s history, as Susie Greenhill’s début novel, The Clinking, demonstrates with its tender yet insistent call for us to pay attention to this fragile world.”

Australian Geographic

‘What’s next for bird flu?’ - Australian Geographic online (October 2026) and printed in Australian Geographic magazine issue 195 (November-December 2026)

‘Wildlife authorities on alert to spread of H5N1 bird flu in Australia’ - Australian Geographic online (June 2026)

‘eDNA reveals historic habitats of threatened species’ - Australian Geographic online (March 2026)

‘Celebrating Australia’s merry, once-misunderstood native mistletoe’ - Australian Geographic online (December 2025)

‘A hitchhikers guide to the humpback highway’ - Australian Geographic online (November 2025)

‘Intrepid rangers carry wallabies in backpacks to new home’ - Australian Geographic online (September 2025)

‘This seabird prefers to poo while flying’ - Australian Geographic online (August 2025)

‘Orcas filmed grooming each other with seaweed in rare case of ocean mammal tool use’ - Australian Geographic online (June 2025)

‘Man deliberately bitten by snakes helps create new antivenom’ - Australian Geographic online (May 2025)

‘DNA tests reveal orcas killed great white for only its liver’ - Australian Geographic online (February 2025)

'Australia remains on high alert for killer bird flu despite enduring recent high-risk migration season’ - Australian Geographic online (January 2025)

Other reporting and features

‘Renewables on Country’ - Renew magazine 176 (July 2026) available to read online at the First Nations Clean Energy Network website.

‘The Narrows, Victoria’ - Walkers Journal