I'm a literary critic and fiction writer. I wrote the novels The Quelling (Lanternfish, 2018) and An Unclean Place (Lanternfish, 2023), as well as two academic monographs, Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry (Routledge, 2019) and Victorian Literature, Queer Longing and the Shore, 1840–1920 (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2026). My research interests include women, gender,…