THE PASSENGER SEAT
The Passenger Seat is my first novel. It explores the connections between male friendship and violence without offering any easy or comforting answers. It was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo/New Directions/Giramondo Novel Prize. You can find The Passenger Seat in your local independent bookstore in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and you can pre-order it ahead of its May 2025 release in the United Kingdom.
Praise for The Passenger Seat:
‘unsettling and powerful’ – New York Times
‘an unusual and deftly written literary thriller’ – Books & Publishing
‘A challenging novel that pushes against the elastic comfort of the expected’ – Foreword Reviews
Short fiction
‘Dad Bod’ in Port Magazine
‘Small Environmental Changes (light etc.)’ in NOON 2022
‘The Menaced Assassin’ in The Guardian
‘Come Back in Ten Years’ in 3:AM Magazine
‘Follower’ in Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Vol. 14
‘About Suffering’, Galley Beggar Press
Translations from German
Red (Hunger) by Senthuran Varatharajah; novel excerpt in The White Review Translation Anthology
‘The Autopsy’ by Georg Heym; short story at Scratch Classics
Creative-Critical Projects
‘National 60 (in a TDK Case)’ at A Row of Trees
‘A Little Death’ at Creative | Critical
Prizes
Shortlisted for the 2022 Fitzcarraldo Editions/New Directions/Giramondo Novel Prize
Winner of the 2021 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition
Shortlisted for the 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize
Runner-up in the Belfast Book Festival’s 2021 Mairtin Crawford Award
Longlisted for the 2021 Desperate Literature Prize
Runner-up in the 2021 Cúirt New Writing Prize
Shortlisted for the 2020 Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019-2020 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 I’ll Show You Mine sex-writing prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Bath Short Story Award
Regal Beagle
Regal Beagle is a chapter book for younger readers. It’s available in bookshops in Australia, and here.