At The Lookout Tower, April 2016
Welcome to my website ...
I am a writer, editor, and teacher interested in the conversation between theology, philosophy, and the arts. A selection of my poetry and non-fiction has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies. Extended extracts from a memoir about my father, the figurative painter William Coldstream, have appeared in The Gold Room and the UEA creative non-fiction anthologies.
Currently deputy editor of MONK arts magazine, I am also an interdisciplinary essayist, musician, and - as of this month - podcaster. I am in the process of launching my own publishing label, The Coldstream Press, with books on the Theology, Philosophy, and the Arts due out in the near future.
I grew up in London, read theology at the University of Oxford, and completed an MA in creative non-fiction at UEA. I am now in the final throes of a PhD at Goldsmiths, where I work on memoir and narratives around spirituality with Abigail Shinn and Blake Morrison. I have a performers' diploma in viola performance, and have taught both music and theology/ RS at school level.
For many years I was a member of a strict monastic community in the Carmelite tradition, a life-defining and life-changing experience that has never left me. It still gives me endless food for thought, and of course, informs my writing and thinking at a deep level.
I remain optimistically active as a musician, and am a member of a number of instrumental ensembles, such as the A440 Chamber Orchestra, and the Oxford String Quartet, and am a member of Intermezzo chamber choir. In 2016 I read from my memoir at the Lookout Tower, Aldeburgh, as part of a week-long residency, and have since read and performed my multimedia work at a number of venues and events.
I am a writer, editor, and teacher interested in the conversation between theology, philosophy, and the arts. A selection of my poetry and non-fiction has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies. Extended extracts from a memoir about my father, the figurative painter William Coldstream, have appeared in The Gold Room and the UEA creative non-fiction anthologies.
Currently deputy editor of MONK arts magazine, I am also an interdisciplinary essayist, musician, and - as of this month - podcaster. I am in the process of launching my own publishing label, The Coldstream Press, with books on the Theology, Philosophy, and the Arts due out in the near future.
I grew up in London, read theology at the University of Oxford, and completed an MA in creative non-fiction at UEA. I am now in the final throes of a PhD at Goldsmiths, where I work on memoir and narratives around spirituality with Abigail Shinn and Blake Morrison. I have a performers' diploma in viola performance, and have taught both music and theology/ RS at school level.
For many years I was a member of a strict monastic community in the Carmelite tradition, a life-defining and life-changing experience that has never left me. It still gives me endless food for thought, and of course, informs my writing and thinking at a deep level.
I remain optimistically active as a musician, and am a member of a number of instrumental ensembles, such as the A440 Chamber Orchestra, and the Oxford String Quartet, and am a member of Intermezzo chamber choir. In 2016 I read from my memoir at the Lookout Tower, Aldeburgh, as part of a week-long residency, and have since read and performed my multimedia work at a number of venues and events.
The Oxford String Quartet at Blenheim