Publications

A Special issue of Westerly Magazine guest edited by Prema Arasu.

A book of poetry about the deep sea. Forthcoming with Fremantle Press (2026).

An anthology of stories about sea monsters. Forthcoming with Bloomsbury/Conway (August 2025).

The Global Distribution, Life History, and Taxonomic Description of the Common Oceanic Plastic Bag: Plasticus sacculi sp. nov

Advanced darkness: the deep sea in children's media

The lure of the deep sea: anglerfish as movie monsters

They say we know more about the moon than about the deep sea. They’re wrong.

Reply to: People do care about the deep sea. A comment on Jamieson et al. (2020)

Sleeping with the fishmen: reimagining the anthropocene through oceanic-chthonic kinships

Lovecraftian games: the afterlife of Cthulhu on Valve's Steam client.

Review: Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity by Jaroslav Švelch. 

Hogwarts Legacy’s game mechanics reflect the gender essentialism at the heart of Harry Potter.

Starfield is the latest game to be boycotted by conservatives. This time because of pronouns

Girl wizards and boy witches: gender in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

All the disc's a stage: Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters as metafiction

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials: recreating Paradise Lost as a narrative of adolescence

Review: Katherine E. Bishop, David Higgins and Jerry Määttä, eds. Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation