I'm a Bristol-based writer and sometime researcher with roots in South London. I’m a pub advocate and bartender, having worked at all levels up to general manager in the hospitality industry - with a particular focus on beer and pubs - since 2014.
I’ve graduated from the University of Bristol with two degrees; first in 2015 having studied English and Classics, and more recently in 2020 with a Masters in Philosophy, focusing on English and Comparative Literature. My literary interests include nationalism, imperialism, settler and post-colonialism, the global south, and gender with a particular focus on masculinities. For the past two years, I’ve spent my time researching and writing a countertopography of the works of colonial male writers in the early and mid 20th centuries while working in a Belgian-style Beer Café, the University Library and more recently a brewery and brewpub.
I live with my partner and our two dogs in the South West of England, one of four constituent so-called nations that make up the thoroughly dis-United Kingdom. I am an anarchist, a communist and a firm believer in a better, fairer world for all.
This newsletter will predominantly feature thoughts in short and longform essays concerned with the craft beer and brewing industries’ continuation of capitalist social relations.
Photo by Theresa Undine
