About Grace
Grace is senior lecturer of Creative Writing BA (Hons) at Leeds Arts University, and a creative writing lecturer, module leader and dissertation supervisor at Falmouth University’s Creative Writing (Online) department. She holds a PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Creative Arts Higher Education and is researching the merits of brave spaces as a replacement for safe space in creative writing and journalism higher education settings.
She writes the weekly Smart Shot column for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine, which has run in print and online every weekend since 2021, and is a columnist for Mslexia. Her essay ‘The Uncool Girl’s Manifesto’ was published by Walker Books in 2019’s ‘I Will Not Be Erased: our stories about growing up as people of colour’, the first book from Gal-dem. Grace is currently writing her first non-fiction book and is represented by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.
Grace’s writing can be found in a wide range of newspapers, including the Guardian, the Independent, the Huffington Post, and the Telegraph; magazines, including Cosmo, Glamour, Grazia and Psychologies, and digital publications, including Buzzfeed, Gal-dem and Prospect. Grace specialises in social and political issues and explorations of identity, particularly gender, race, relationships and health. She also covers news and current affairs, finance and money and is an adept interviewer and ghostwriter. While she has a passion for longform features and opinion, she has ample experience in writing roundups, profiles and interviews.
Grace is also a travel writer and has covered stories in Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, India, Seville, Mallorca, Venice and various parts of the UK. Publications include Norwegian Airlines inflight magazine, Qatar Airlines inflight magazine, Grazia, Psychologies, and the Telegraph.
Grace has taught in the journalism departments at York St John University and Leeds College, and has led journalism and creative writing workshops at The University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, and Sheffield College. Grace is also a volunteer mentor to several young, female journalists, and worked as a volunteer English tutor for underserved teenagers in Chapeltown, Leeds from 2015 until the Covid pandemic closed the charity in 2020.
She holds a Journalism MA and NCTJ Gold Standard Diploma from The University of Sheffield, and a 1st Class Creative Writing BA (Hons) from Royal Holloway, University of London, alongside a study abroad year at Washington College, Maryland, USA.
Grace is a proud Northerner of biracial heritage who lived in West Yorkshire.