I began my working life as a middle manager in social welfare. In the 1990s I re-trained and established a private psychotherapy practice in which I also offered organisational consultancy focusing on strategic planning and conflict resolution. In the 2000s I fell into writing, editing and publishing. I established a literary journal for Western Australian writers called indigo. I established the micro-publisher Inkerman & Blunt in 2013 and in 2020 my unconventional memoir, She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life, was published by Allen & Unwin.