I am an Australian writer based in Santiago, Chile.

My graphic novel – with illustrator Víctor Abarca – Vicentini. El escultor de mentones (2026) tells the story of silent film star and almost-world-champion boxer Luis Vicentini as if it were one of his films.

My history of compulsory military service during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile – The Wars inside Chile’s Barracks (2017) – won the 2018 Best Book Award (Social Sciences) of the Southern Cone Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association.

The Spanish-language version of The Wars inside Chile’s Barracks was published in 2023 as Las guerras dentro de los cuarteles.

My previous book – Ulrike Meinhof and the Red Army Faction (2011) – is a history of West Germany’s most infamous terrorist group and one of its founding members, journalist-turned-terrorist Ulrike Meinhof.

I have published articles and book chapters on the history of terrorism, political violence, prison protest, Santiago’s women’s prison, the body, hunger and hunger strikes, memory, and gender in the contexts of Cold-War West Germany and the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990).