About Me
I'm a writer and editor based in Guelph, Ontario. Originally from Northern California, I spent six years in Grand Rapids, Michigan and fifteen years in Toronto before settling in Guelph. I hold an MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto, where I won the E.J. Pratt Poetry Medal and the University of Toronto Magazine alumni poetry contest. I have been previously published widely across Canada and work in corporate communications. I won the 2020 LCP Broadsheet contest from the League of Canadian Poets. My debut poetry collection, Doubter's Hymnal, was published in summer 2019 from Mansfield Press and shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert award.
Selected Publications
Poetry
"Like Clockwork," Malahat Review
"Reasons I Must Decline to Carry the Christ Child," Riddle Fence
"Judgment Day," "Weeks Later," and "High Park," The Humber Literary Review
"Cosmic Egg Hypothesis," Winner of the 2020 League of Canadian Poets Broadsheet Contest
"Sex Tourist in Thailand" and "Desire Lines," The Antigonish Review
"Cures for Loneliness," Poetry is Dead
"Somewhere between me and the desert," Winner of the University of Toronto Magazine's alumni poetry contest
"Secondly," Dalhousie Review
"Birds of Cathedrals" and "Half-cursed," The Literary Review of Canada
"Tide Over," Prairie Fire
"Paintingof a Photograph" and "Cherub," The Rusty Toque
"Early Hour" and "The Divorce," Event
"The Arsonist," Arc
Fiction
"The Muck," The Windsor Review
"The Stranger," Existere
"Love Story," Hart House Review
Non-fiction
"Knit Into Being," Sharp Notions, ed. Nancy Lee and Marita Dachsel, Arsenal Pulp Press, September 2023
"Ten Things," Today's Parent
"The Last Mouse," longlisted at Room
"Mother of God," The Toast
Appearances and Readings
Upcoming
Past
Elora
April 22, 2022, Wellington Country Writers Festival, Wellington Archives
Hamilton
September 6, 2020, Lit Live Reading Series at the Staircase Theatre
Montreal
July 15, 2019, 7 p.m., Le Psy
Toronto
July 16, 2019, 7 p.m., Monarch Tavern
November 19, 2019, 8 p.m., Art Bar Reading Series at Free Times Cafe
February 27, 2020, 8 p.m., Pivot Reading Series at the Tranzac