Display of vintage vinyl records, including Johnny Watson's "I Cried for You" featuring a woman with long red hair on the cover, a Don Randi Trio album, a Jimmy Castor album, and other various cover art.

Publications

Canadian Literature, forthcoming, 2027: “The Rehearsal”

Prairie Fire, forthcoming, 2026: “The moon is mother of us all”

Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 146, 2025: “Metamorphosis of a 14-Year-Old Girl”

Arc Poetry Magazine, Issue 103, 2024: Essay on Sue Sinclair’s ‘Hey Nonny Nonny’

Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 136, 2022: “Andromeda”

Riddle Fence, Issue 42, 2021: “The Real Pleiades”


Other poems previously appeared in
The Malahat Review, Arc Poetry, Grain, Room, Southword, The Antigonish Review,
and elsewhere.

Read poems here:

Metamorphosis of a 14-Year Old Girl
from Poetry Ireland Review

Restaurant table set with glasses, plates, and a red baseball cap that says 'I'M NOT PERFECT' on it.

Harvest
League of Canadian Poet’s Poetry Pause

Andromeda
League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause

the stone
League of Canadian Poet’s Poetry Pause

“Ode to McCain’s Deep ‘n Delicious Cake”
Montreal International Poetry Prize Finalist

Snow-covered pine tree branches with mountains in the background on a foggy day.

Awards & Recognitions

Shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2026 Open Season Awards

Shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2023 Open Season Awards

Winner of subTerrain’s 2022 Lush Triumphant Literary Award

Runner-up in Riddle Fence’s 2021 Poetry Contest

Honorable mention, Leon E. and Ann M. Pavlick 2020 Poetry Prize

Shortlisted for the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize

Finalist for The Malahat Review’s 2020 Far Horizons Award

Shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2020 Poem of the Year Contest

Shortlisted for Room Magazine’s 2020 Poetry Contest

Shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2019 Open Season Award

Longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize

3rd place in The Antigonish Review’s 2019 Great Blue Heron Contest

Winner of the Glass Buffalo’s 2019 Poetry Contest

Critical Publications

“‘Hey Nonny Nonny.’” How Poems Work column. Arc Poetry Magazine, Issue 103, 2024. Print. 

“Agents against Their Erasure.” Canadian Literature. Review of Hearing More Voices: English-Canadian Women in Print and on the Air, 1914-1960 (Tecumseh Press), 21 Jun. 2022. Print and Web.

“What Words Carry.” Maisonneuve. Review of Selina Boan’s Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions). Spring 2021 Issue. Print and Web.

“Even the Ugly Ones.” Maisonneuve. Review of Bardia Sinaee’s Intruder (House of Anansi Press). Summer 2021 Issue. Print and Web.

“The Tragedy of Memory.” The Fiddlehead. Review of Curtis LeBlanc’s Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation (Nightwood Editions). Issue 284, 2020. Print.

“Multitudes of Selfhood.” Arc Poetry Magazine. Review of Madelaine Caritas Longman’s The Danger Model (McGill-Queen’s University Press). Issue 93, Fall 2020. Print.