Bio

I worked as a freelance editor for two decades, and then started work as a teacher before making time for my own creative writing. Poetry was love at first sight. My poems have since appeared in a variety of literary journals and public projects. I was longlisted for the 2023 Room Poetry Contest and the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize. I won the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest and was a finalist for the FBCW 2022 Literary Contest and the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize. My first chapbook, In the Warm Shallows of What Remains (Raven Chapbooks, 2024), was the winner of the 2024 Raven Chapbooks Poetry Contest. I've just completed my MFA at the University of British Columbia and am working on finishing a YA novel in verse. I live in Victoria, B.C., the traditional territory of the Lekwungen peoples, with my family and cats.

Recognition

Honorable Mention for Arts & Letters Club of Toronto Foundation Poetry Award, 2024
Selected for City of Victoria’s Public Poetry Remix Project, 2024
Selected for Poetry in Transit, 2024
Winner of Raven Chapbooks 2024 Poetry Chapbook Contest
Longlisted for Room Magazine’s 2023 Poetry Contest
Longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest
Longlisted for the 2022 BC Federation of Writers Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2022 Bridport Poetry Prize
Recipient of SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship Masters Award, 2022
Honorable Mention for Arc Poetry Magazine’s Arc Award of Awesomeness, September 2022
Longlisted for the PRISM international 2020 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize
Shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize
Finalist for The Malahat Review 2020 Far Horizons Award