I immigrated to Canada in the early 1980s with my parents and sister. I grew up in northern Alberta until just after high school, moved to Vancouver B.C. for university, and spent a decade on the coast. I lived a short period in San Francisco, but after a year and a half, I moved to Alaska where I spent seven years between Fairbanks and Anchorage. I now live in northern B.C., the traditional and continuously used lands of the Wetʼsuwetʼen Nation.
I’ve published poetry in a variety of literary journals including Inlandia, About Place Journal, Prairie Fire, december magazine, Rock & Sling, The Louisville Review, The Hopper, Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, among others; fiction in The Hopper, subTerrain and Broken Pencil; nonfiction in The Whitefish Review, untethered magazine, Grain, Pilgrimage, and High Country News.
I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia (UBC).
RECOGNITION
Backbone Press Annual Chapbook Prize - First Place: https://backbonepress.org/news/
“Bloodwater Tint” - order here! https://backbonepress.org/titles/bloodwater-tint/
Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize Shortlist:
“Origin of Language”
Witness Literary Awards in Nonfiction Finalist:
“Seed of Becoming: A Story in Multiple Bodies”
Nominated for the Best of the Net 2022:
Agapanthus Collective for the poem: “fault line under Ceal Smith”
Nominated for the Best of the Net 2021:
The Hopper for the short story: “Hunting with my father”
About Place Journal for the poem: “Upon being told these were former lands”
Nominated for the Best of the Net 2020:
The Hopper for the poem: “I become then”
Gingerbread House Literary Magazine for the poem: “rabbit-heart”
Alaska Statewide Poetry Contest 2019, Third Place Winner for the poem: Administrative Order No. 300
Judged by Vivian Faith-Prescott
https://fairbanksarts.org/2019/04/04/poetry-contest-here-are-the-winners/
RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
April 2022 Sitka Center for Art & Ecology: poetry
March 2020 Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Cave Creek, Arizona
January 2021 Finalist for the Summer Fishtrap Fellowship
November 2019 UCROSS Foundation: poetry
November 2019 Vermont Studio Center (declined)
December 2018 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts: poetry, fiction
August 2017 Wrangell Mountains Center Meg Hunt Residency: poetry