C.V.

Education/Residencies

  • 2024

Sage Hill Writing Experience

  • 2023

Banff Centre Literary Residency: Summer Writers’ Retreat

  • 2020-2022

Graphic Design, Holland College

  • 2018

Banff Centre Literary Residency: Emerging Writers’ Intensive (novel, Michael Lowenthal)

  • 2015-2017

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, University of Guelph

  • 2016

Banff Centre Literary Residency: EWI (poetry, Liz Phillips)

  • 2015

The Insider’s Guide to Writing and Publishing for Young Readers, Humber College and Holland College

  • 2014-2015

Fundamental Arts, Holland College

  • 2014

Banff Centre Literary Residency, Writing With Style (poetry, Lorna Crozier)

  • 2008-2013

BSc Psychology, with Honours, University of Prince Edward Island


Awards

  • 2022

Winner, BMO FirstArt! Award, Fisherman’s Repose (digital illustration on PVC)

  • 2020

Shortlist, PEI Book Awards, What Your Hands Have Done (Poetry)

  • 2019

Shortlist, ReLit Awards, What Your Hands Have Done (Poetry)

  • 2016

Winner, gritLIT poetry contest

  • 2016

Shortlist, gritLIT short fiction contest

  • 2015

Winner, Cox & Palmer Island Literary Award, Creative Non-fiction

  • 2015

Winner, Milton Acorn Award for Poetry

  • 2014

Winner, Cox & Palmer ILA, Short Fiction


Publications

  • 2025

Forecast: Pretty Bleak (poetry collection forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart in March 2025)

  • 2024

Short Fiction: Best Canadian Short Stories 2025 (Biblioasis), “We’ve Cherished Nothing”

  • 2024

Poetry: The Buzz “Love Letter Written in a PEI Spring”

  • 2024

Poetry: OOPAT press pamphlet “All This Is”

  • 2023

Short Fiction: Brick 112, “We’ve Cherished Nothing”

  • 2023

Nonfiction: Brick 111, “A Hard Year for Birds”

  • 2021

Short Fiction: Best Canadian Short Stories 2021 (Biblioasis), “What Would You Do?”

  • 2021

Poetry: The BUZZ “Crow Piss: A Pantoum”

  • 2021

Poetry: The Antigonish Review “Dirt”

  • 2020

Poetry: “The Heart is a Knot” in Watch Your Head anthology (Coach House Books)

  • 2020

Poetry: The Fiddlehead No. 285 “Cutting Bait”, “This Word”

  • 2020

Short Fiction: The Fiddlehead No. 283 “What Would You Do?” 

  • 2019

Nonfiction: Edizoni Black Coffee-Italian translation of “Nothing but Water”(November)

  • 2019

Poetry, THE BUZZ, “How Could You Forget This?”

  • 2018

Nonfiction: The Town Crier “Dirt Under the Nail” 

  • 2018

Nonfiction: Brick (November issue) “Nothing But Water

  • 2018

Short fiction: FreeFall (fall) “Elmira, PEI” 

  • 2018

Poetry: Grain Magazine (fall) “The Right Ones Aren’t Talking”

  • 2018

What Your Hands Have Done: Poems (Poetry Collection, Nightwood Editions

  • 2016

gritLIT Anthology How Exhilarating and How Close 

  • 2016

Book Review: The Town Crier “Chris Reads Green Gables” 


Interviews, Readings, Workshops & Appearances

  • 2023

Reading (with performances by Alicia Toner, Pascal Miousse, and Shane Pendergast) Jack Pine Folk Club

  • 2022

Interview about BMO 1stArt! 2022, CBC’s Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie

  • 2022

Fisherman’s Repose on display as part of BMO 1stArt! 2020 Exhibition at the University of Toronto

  • 2022

Interview with BMO 1stArt! about Fisherman’s Repose

  • 2022

Workshop Leader, Gremlins in the Fusebox: Poetry as the Seat of Experience, for Wild Threads Literary Festival

  • 2022

Reading (with performances by Patrick Bunston, Liam Corcoran, and Pressgang Mutiny), Jack Pine Folk Club

  • 2022
  • 2020

Interview/reading, CBC’s Mainstreet PEI

  • 2020

Interview/reading, Lee Ellen Pottie’s Schmoozing With Poets

  • 2020

InterviewAll Lit Up’s Read the Provinces

  • 2020

Interview, Invisible Books’ Invisiblog

  • 2019
  • 2019

Reading at King Street Books in Hamilton, Ontario

  • 2019

Reading, The International Festival of Authors’ Battle of the Bards

  • 2019

Reading as part of Poets & Pints in Charlottetown PEI

  • 2019

Dual reading/Performance with Kyp Harness and Daniel Morningstar at Hamilton’s Art Bar

  • 2019

Reading, Hamilton’s Lit Live reading series

  • 2019

Reading, Toronto’s Art Bar Poetry Series

  • 2019

Interview with The Fussy Librarian

  • 2019

Reading, Frostbite in Toronto

  • 2018

Reading, launch for Brick magazine

  • 2018

Reading, Toronto’s Pivot reading series

  • 2018

Reading/interview on Howl radio

  • 2018

Reading/book launch, Toronto’s Knife Fork Book

  • 2018

Appearance on podcast Get Lit

  • 2018

Reading and discussion as part of SMU’s reading series

  • 2018

Reading, UPEI’s Winter Tales reading series

  • 2018

Reading and interview, CBC’s Mainstreet PEI

  • 2018

Panel discussion and reading, Reading Town PEI: An Evening with GG Award Winning Poet Richard Harrison

  • 2015

Self-directed Artist Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point

  • 2015

Live poetry reading, CBC Radio

  • 2015

Visual art displayed in Moving Still, showcase at Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, PEI

  • 2013

Delegate and presenter at the Mount Allison University Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference