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
Reading, A Poetry Night at The Gallery with Deirdre Kessler, Charlottetown, PEI
- 2020
Interview/reading, CBC’s Mainstreet PEI
- 2020
Interview/reading, Lee Ellen Pottie’s Schmoozing With Poets
- 2020
Interview, All Lit Up’s Read the Provinces
- 2020
Interview, Invisible Books’ Invisiblog
- 2019
Appearance on Page Fright: A Literary Podcast
- 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