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BOOKS
  • Debut collection of stories, Book*hug, 2021
  • I'm a Goddam Tree, a collaboration with Gary Barwin, Poems, Knife | Fork | Book, 2020
  • Some Theories, a collaboration with David Poolman, Drawings, Stories, Poems, Plays, One-liners, June 2017
  • The Purpose Pitch, Mansfield Press, "a stuart ross book," Poetry, Spring 2015
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ANTHOLOGIES
  • "A Laugh," "The House Fire," "The People Skirt," and "The Fight," Catherines, the Great, Oolichan Press, TBA
  • "The Daughter" and "A Laugh," Minola Review Print Anthology, March 2018
  • "All Side Effects, No Relief," Pac'n Heat, Fall 2016
  • "Pardon Me," 300 Hours a Minute: Poems About YouTube Videos, Desert Pets Press, September 24, 2015
  • "Murder,," "Serial Killers," "Environmentalism," and "The Bomb," Why Poetry Sucks: Humorous Avant-Garde and Post-Avant English Canadian Poetry, Edited by Jonathan Ball & Ryan Fizpatrick, Insomniac Press, 2014
  • "We Don't Usually Act This Way," Hybrid Beasts Anthology, Red Lemonade, Brooklyn online, Aug. 30, 2012
  • "Ghost," Feathertale's Big Book of Exquisitely Egregious Poetry and Diverse Versification and So Forth and Such, p. 42, Anthology,  June 2012
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REVIEWS​​
INTERVIEWS
  • Jennifer LoveGrove interviews me for her series on Writing Exercises for Open Book Ontario, April 16, 2017
  • Jonathan Ball interviews me about my poem "Serial Killers" from my second collection The Saddest Place on Earth, Jan. 11, 2016
  • Rachel Thompson from Room Magazine interviews me about The Rusty Toque, 2016
  • Renee Saklikar interviews me for thecanadaproject, September 2, 2015
  • Writers on TV Survey with Carey Toane, Open Book: Toronto, May 6, 2015
  • CHUO FM: with Mitchell Caplan, April 8, 2015
  • All Lit Up: Lisa de Nikolits interviewed me about The Purpose Pitch, March 11, 2015
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NONFICTION PUBLICATIONS
  • "The Ultimate Writing Tips Post, Open Book, July 31, 2019
  • "I Won't Clean the Tub," Geist Magazine, Issue 109, Vancouver, BC, Fall 2018
  • "Week 83 - Marianne Micros Presented by Kathryn Mockler," Brick Books in Celebration of Canadian Poetry, July 28, 2016
  • "Poetry Curious? New to Poetry? Check Out These Books," All Lit Up, April 29, 2015
  • Town Crier, The Puritan,  From the Vaults, January 23, 2014
  • "On Printing Out the Internet," Lemon Hound, July 26, 2013
  • "The Real Survivor," Red Lemonade, Brooklyn, NY, online, May 15, 2012
  • "The Botanical Project,"Interview with Hoang Pham, Ducts.org, New York, NY, Issue 23, Summer 2009
  • "The Reluctant Narrator," Interview by Jeremy Drummond, Ducts.org, New York, Issue 22, 2009
  • "Somewhere," YYZ Artist Outlet, 2009
  • "Vacancy Kit," Observatoire 4, Espace, 32, p. 40-41, Montreal, PQ, 1995
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FICTION PUBLICATIONS
  • "Skipping" and "The Past and the Future," COG, March 1, 2018
  • "The Job Interview: A Murder," Danforth Review, September 10, 2017
  • "Two Women on a Beach," Entropy Magazine, May 10, 2017
  • "Sit Down Beside Megan," Cosmonauts Avenue, 2nd Anniversary Issue, November 15, 2016
  • "All Side Effects, No Relief," Pac'n Heat, Fall 2016
  • "The Estrangement," Room, Issue 39.2, 2016
  • "You Should Write My Life Story," Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Sunday Stories, Feb 28, 2016
  • "The Boy is Dead," The Butter, May 8, 2015
  • "Freight," Found Press, Spring 2015
  • "Remote Control," Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, November 30, 2014
  • "Cry Baby," Joyland: a hub for short fiction, Vancouver, BC, September 1, 2011
  • "Thin Blue Snake," Nothing. No One. Nowhere., Texas, No. 1, January 2011
  • "Buddy Boy," Branch Magazine, Toronto, ON, Issue 4, 2011
  • "Sealed Containers," CellStories, USA, mobile publication, 2010
  • "Money," PIF, Kenmore, WA, fiction,  April 9th 2010
  • "Sealed Containers," Lies With Occasional Truth, Toronto, ON, Winter 2008,
  • "Brown Bottles," The Danforth Review, Toronto, ON, Issue 19, 2007
  • "Travellers," TransVerse 4, Toronto, ON, No. 4, p. 9-13, 2006
  • "A Young Boy on Whose Father a Tree Had Fallen," PRISMinternational, Vancouver No. 41:1, p. 45-50, 2002
  • "Lunch," Room of One's Own, Van., BC, No. 25: 1 & 2, p. 137-145, 2002
  • "Fishing," Stand Magazine, Leeds, UK, Volume 3 (2) & 3 (3), p. 21-25, 2002
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POETRY PUBLICATIONS
  • "Raccoons Have Poor Impulse Control," This Magazine, May, 2019
  • "Water," The Puritan, Issue 41: Spring 2018, June 12, 2018
  • "Question," Bad Nudes 3.2, May 4, 2018
  • "Sealed Containers," "No Legs or Arms," "World 3," "I Wish I Thought of Everything First," "World 5," and "Don't Disturb Me I'm Writing a Love Poem," Lemon Hound, March 15, 2018
  • "Children," "I Shit Here," "Date Night," and "The Swap," Dreamland, February 2017
  • "Untitled," 2017 Inaugural Poem, Ed. Stuart Ross, December 8, 2016
  • "I Beat Myself Up in My Sleep," Northern Testicle Review, Ed. Stuart Ross, November 2016
  • "The House Fire" and "The Sunburn," Public Pool, USA, August 25, 2016
  • "The Daughter" and "A Laugh," Minola Review: Issue 5, Toronto, ON, July 31, 2016
  • "When the World Ends," QWERTY, NO. 33, New Brunswick, December 2015
  • "The People Skirt," Longlist, Montreal International Poetry Prize, August 2015
  • "Your Poem Should Have Four Legs," Geist, 97, Vancouver, BC, July 2015
  • "The Bed," Matrix Magazine, Montreal, PQ, June 25, 2015
  • "A Woman Was Sexually Assaulted: April 30 - May 31, 2014" Advent 2014, Delirious Hem, Dec. 25, 2014
  • "The Dream House," Poetry is Dead, F/U/T/U/R/E , Issue 10, Vancouver, BC, p. 43, November 2014
  • "The Lamp and The Lightbulb," published in The Associative Press, Yukon, p. 5, Spring 2013  
  • "Environmentalism," "Twister," and "Pigeons," 49th Shelf, February 25, 2013
  • "White Snake," Papirmasse, Issue 38, Montreal, PQ, January 8, 2013 
  • "Malice," "The Country Fair," and "Air Vents" in the new Lemon Hound, Vol. 1, September 21, 2012
  • "Bus Ride" and "The Dog and the Laundromat," Pilot Pocket Books, Toronto, Issue X, p. 57-59, Aug 23, 2012
  • "Jesus Christ" and "Oprah," Descant, Toronto, ON, Issue 157, p. 33-34, June 2012
  • "Anti-depressants," "Rat Tail," "Ugly Girls," "Subway," "Lucky," The Windsor Review:  Filth Issue, Windsor, ON, Vol. 45, No. 1, p. 12-17, Spring 2012
  • "Pipeline," The Capilano Review, Ecology Issue, Vancouver, BC, No. 3.16, p. 67, January 2012
  • "Twister," Rattle Poetry's audio archive, 2012
  • "Companion," Geist, Erasure Poem Contest, Short List, Van., BC, Jan. 27, 2012
  • "Jackie Gleason," Montreal International Poetry Prize, Longlist Anthology, Véhicule Press, 2011
  • "Bookstore," HTMLGIANT, Sunday Service, USA, November 27, 2011
  • "Don't Take It Away," The Antigonish Review, Antigonish, NS, Issue 166,  p. 98, Summer 2011
  • "Pipeline," Enpipe Line, 2011
  • "Ghost," Feathertale, Toronto, ON, February 1, 2011
  • "About a Bully," The Toronto Quarterly, Toronto, ON, Issue 7, p. 23, April 201
  • "Twister," Rattle Poetry, Canadian Tribute Issue, San Francisco, CA, Issue 35, p. 100-, Summer 2011
  • "Swimming Lessons," Prose-Poem Project, Shelburne, VT, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 1, Spring 2011
  • "Global Warming" and "Gun Shots," The Puritan, , Ottawa, ON, Issue 9, Winter 2010
  • "The Wedding Reception" and "Rock Out," La Petite Zine, USA, Issue 23, 2010
  • Various, Audio, Wordsalad, 2009
  • "Thin Blue Snake," nthposition, October, 2009
  • "Weights" and "Cross-eyed," This Magazine, Toronto, ON, Vol 43, No. 1, p. 15, 2009
  • "Skinheads," Geist.com, Vancouver, BC, 2009
  • "Weight Watchers," Sub-TERRAIN, Vancouver, BC, No. 51, p. 29, 2009
  • "Skinheads," Pilot Pocket Books, Toronto, ON, No. 4, p. 62-72, 2008
  • "Lesley Aimes," The Antigonish Review, Antigonish, NS, No.154, p. 64-70, 2008
  • "Murder," Carousel Magazine, Guelph, ON, No. 23, p. 56, 2008
  • "Pillsbury Factory: 8 poems," Carte Blanche, Montreal, PQ, No. 7, online, 2008
  • "Pillsbury Factory: 3 poems," Misunderstandings Magazine, Toronto, ON, No. 9, p. 22-24, 2008
  • "The Saddest Place on Earth," The Salzburg Poetry Review, Salzburg, Austria, No. 13, p. 104-107, 2008
  • "McGuinnis Lake" and "January," Descant, Toronto, ON, Volume 37, No. 2, p. 89-91, 2006
  • "Jim 1940, 1950, 1980," Pottersfield Portfolio, Sydney, NS, Volume 22, No. 2, p. 29, 2002
  • "Pillsbury Factory" The Fiddlehead, Fredericton, NB, No. 209, p. 32-41, 2001
  • "Untitled," Utne Reader, Minneapolis, MN, reprint, No. 84, p. 18, 1997
  • "Untitled," Geist Magazine, Vancouver, BC, No. 25 & 26, p. 5 & p. 32, 1997
  • "I've Seen This" and "Mid-February," The Antigonish Review, Antigonish, NS, No. 25, p. 148-149, 1995
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FILMOGRAPHY
  • The Old Ways, 15 minutes, 16mm, Co-writer, 2010
  • Three Vignettes, 4 minutes, HD, Writer/Co-director/Co-producer, 2010
  • Reindeer in the Mountains, 8 minutes, DV, Writer/Co-director/Co-producer, 2008
  • Umbrella, Bravo!Fact, 5 minutes, HD, Writer/Co-producer, 2008
  • The Reluctant Narrator, 11 minutes, DV, Writer/Co-director/Co-producer, 2007
  • Skinheads, 16 minutes, 35 mm, Colour, Canadian Film Centre & NBC/Universal, Writer, 2006
  • Spoonfed, 15 minutes, 35 mm, Colour, Canadian Film Centre & NBC/Universal, Writer, 2006
  • If I See Randy Again…, 15 minutes, 35 mm, Colour, CFC & NBC/Universal, Story Editor, 2006
  • Lingering, Writer/Dirctor: Anneli Ekborn, short film, SFU, Story Editor, 2002
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AWARDS
  • Female Eye Film Festival, Script Development Program, November 7-10, 2019
  • Quarterfinalist, BlueCat Screenplay Competition, If I Can't Be Happy, 2018
  • Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Piss Tank, 2016
  • Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Weak People Are Fun to Torment, 2016
  • Second Round, Sundance Screenwriting Lab, Piss Tank, 2015
  • Longlist, Montreal International Poetry Prize, "The People Skirt," 2015
  • Top 10%, Blue Cat Screenwriting Contest, Piss Tank, 2015
  • Quarterfinalist, American Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest, Piss Tank, 2014
  • Second Round, Austin Film Festival, Screenplay Competition, Piss Tank, 2014
  • Finalist, Heavy Feather Review Chapbook Contest, Rip the Tits & Other Stories, 2014
  • CBC Poetry Prize, Longlist, Ice Fishing, Neighbours, Stones, Looking for Crayfish, 2012
  • ReLit Awards, Longlist, Poetry, Onion Man, 2012
  • Finalist, Kraft Media Prize and the WPA Experimental Media Prize, Curated by DJ Spooky, 2011
  • Quarterfinalist in BlueCat Screenplay Competition, Piss Tank, 2010
  • SFFS/Djerassi Residency Screenwriting Fellowship, Weak People Are Fun to Torment, 2010
  • Finalist in CBC Literary Awards, Poetry, Onion Man, 2010
  • Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, Silver Remi Award Winner, Skinheads, 2007
  • Quarterfinalist, ASA's 10th Annual International Screenplay Competition, Piss Tank, 2007
  • The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, Awarded: InVision Prize, Skinheads, 2007
  • Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, Nominated for Best Drama, Spoonfed, 2007
  • Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, Gold Remi Award Winner, Spoonfed, 2007
  • Euroshorts International Festival of Short Film, Awarded: Special Merit Award, Skinheads , 2006
  • Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, Piss Tank, 2005
  • Finalist for Arc Magazine's Poem of the Year Contest, 2002
  • Finalist in CBC Radio & Saturday Night Magazine Can. Literary Awards, A Young Boy on Whose Father a Tree Had Fallen, 2000    
  • Jack Hodgins Award for the Sage Hill Summer Experience, 2000
  • Third Prize in the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, Fishing, 1999
  • Semifinalist, Academy Award Foundation's Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, Piss Tank, 1999
  • Praxis Summer Screenplay Readings Workshop, Piss Tank, 1998
  • Praxis Spring Screenwriting Competition, Piss Tank, 1999
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Toronto Screenwriting Conference, 2019
  • From Schtick to Script, Original Sitcom Pilot Writing, 2018
  • Toronto Screenwriting Conference, 2018
  • Corey Mandell Workshops: Advanced Screenwriting Workshop and Organic Story Structure, 2017
  • Toronto Screenwriting Conference., Toronto, ON, 2017
  • Corey Mandell Workshops: Professional Screenwriting and TV Writing Workshop, 2016
  • Toronto Screenwriting Conference, Toronto, ON 2016
  • AWP, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Seattle, WA, 2014
  • AWP, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Boston, MA, 2013
  • AWP, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Chicago, IL, 2012
  • Toronto Screenwriting Conference, Toronto, ON, 2011
  • Toronto Screenwriting Conference, Toronto, ON, 2010
  • Canadian Screen Training Centre: SIFT, Directing, Ottawa, ON, 2008
  • Canadian Film Centre, Film Resident Program, Writers' Lab, Toronto, ON, 2005
  • Praxis Story Editor Apprenticeship, Praxis Centre for Screenwriters, Vancouver, BC, 2001
  • University of British Columbia, M.F.A, Creative Writing, Vancouver, BC, 1998
  • Concordia University, B.A, Honours English & Creative Writing, Montreal, PQ, 1994
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WRITING RESIDENCIES AND LABS
  • Vermont Studio Center, 2015
  • San Francisco Film Society/Djerassi Residency Award, 2010
  • Toronto International Film Festival, Talent Lab, 2006
  • Banff Centre for the Arts, Fiction Writing Studio, 2001
  • Sage Hill Writing Experience, Fiction Workshop, 2000
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MEMBERSHIPS
  • AWP, Association of Writers and Writing Programs
  • CWILA, Canadian Women in the Literary Arts
  • League of Canadian Poets
  • WGC, Writers Guild of Canada