awards & fellowships

  • 2024 Trillium Book Award, Ontario Creates, Finalist, Anecdotes, 2024
  • 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, Writers' Union of Canada, Short List, ​Anecdotes, 2024
  • Montreal International Poetry Prize, Longlist, The People Skirt, 2015
  • Heavy Feather Review Chapbook Contest, Finalist, 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
  • Geist Erasure Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, Companion, 2011
  • Montreal International Poetry Prize, Longlist, Jackie Gleason, 2011
  • CBC Literary Awards, Poetry, Finalist, Onion Man, 2010
  • Banff Centre for the Arts, Fiction Writing Studio, 2001
  • Sage Hill Writing Experience, Fiction Workshop, 2000
  • Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship, 1998

NONFICTION

  • Behind the Story, "I Won't Clean the Tub," Book*hug Blog, October 13, 2023
  • "7 Tragicomic Books That I Love," 49th Shelf, October 2, 2023
  • "On Not Wanting Children," Catapult Magazine, November 15, 2022
  • Profile, “Rita Wong: A Poet’s Call for Environmental Action,” Quill & Quire, June, 2021
  • "I Won't Clean the Tub," Geist, Issue 109, Vancouver, BC, Fall 2018
  • "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
  • "The Real Survivor," Red Lemonade, Brooklyn, NY, online, May 15, 2012​​

FICTION

  • "When the Sun Goes Down," Litter I See Project, July 1, 2023
  • “Let’s Say,” Micro-Climate Stories, Guelph Institute for Environmental Research, March 5, 2021​
  • "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
  • "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​​​​

poetry

  • “When a Tree Develops Problems,” Windsor Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, March, 2022
  • "Tumble in the Hay," "Dark Thoughts," and "I Should Have Invited Him In," Fence Magazine, Winter 2021
  • "Water," Poetry Pause, League of Canadian Poets, June 22, 2020
  • "Blue Teacup," Arc Magazine, 91, March 2020
  • "Raccoons Have Poor Impulse Control," This Magazine, May, 2019
  • 4 Poems, The Chicago Review, #METOO, 2018
  • "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​
  • "Your Poem Should Have Four Legs," Geist, 97, Vancouver, BC, July 2015
  • "Malice," "The Country Fair," and "Air Vents" in the new Lemon Hound, Vol. 1, September 21, 2012
  • "Jesus Christ" and "Oprah," Descant, Toronto, ON, Issue 157, p. 33-34, June 2012​
  • "Pipeline," The Capilano Review, Ecology Issue, Vancouver, BC, No. 3.16, p. 67, January 2012
  • "Bookstore," HTMLGIANT, Sunday Service, Ed. Melissa Broader, USA, November 27, 2011​​