humble brags

Poetry Collection, Suggestions, Gaspereau Press (2026)
• Suggestions is a Venn diagram that overlaps poetry with prose, environmental matters with personal concerns, humour with poignancy, and everyday language with emotional depth. Unassuming, playful, and wise, these prose poems show us how the past and memory continually shape our lives. • Here is a review from The British Columbia Review.

Nominated for a 2026 Pushcart Prize
• The short essay, “Tattoos,” was put forth by the editors of Longreads.

Notable Mention, The Best American Essays 2025
• The essay, “Invitations” (Jabberwock Review), is cited as a Notable Essay in the anthology.

Finalist, Black Lawrence Press‘s Black River Chapbook Competition, Sep. 2026
• Selection of four essays was chosen as a finalist.

Canada Council for the Arts, Jan. 2025-Dec. 2025
• Earned one-year research and creation grant.

Finalist, Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers, June 2025
• In “Homework,” I reveal the time I was in middle school and interviewed my tough neighbor, Mrs. Stern, about the hardest moments in her life. It did not go well (announcement here). The essay was later published in EPOCH.

PLAYA Writing Residency, Summer Lake, Oregon, May 2025
• Selected writer-in-residence for one month at PLAYA’s arts and sciences colony.

Winner, The Meridian Short Prose Prize, Issue No. 48, May 2024
• “No eulogy,” a prose poem that revisits a moment in time with Uncle Larry. • Prize announcement can be found here.

Winner, PRISM international’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, Jan. 2024
• “Young Bird,” an 1100-word piece on parenting and how a youngest child fits into the family constellation through the lens of nature docs on barbarous birds. • Suzannah Showler’s judge’s essay can be found here.