humble brags
Poetry Collection, Suggestions, Gaspereau Press, (Forthcoming, Aug. 2026)
• These personal and environmental poems wrap whole life experiences in phrases and overlap poetry with prose, humor with poignancy, and plainspokenness with emotional depth.
Nominated for 2026 Pushcart Prize, Dec. 2025
• 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.
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.
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.
prose
Subtropics, Issue 38, Fall-Winter 2025
•”One Frame More,” a 4000-word essay about a mystery from my childhood and why I don’t have a dog.
Yolk Literary Journal, Volume 5.1, Dec. 2025
• The Elements,” a 3000-word essay that meditates on water, air, earth, and fire—these are the elements behind a troublemaking toilet, misbehaving airline passengers, a dog thief, and rockets overhead. It asks the question, What does it mean to be a good neighbor?
Another Chicago Magazine, Nov. 2025
•“The Butcher’s Son,” a 5400-word essay that centers on the one time my father lost his cool. It poses the question, Do nice guys get what they deserve?
Prairie Fire, Volume 46.3, Fall 2025
•”Extinction Event of a Personal Nature,” a 4400-word essay on apocalypses, home baked cookies, sub-par parenting, an island teeming with Mikes, and space aliens.
JMWW, May 2025
•”Odometers,” a 2000-word essay on twenty-first century fatherhood.
Longreads, Mar. 2025
• “Tattoos,” a 2200-word exploration of the ways memory, history, and identity are inscribed—on skin, in silence, and through generations. In the Apr. 1 issue of The Audacity, Roxane Gay wrote, “This was a beautiful essay on tattoos that are not chosen and how they shape our lives.”
The Normal School, Nov. 2024
• “The Third-Best Clown in New York,” a 4400-word essay on experiences with my former roommate, a professional clown.
The Masters Review, June 2024
• “Don’t Smile,” a 4000-word essay on my first year of teaching.
The Dalhousie Review, Issue 103.3
• “House Fire,” a 4200-word short story based on my novel Junior Slump.
Jabberwock Review, Issue 44.2, Winter/Spring 2024
• “Invitations,” a 3000-word essay on Nixon’s grudge with my father. It was mentioned as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2025.
poetry
Chautauqua, Saying It Plain: An American Patchwork, Summer 2025
• One poem: “Joker.”
The Southern Review, Volume 61.2, Spring 2025
• One poem: “Photographic.”
carte blanche, Issue 51, June 2025
• One poem: “Monet probably had prosopagnosia.”
J Journal, Volume 18.1, Spring 2025
• One poem: “Post.”
Peatsmoke Journal, Oct. 2024
• One poem: “I-5.”
Potomac Review, Issue 75, Fall 2024
• One poem: “Whyte Beach.”
Grain, Issue 51.4, Summer 2024
• One poem: “No more tapioca.” • Contributor spotlight.
The Malahat Review, Issue 227, Summer 2024
• Two poems: “Misc” and “Vultures.”
New World Writing Quarterly, July 2024
• Five poems: “Paintings,” “Cells,” “You tell me you will not tell me because…,” “Love poem written at 23, revised by the middle-aged gardener I have become,” and “Wavelength.”
Punt Volat, Flight 8, Summer 2024
• One poem: “The crabs of Christmas Island.“
The Humber Literary Review, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring + Summer 2024
• Three poems: “An aside,” “Shifts,” and “After I walked you home and still had no courage to kiss you.”
Acta Victoriana, Issue 148.1, Apr. 2024
• Two poems: “For richer or for poorer” and “To the capitalist time is money but to me time is time, he said.”
The Palisades Review, Apr. 2024
• One poem: “The distance between us was once the thickness of a floor.”
Queen’s Quarterly, Volume 131.1-3, Spring, Summer, Fall 2024
• Three poems: “Haifa,” “Whatever is left of my figs are yours,” and “Galilee.”
The Nashwaak Review, Volume 50/51, Mar. 2024
• Three poems: “Diagnosis,” “Fitting,” and “Changing Back.”
Cherry Tree, Issue 10, Feb. 2024
• Two poems: “Henry turns one hundred” and “Retrievable.”
forthcoming words
Copper Nickel (Forthcoming, Issue 42, Spring 2026)
• Two short pieces: “Root Canal” and “Time Zones.”
On Occasion: Poems for the People (Forthcoming, Coach House Press, Spring 2026)
•One poem, “Misc,” in the anthology.
Third Coast (Forthcoming)
• One poem.
The Glacier (Forthcoming)
• Four poems: “Homonyms,” “Corona,” “Bad choices,” and “Winter.”
Passages North (Forthcoming, Issue 48, Spring 2027)
• One short piece in three sections: “Not Much of a Talker.”
events
Words in the Burbs North Shore in N Van, BC, Sep. 16, 2025
• Read the poems “Geography,” “No more tapioca,” and “The day my son heard about mortality” at Delaney’s Coffee House.
Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose, California, Aug. 13, 2025
• Read the poem “No eulogy” at the curated hybrid event.
Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose, California, Feb. 18, 2025
• Read the poem “The Sugar” at the curated hybrid event.
Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose, California, May 8, 2024
• Read the poem “Henry turns one hundred” at the curated hybrid event.
Cherry Tree launch party, Feb 29, 2024
• Read the poem “Retrievable.”
