Publications/CV

SELECTED POETRY

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• The Day Shane MacGowan Died, Contemporary Verse 2, Spring 2025

• Almanac, pacificREVIEW 2025, the AFTER:words Issue, May 2025

• The Air Itself Is One Vast Library, ROOM Magazine, April 2025

• 5 poems in talking about strawberries all of the time, April 2025

• Ambient, The New Quarterly, Issue 173, Winter 2025

• Orinoco & Last Supper, The Malahat Review Issue 228, November 2024

• 3 poems in SAPP: a poetry zine, Vol 2. November 2024

• Outpatient, Pinhole Poetry, October 11, 2024

• Geomorphology, QWERTY, Issue 49, August 2024, order here​

• Sky Wizards, Consilience, Issue 17, June 2024

• Mother Lode, Moist Poetry Journal, April 2024

• Transformer Stone, Poetry Pause, March 2024

• Better Left Wanting, Funicular Magazine,  Issue 13, February/March 2024

• Avocado, Crab Creek Review, The Spring Crab Vol. 2, October, 2023

• 2 poems in The Quarter(ly) Journal, Let's Go to the Movies​, June 2023

• How to Recover, Rogue Agent Journal, Issue 99, June 2023

• Life is for Auteurs on printed card via p a g e f i f t y o n e, April 2023

• I BUILD A MONOLITH, Poetry Pause April 10, 2023

• Gillnet & Outermost Layer, The Humber Literary Review, Fall + Winter 2022/23

• Four Corners to my Bed & Faith, Train Poetry Journal (print), December 2022

• The Message of the Empty Tomb, Gap Riot Press for KFB's Fertile Festival, August 2022

• 05.03.22 Fraser River, Red Alder Review​, July 2022

• Whose Body Is It, Plants & Poetry, June 2022

• 4 poems SORTES Magazine, June 2022

• I’ll Come Back as a Strathearn Paperweight, Poetry Pause​, May 2022

• Money Tree, Pinhole Poetry, April 2022​ 

• The Meteorite, The South Shore Review, December 2021

• Word Garden, Saltwater Taffy, Proven Objects, New Ceilings, Blank Spaces Magazine, December 2021

 

 

CHAPBOOKS

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• shine like a dime in the dirt under the moon, Pinhole Poetry, Spring 2026

• intent on flowering with Katie Jeresky and Penn Kemp via Rose Garden Press, January 2024 order here. Launch hosted by WordsFestival, February 10, 2024 recording here

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CONTESTS

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• Winner, 2025 Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize “Made of Holes” & honourable mention “Black Holes" 

• Winner, RCLAS 2025  Write On! Contest, Poetry, “Gillnet"

• Third Place Winner, ROOM Magazine 2024 Poetry Contest, The Air Itself Is One Vast Library

• Winner of the 2024 League of Canadian Poets National Broadsheet Contest, "Transformer Stone"

• Semi-finalist for Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest, What You Exceed

• Honourable mention for The New Quarterly's 2024 Nick Blatchford Contest

• Finalist for The Fiddlehead's 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest: "The Air Itself Is One Vast Library"

• Longlisted for Surrey Muse's 2023 Vera Manuel Award for Poetry: "Skalsh Rock"

• 1st Place Winner for Poetry, RCLAS 2022 Write On Contest: The Interloper

• 2022 Best of the Net & Pushcart Prize nomination for Transmission of Joy, Blue Heron Review Spring Issue 14

• 2022 Pushcart nomination for "The Modern Prometheus" in Lamplit Underground Vol. 7: Burial at Sea

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ANTHOLOGIZED POETRY

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• “Outpatient”, Pinhole Poetry Volume Three selected, print edition, 2025

• "Time Out",  Kinds of Cool: A Collection of Jazz Poetry, Jerry Jazz Musician and Unsolicited Press, January 2025

• "On the Front Lines at the Court of Death", Fire from the Heart 2024: Winners of the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, Three Oceans Press, December 2024. Order here

• 5 poems, emerge 23: The Writer's Studio Anthology, SFU, October 2023

• 4 poems, Framework of the Human Body anthology, Bell Press Books, Fall 2022

• "Uptown Food Court", A Journey Across New Westminster by Word: A Poetry of Place (Ed. Alan Hill), 2020

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REVIEWS/CRITICAL

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• The White Light of Tomorrow by Russell Thornton, periodicities, September 2023

• Pain in the Reverie: What is a good poem and how does it begin? periodicities, July 2025

 

WORKSHOPS

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• ​​Embracing the Non-Linear: Mapping toward your poem. Nov 12, 2023 

• Writing session for Downtown East Side Writer's Collective, November 2023, February 2024

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PROJECTS/MEDIA

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• River Stones National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Project, Film Shooters Collective, April 2021

• RCLAS Co-operative Poem We Came from the Forest, Wordplay at Work, April 2021

• RCLAS Co-operative Poem, Bridging the Gap, Wordplay at Work, April, 2022

• Eh Poetry podcast, July 23, 2022

• Jerry Jazz Musician: Sunday Poem: First Light recording, January 29, 2023

• Gotta Pop! Podcast: Pet Sounds & Brian Wilson's Smile, May 2024

• Reading of “Ambient” for The New Quarterly, March 2025

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INTERVIEWS

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• Tiny Spoon, January 2022

• Riddled with Arrows, March 2022

• Train Poetry Journal, July 2022

• Pinhole Poetry, October 2024

• talking about strawberries all of the time, October 2025

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SELECTED READINGS

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• Surrey Muse 10th Anniversary, November 29, 2021

• Décollage for Tiny Spoon’s cut/copy/paste issue video presentation, January 2022

• Surrey Muse Open Mic Opener February 25, 2022

• RCLAS & Federation of BC Writers Regional Spotlight feature, April 26, 2022

• SORTES Magazine Reading Series, Issue 10, June 24, 2022

• Surrey MUSE Virtual Gathering, July 22, 2022

• Feature, New Westminster Poetry in the Park, August 10, 2022

• Strangers on a Train series, Department of English at Langara College, January 31, 2023

• Framework of the Human Body anthology Bell Press Books virtual launch, February 11, 2023

• Pinhole Poetry Vol. 1 Launch, June 8, 2023

• RCLAS Poetry in the Park, Host, July 19 & August 30, 2023

• Crab Creek Review, The Spring Crab, Vol. 2 Launch, October 12, 2023

• RCLAS Poetic Justice reading with Alan Hill & Aidan Chafe, Oct 15, 2023

• emerge 23. Launch at Vancouver Writer's Fest, Granville Island, Oct 22, 2023

• Intent on Flowering via WordsFestival, February 10, 2024 

• Poetic Justice feature with Jónína Kirton via RCLAS and The New Westminster Public Library, May 12, 2024

• Reader for Dead Poets Reading Series, Massy Arts Gallery, July 14, 2024

• Reader for RCLAS: In Their Words, August 29, 2024

• SAPP: a poetry zine, Vol 2. Launch at Wildfires Bookshop, November 16, 2024

• National Poetry Month Poetry + Art Salon, Saturday, April 12, 2025 at Anvil Centre

• SAPP: a poetry zine​, Volume 3 launch, September 13, 2025 at Wildfires Bookshop

• Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize Winners, Word Vancouver, September 14, 2025

 

EDUCATION

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• SFU, The Writer's Studio Creative Writing Certificate

• Master of Arts: English, Simon Fraser University

• Bachelor of Arts: English, SFU

 

MEMBERSHIPS/Board/Editorial

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• League of Canadian Poets - Full Member

• Director, Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS)

• Editorial Director, Sapperton Community Arts Association

• Member, English Program Advisory Committee, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

• First Reader for EVENT Magazine