Publications/CV
EDUCATION
SFU, The Writer's Studio 2022-2023
Master of Arts: English, Simon Fraser University
Bachelor of Arts: English, SFU
SELECTED POETRY
Baby Teeth & Whiplash Rat’s Ass Review, Winter 2021
Taking Shape Bewildering Stories, #907 June 2021, Editor’s Choice
Word Garden, Saltwater Taffy, Proven Objects, New Ceilings, Blank Spaces Magazine, December 2021
The Meteorite, The South Shore Review, December 2021
Disintegration Loops, Green Age, I Deleted it All, Dream Pop Journal, March 2022
The Body is a Fantastical Story, Steep your Verse, Riddled with Arrows 5th Anniversary Spotlight, March 2022
Money Tree, Pinhole Poetry, April 2022
Transmission of Joy, Blue Heron Review, Spring 2022
The Pink Cloud, Lunar Debutante, Digit Spaces, AntilangMag, Spring 2022
First Light, Jerry Jazz Musician, May 2022
I’ll Come Back as a Strathearn Paperweight, Poetry Pause, May 20, 2022
5 poems, Lover's Eye Press, May 2022
How to Scale a Fish, Cosmic Microwave Background, Post-mortem on Heart Idioms, SORTES Magazine, June 2022
Facts about Colors, All of These Gentle Things, Willows Wept Review, June 2022
Whose Body Is It, Plants & Poetry, June 2022
Faith, Train Poetry Journal, June 20, 2022
Modern Prometheus & We Come to the River at Night, Lamplit Underground, 2022
05.03.22 Fraser River, Red Alder Review, July 2022
3 poems and monotypes, Misery Tourism, August 2022
The Message of the Empty Tomb broadside for Knife|Fork|Book's Fertile Festival 2022, Gap Riot Press, August 2022
Funeral Flowers, Jersey Devil Press, Issue 118, October 2022
Four Corners to my Bed & Faith, Train Poetry Journal, December 2022 (print: Train: a journal unlucky in love)
Gillnet & Outermost Layer, The Humber Literary Review, Fall + Winter 2022/23
I BUILD A MONOLITH, Poetry Pause April 10, 2023
Life is for Auteurs on printed card via p a g e f i f t y o n e
CONTESTS/NOMINATIONS
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
JUDGING
Poetry Judge for Write On! 2023 Contest, Royal City Literary Arts Society
INTERVIEWS
Tiny Spoon, January 2022
Riddled with Arrows, 5th Anniversary Spotlight, March 2022
Pinhole Poetry, April 2022
Train Poetry Journal, July 2022
ANTHOLOGIZED POETRY
Uptown Food Court, A Journey Across New Westminster by Word: A Poetry of Place (Ed. Alan Hill), 2020
Barefoot Grammar, Analog, The Scabs, The Heat, Framework of the Human Body anthology, Bell Press Books, Fall 2022
ESSAYS
Vorfreude: Enthusiasm Is Survival, Andoumboulou / Vorfreude - A ShabdAaweg Anthology, ShabdAawegPress, April 2021
A Light That Never Goes Out, ShabdAaweg, June 2021
PROJECTS/MEDIA
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
Spot on Eh Poetry podcast, July 23, 2022
Jerry Jazz Musician: Sunday Poem: First Light recording, January 29, 2023
MEMBERSHIPS
Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS)
League of Canadian Poets-Associate
READINGS:
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
UPCOMING:
Poem via Michigan State University Libraries Short Édition
Poem in Rogue Agent Journal, June, 2023
RCLAS Poetry in the Park, Host July 19, 2023
Poetry chapbook coming in 2023 through Rose Garden Press
2 poems in The Quarter(ly) Journal
Art & Photos by Jessica Lee McMillan