CV/Events

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

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SELECTED POETRY

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

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

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

• The Laws of Reflection, Water edition, Michigan State University Libraries Short Édition​​​​

• 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, December 2022 (print: Train: a journal unlucky in love)

• Funeral Flowers, Jersey Devil Press, Issue 118, October 2022

• The Message of the Empty Tomb broadside for Knife|Fork|Book's Fertile Festival, Gap Riot Press, August 2022

• 3 poems & monotypes, Misery Tourism, August 2022

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

• Modern Prometheus & We Come to the River at Night, Lamplit Underground, July 2022

• Faith, Train Poetry Journal, June 20, 2022

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

• Facts about Colors, All of These Gentle Things, Willows Wept Review, June 2022

• 4 poems SORTES Magazine, June 2022

• 5 poems, Lover's Eye Press, May 202

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

• First Light, Jerry Jazz Musician, May 2022

• The Pink Cloud, Lunar Debutante, Digit Spaces, AntilangMag, Spring 2022

• Money Tree, Pinhole Poetry, April 2022​ 

• The Body is a Fantastical Story, Steep your Verse, Riddled with Arrows 5th Anniversary Spotlight, March 2022

• Disintegration Loops, Green Age, I Deleted it All, Dream Pop Journal, March 2022

• The Meteorite, The South Shore Review, December 2021

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

 

 

​​​UPCOMING

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• Suite of poems in Intent on Flowering fall anthology via Rose Garden Press, Winter

• Workshop for Downtown East Side Writer's Collective, February 2024

 

CONTESTS/NOMINATIONS

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• 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

• Longlisted for Surrey Muse's 2023 Vera Manuel Award for Poetry

 

JUDGING & EDITORIAL

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• Poetry Judge for Write On! 2023 Contest, Royal City Literary Arts Society

• First Reader for EVENT Magazine

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INTERVIEWS

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• Tiny Spoon, January 2022

• Riddled with Arrows, 5th Anniversary Spotlight, March 2022

• Pinhole Poetry, April 2022

• Train Poetry Journal, July 2022

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ANTHOLOGIZED POETRY

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• 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

 

REVIEWS

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

 

WORKSHOPS

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

 

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

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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

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MEMBERSHIPS

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• Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS)

• League of Canadian Poets-Associate