Bio

I  am grateful to live and work on the unceded Coast Salish Territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ nations, and to share in this land's cultural and geographic diversity.  While poetry and community organising are my passions, the natural world is my creed.

The Divining Pool, my debut poetry collection, was nominated for the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial award. More recently I was selected for the 2020 CBC and Pacific Spirit Poetry Prizes. I was honoured to be among Aesthetica’s 2021 and 2017 annual creative writing finalists, and to have won the 2015 Anstruther Poetry Award. In 2014 I was also short-listed for the Malahat Review’s Open Season award. My poetry has been published in American, UK, and Canadian journals such as Grain, Prairie Fire, Hart House Review, and Strand. In another life I was the founding editor of The Scores.

I would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts in the development of my second poetry collection.