Bio
My home is Edmonton, AB (amiskwaciwâskahikan), on Treaty 6 territory, where I share physical and emotional space with my spouse, two children, one belligerently affectionate tuxedo cat named Miss Bennet, and a sweet-tempered artistic greenbottle blue tarantula named Miss Dashwood. I have a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and I was an editor at an engineering firm for 15 years, focusing on engineering reports, business proposals, marketing material, and conference/journal papers. I get immense satisfaction out of clarifying other people’s writing, always trying to find the balance between the author’s message and the reader’s experience.
I’m a life-long writer. Since my brain loves digging into strange and esoteric facets of living in this particular cosmos, my writing tends to surrealist poetry, though I’ve been known to dabble in strange little stories too. I appear to be writing an incredibly silly speculative fiction novel at the moment. I’m an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and an active member of the Edmonton Stroll of Poets. I was an apprentice in the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Mentorship Program in 2022. Prairie Vixen Press is my self-publishing imprint.
Publications
Chapbooks
- unless you’re willing to evaporate (Prairie Vixen Press, December 2019)
- The Lyrics Prompt Poems: Ultimate Collector’s Edition (Prairie Vixen Press, March 2024)
Literary Magazines
- “To be told at garish sunset, unapologetically” – Prairie Fire Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 1: Everyday Love, Spring 2018
- “In the cathedral of bare branches” – Moist Poetry Journal, August 2021
- “Bring me a flower with no name” – Crow Name, Issue 3
- “an introduction to motherhood” – you are a flower growing off the side of a cliff, League of Canadian Poets Chapbook, Volume 1
- “What happens after the snow melts”, “Signs”, “Vernal invocation”, “a fragile okay” – Capsule Stories, Spring 2022
- “A Real* Conversation between Imaginary** Friends” – Full Mood Magazine, Mood #1: Modern Epistolary
- “Do Metamorphic Amphibians Know How to Flirt?” – Full Mood Magazine, Mood #4: Mythos
- “Roadside Stop” – Stroll of Poets Anthology 2023
- “YouTube tutorials for nictitating membranes that SMOULDER” – Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 45, Issue 4: The Animal Issue, April 2023
- “Preservation” – EcoTheo Review, Spring 2023
- “Least Resistance” – Stone Circle Review, June 6, 2023
- “Ritual for feeling loved” – Fresh Voices 29, June 2023
- Three poems – Atmospheric Quarterly, Issue 1.1, March 2024
- “The way the rain water pooled on these petals made me think of you” – Moist Poetry Journal, April 2024
- “Look back, look up” – Stroll of Poets Anthology 2024
- “I should not develop feelings for dead men old enough to be my grandfather” – Avalanches in Poetry III: Poetry, Writings & Art Inspired by Leonard Cohen, Fevers of the Mind Press, April 2024
- “When they miss the West Coast”, “Diagnosis” – The Fiddlehead, No. 299, Spring 2024
- “Mothers Lost and Found” – Capital City Press Anthology, Volume 4
- “After School” – Ghost City Review (October 2024)
- “But We Did Read the Darkness” – Stone Circle Review, January 26, 2025