Bio

My home is Edmonton, AB (amiskwaciwâskahikan), on Treaty 6 territory, where I share physical and emotional space with my spouse, two children, and one belligerently affectionate tuxedo cat named Miss Bennet. 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’m an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets. I was an apprentice in the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Mentorship Program in 2022. Prairie Vixen Press is my self-publishing imprint.

Publications

• “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