Work

 

SELECTED POETRY

CHAPBOOKS

  • Shine Like a Dime in the Dirt under the Moon, Pinhole Poetry, Spring 2026
  • Intent on Flowering with Katie Jeresky and Penn Kemp via Rose Garden Press, January 2024 order here. Launch hosted by WordsFestival, February 10, 2024 recording here

CONTESTS

  • Winner, 2025 Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize “Made of Holes” & honourable mention “Black Holes” 
  • Winner, RCLAS 2025  Write On! Contest, Poetry, “Gillnet”
  • Third Place Winner, ROOM Magazine 2024 Poetry Contest, The Air Itself Is One Vast Library
  • Winner of the 2024 League of Canadian Poets National Broadsheet Contest, “Transformer Stone”
  • Semi-finalist for Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest, What You Exceed
  • Honourable mention for The New Quarterly‘s 2024 Nick Blatchford Contest
  • Finalist for The Fiddlehead‘s 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest: “The Air Itself Is One Vast Library”
  • Longlisted for Surrey Muse’s 2023 Vera Manuel Award for Poetry: “Skalsh Rock”
  • 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

ANTHOLOGIZED POETRY

  • 2 poems in Fire from the Heart: Winners from the 2025 Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, Three Ocean Press, November 2025
  • “Outpatient”, Pinhole Poetry Volume Three selected, print edition, 2025
  • “Time Out”,  Kinds of Cool: A Collection of Jazz Poetry, Jerry Jazz Musician and Unsolicited Press, January 2025
  • “On the Front Lines at the Court of Death”, Fire from the Heart 2024: Winners of the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, Three Oceans Press, December 2024. Order here
  • 5 poems, emerge 23: The Writer’s Studio Anthology, SFU, October 2023
  • 4 poems, Framework of the Human Body anthology, Bell Press Books, Fall 2022
  • “Uptown Food Court”, A Journey Across New Westminster by Word: A Poetry of Place (Ed. Alan Hill), 2020

REVIEWS/CRITICAL

WORKSHOPS

  • Writing session for Downtown East Side Writer’s Collective, November 2023, February 2024
  • Embracing the Non-Linear: Mapping toward your poem. Nov 12, 2023 

PROJECTS/MEDIA

  • Reading of “Ambient” for The New Quarterly, March 2025
  • Gotta Pop! Podcast: Pet Sounds & Brian Wilson’s Smile, May 2024
  • Jerry Jazz Musician: Sunday Poem: First Light recording, January 29, 2023
  • Eh Poetry podcast, July 23, 2022
  • “Décollage” for Tiny Spoon’s cut/copy/paste issue video presentation, January 2022
  • RCLAS Co-operative Poems: 2022, 2024, 2025
  • RCLAS Co-operative Poem We Came from the Forest, Wordplay at Work, April 2021

INTERVIEWS

SELECTED READINGS

  • SAPP: a poetry zine, Volume 3 launch, September 13, 2025 at Wildfires Bookshop
  • National Poetry Month Poetry + Art Salon, Saturday, April 12, 2025 at Anvil Centre
  • SAPP: a poetry zine, Vol 2. Launch at Wildfires Bookshop, November 16, 2024
  • Reader for RCLAS: In Their Words, August 29, 2024
  • Reader for Dead Poets Reading Series, Massy Arts Gallery, July 14, 2024
  • Poetic Justice feature with Jónína Kirton via RCLAS and The New Westminster Public Library, May 12, 2024
  • Intent on Flowering launch via WordsFestival, February 10, 2024 
  • emerge 23 launch at Vancouver Writer’s Fest, Granville Island, Oct 22, 2023
  • RCLAS Poetic Justice reading with Alan Hill & Aidan Chafe, Oct 15, 2023
  • Crab Creek Review, The Spring Crab, Vol. 2 Launch, October 12, 2023
  • RCLAS Poetry in the Park, Host, July 19 & August 30, 2023
  • Pinhole Poetry Vol. 1 Launch, June 8, 2023
  • Framework of the Human Body anthology Bell Press Books virtual launch, February 11, 2023
  • Strangers on a Train series, Department of English at Langara College, January 31, 2023
  • Feature, RCLAS Poetry in the Park, August 10, 2022
  • Surrey MUSE Virtual Gathering, July 22, 2022
  • SORTES Magazine Reading Series, Issue 10, June 24, 2022
  • RCLAS & Federation of BC Writers Regional Spotlight feature, April 26, 2022
  • Surrey Muse Open Mic Opener February 25, 2022
  • Surrey Muse 10th Anniversary, November 29, 2021

EDUCATION

  • SFU, The Writer’s Studio Creative Writing Certificate
  • Master of Arts: English, Simon Fraser University
  • Bachelor of Arts: English, SFU

MEMBERSHIPS/Board/Editorial

  • League of Canadian Poets – Full Member
  • Scottish Centre for Geopoetics (New Member)
  • Director, Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS)
  • Editorial Director, Sapperton Community Arts Association
  • Member, English Program Advisory Committee, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
  • First Reader for EVENT Magazine