An award-winning writer.
A cliché-busting speaker.
For over 10 years, I've been writing about and through mental illness and neurodivergence. I work with words and line breaks to uncover long-buried truths and redefine what it means to "be well".
(You hear that voice too, right?)
I wrote the found performance text/ mental health memoir/chapbook Head War (Frog Hollow Press, 2021), with words and phrases taken from my mental health records after a 2013 inpatient psychiatric stay.
Head War won the 2021 Oscar Wilde Award for Work Celebrating Non-Conformity at the Island Fringe Festival. It has now been transformed into a short film, to educate and enlighten diverse audiences about the realities of living (and thriving!) with mental illness.
My full-length books are Live Ones (University of Regina Press, 2019; tall-lighthouse uk, 2020), Your Therapist Says It's Magical Thinking (ECW Press, 2023; winner of the 2024 Prince Edward Island Book Award in Poetry and shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award), and The Bright Afters (ECW Press, forthcoming in 2026). My work has appeared in places including Best Canadian Poetry, The Walrus, Canadian Literature, EVENT, Foglifter, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, CV2, Lunch Ticket, and Grain; in 2023, I won Grain's Short Grain Poetry Contest.
I live on Prince Edward Island, Canada, but I speak anywhere with a good internet connection.