PUBLICATIONS

AWARDS & HONOURS

Winner, Word Guild Award, General Market Non-Fiction, Specialty Book, 2021

Shortlisted, Word Guild Award, Best Book Cover, 2021

Recipient of a Graduate Thesis Award in the Fine Arts & Humanities, University of Saskatchewan, 2021 

Shortlisted, Manitoba Book Awards, McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, 2021

Winner, The New Quarterly, Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, 2019

2nd Place, Contemporary Verse 2, 2-Day Poetry Contest, 2019

Recipient of the Dean's Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan, 2019

1st Place, Room Magazine, Short Forms Contest, 2018

Longlisted, Room Magazine, Poetry Contest, 2018

Recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant, 2018

Honourable Mention, Contemporary Verse 2, Young Buck Poetry Prize, 2017

Recipient of the Premier Undergraduate CK Choi Scholarship, University of British Columbia, 2014

Recipient of the George McWhirter Prize in Poetry, University of British Columbia, 2013

PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, & TEACHING POSITIONS

2021

• Read the North Panel, Writing North 11: Sheltering in Place, Dwelling in Words

• Tuning into the Poem: An Editing Webinar with Sarah Ens

• Instructor, Saskatoon Teen Writing Program, Sage Hill Writing

2020

• Poetry Workshops, Silverwood Heights School STEAM Week

• Publishing 101 - A How-To Workshop, SaskBooks

• Flyway: Tracking Ideas of Home, Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) 2020 Conference, Watershed, lit., fig.

• Guest Author, Regina Teen Writing Workshop, Sage Hill Writing

• Guest Author, English 220, University of Saskatchewan

2018

• From Pitch to Press: Editors & Publishers Share Tips, The Profession of Writing Colloquium, University of Saskatchewan

• Getting Published: Do's, Don'ts, and Expectations, The Profession of Writing Colloquium, University of Saskatchewan

2017

• Careers for Editors, Manitoba Editors Association Networking Event

2016

• Storytelling Workshop, Bethel Mennonite Church

2015

• Poetry Workshop, Steinbach Regional Secondary School Innovation Week

RESIDENCIES

Writing North 2021: Sheltering in Place, Dwelling in Words

Virtual Writer-in-Residence

• As the prose VWIR for the 2021 Writing North Festival, I prepared and submitted written feedback on stories and essays and met with each participating writer for 30-minute Zoom calls. 

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Bethel Mennonite Church

2016/17 Artist-in-Residence

• In my position as Artist-in-Residence at Bethel Mennonite Church I initiated, along with co-artist Amelia Warkentin, a storytelling project that combined writing, editing, and performing to encourage and develop a culture of shared perspectives within the Mennonite faith through metaphor and narrative. Our residency concluded with the creation of an anthology entitled Journeying with God: A Bethel Book of Stories.