PUBLICATIONS
Books
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The World Is Mostly Sky, Turnstone Press, 2020
Poetry
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"Fan Fiction for the Revolution" Room Magazine, Summer 2019
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"A Boat Is Not the Whole World" CV2, Summer 2018
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"Found Offering" Poetry Is Dead, Spring 2018
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"Each September We Went to See the Geese" Prairie Fire, Fall 2017
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"I want to learn all the names of the flowers" Dear Journal, Fall 2017
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"Put your head into your hands and pray to God to save us all" Arc Poetry Magazine, Fall 2016
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"I am remembering the sacredness of sleepovers" SAD Mag, Winter 2015
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"TeenRoadKill" Poetry Is Dead, Spring 2015
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"Head-Smashed-In Provincial Park" Fugue, Spring 2013
Creative Nonfiction
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"Entangled" The New Quarterly, Fall 2019
Book Reviews & Interviews
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"Little Secrets, Whole Stories: A Review of Angeline Schellenberg's Fields of Light and Stone" Heritage Posting, June 2020
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Interview with Laurie D. Graham, The River Volta Review of Books, Spring 2020
Exhibitions & Collaborations
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"These Things That Happen (at Least Light)" poetry, commissioned by FemmeCor, February 2018
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"Sonata for Ocean Organ in C Minor" poetry, commissioned by Earth World Collaborative, February 2018
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"Towards an Aesthetic of Self Discovery via Cats" SAD Mag, ed. M. Jenkins, May 2017
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"All Puffed Up: Expressions in Faced Fears" poetry & photographs, MennoFolk 2017
Stage
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Little Light, Dorothy Somerset Studios, Brave New Play Rites Festival, 2014
AWARDS & HONOURS
Winner, The New Quarterly, Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest 2019
2nd Place, Contemporary Verse 2, 2-Day Poetry Contest, 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
2020
Poetry Workshops, Silverwood Heights School STEAM Week
"Publishing 101 - A How-To Workshop," SaskBooks
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
RESIDENCY
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.