Bonjour, Hi!
I’m a writer and an instructor of literature and creative writing (fiction, screenwriting, and non-fiction) at Langara College in Vancouver, BC on unceded Coast Salish Territories. I moved here from Montréal, got myself an MFA in creative writing at UBC, and remain skeptical of all this rain. Umbrella please!
My novel, After We Drowned, set to be released by Anvil Press this fall (2024), was the third-place finalist in The Master’s Review Novel Excerpt Contest (2022) and also a semi-finalist for Autumn House Press’ Full-Length Fiction Prize, shortlisted for YesYes Books Open Reading Period, and was longlisted for the Disquiet Literary Contest. I’m co-author on The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School (UBC Press/Purich Books, 2023), which received an honourable mention in the BC Lieutenant Governor’s awards for historical writing and was a finalist for a BC/Yukon Book Prize. You can find other work of mine in publications including the Globe and Mail, subTerrain, Room Magazine, and The London Reader, while my short film, Homeland went to film festivals across North America and Europe. Though I’m not normally a poet, I once won the Tethered by Letters Poetry Prize. Currently, I’m working on my next novel with funding for research from the BC Arts Council. My work is represented by Carolyn Forde at the Transatlantic Agency.
BOOKS
After We Drowned - a coming-of-age/environmental cataclysm novel will be published by Anvil Press in Fall 2024.
The Fire Still Burns - Squamish Elder Sam George's memoir of his time at St. Paul's Indian Residential School - is on the BC Bestsellers Top 20 of 2023 List and was a finalist for the BC & Yukon Book Prizes (2024). It is also the recipient of a Lieutenant Governor’s Honourable Mention for Historical Writing (May 2024).
My essay “On Magnolias During End Times” is featured in Chronicling the Days (Guernica Editions), a book of first-person dispatches from the earliest days of the pandemic.
My essay “Death’s Long Embrace” is one of many pieces exploring near-death experiences in Against Death: 30 Essays on Living (Anvil Press, runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Short Story/Anthology Prize, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, and finalist for the Montaigne Medal).
"Taxi", one of my earliest short stories, about a girl born in a Taxi during a blizzard in Montréal, is part of this collection of short works: Writing in the CEGEPs, (Siren Song Press).
In the Media: The Fire Still Burns
SOME ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
NEWS
The Fire Still Burns was a finalist for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and has received an honourable mention in the Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for Historical Writing.
Sam George and I will be at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in August of 2024
February 2024: Thank you BC Arts Council for the 2nd Individual Arts Award for research on my 2nd novel!
My novel, After We Drowned, will be published by Anvil Press in 2024.
My short story “Super Flower Blood Moon” is in Room Magazine’s Fever Dream issue (46.4).
May 2023: An excerpt of After We Drowned is the third-place finalist for the Master’s Review novel excerpt contest.
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