Awards & Publications

My work has won a National Magazine Award for fiction, has been selected as "notable" in Best American Essays 2019, and has received awards from several Canadian literary magazines.

I've been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the BC Arts Council, Montana Artists' Refuge, Fishtrap, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

Awards & Recognition

• The Faerie Ring was long-listed in the 2021 Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest
• "Third Shift" was listed as a Notable essay in Best American Essays 2019 and was the winner of Event Magazine's Nonfiction Contest (2018)
• "Asymptote" won the Gold National Magazine Award for Fiction (2010)
• Received Joseph Armand Bombardier SSHRC grant (May 2010)
• Received BC Arts Council Fellowship (Sept 2009)
• Fishtrap Writing Fellow (July 2005)
• Writer-in-residence at Montana Artists Refuge (June 2005)

Publications

• "Third Shift" appears in Event Magazine 46/3 (2018)
• "Loss of Blood" appears in the Machine of Death anthology
• "Significant Other" appears in the Fall 2010 issue of The Vancouver Review
• "Asymptote" appears in Event Magazine 39/2 (2010)
• "Transgressions" appears in the Spring 2007 issue of The First Line
• "The Split Up" appears in the Winter 2006 issue of The First Line