Hi! I'm a writer living in Vancouver, Canada. I used to mostly write poetry, then I mostly wrote essays. Now, I do both of those things and sometimes write fiction. I am currently working on a novel-shaped project.
I'm the author of four books: two collections of poems, cultural criticism about The Bachelor franchise, and the novel Quality Time. The latter is pretty easy to find in Canada and pretty hard to find anywhere else. If you live outside of Canada and want a copy, feel free to reach out.
You can read my writing in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Buzzfeed Reader, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. I have (occasionally) won and (more often) been on short/long lists for awards from the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, the Toronto Books Awards, the National Magazine Awards, and elsewhere.
I'm a Faculty Mentor in the MFA in Fiction at the University of King’s College. In 2026-27, I'll teach creative nonfiction in the University of British Columbia's MFA. I'm the poetry editor for Maisonneuve.
I live on the unceded land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations with my partner, who is a public librarian, and our young child, who is a generalist.
[recent & selected work]
“Dark skies allow us to see what our ancestors saw when they turned to the heavens, but they may also offer an apocalyptic preview of what the world will look like after we are gone.”
“At some point, you get big enough that you stop believing the world is your cum rag and begin to just feel exposed.”
“What if something is both a guiding light and a hard wind; a true north calling the wayward compass into line and also the entropic force that blows everything apart, sending particles fleeing from security or pattern or sense?”
“Celebrity can be blinding—sometimes the best way to see it is to turn away from the bright centre of the many-sequinned spectacle, to reconstruct the disco ball by looking at the carousel of lights spinning in its orbit”
“Just as the fetish for wellness swallows and camouflages the desire to be thin, maybe getting in touch with your most authentic creative self is at some base level still about increasing productivity and status.”
“When I listen to a podcast, I think some part of me believes I’m only hearing myself think.”
“In its ideal form, biting your nails happens in a state of balance: between knowledge and intuition, human and animal, life and death.”
“We are all in this together, taking our loneliness and reimagining it as a duty.”