EDUCATION

• University of Calgary — PhD in English Literature and creative writing under the supervision of Dr. Suzette Mayr (started in September 2021, anticipated defense in 2025) 
  • English Department Graduate Association Director, beginning term in July 2022
  • Graduate Assistant Teaching (2020-present) 
  • Research Assistant (2021-present)
  • Anti-Racism and Decolonization Community Collective Member (2021-present) 
  • Peer Mentor (2020-present)
• University of Calgary — M.A. in English Literature and creative writing under the supervision of Dr. Larissa Lai (defended in May 2021)
  • Departmental Master’s Representative (2020-2021)
  • UPC Graduate Representative (2019-2021) 
  • Social Committee Member (2019-2020)
  • Free-Exchange Committee Member (2020) 
• University of Calgary — Bachelor of Education with a specialization in secondary English education, graduated June 2019
• University of Calgary — B.A. English (Hons) Creative Writing Concentration, graduated June 2017

NOTABLE SCHOLARSHIPS & ACADEMIC AWARDS

• SSHRC CGS-D Award, 2021 ($105,000)
• Eyes High Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, 2021 ($26,000)
• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, 2020 ($10,000)
• Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship-Masters, 2020 ($17,500)
• Kathleen and Russel Lane Creative Writing Scholarship, 2020 ($1,400)
• Faculty of Graduate Studies Master’s Research Scholarship, 2020 ($500)
• Jillian Allan Master’s Entrance Scholarship, 2019 ($7,5000)
• Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship- Master’s, 2019 ($11,000)

CONFERENCES

• ALECC 2022 (future co-presenter with Leah Van Dyk) “Following the Terns: Ecohorror and Grief in Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations,” June 2022. 
• CGC Graduate Student Caucus (Super)Natural (future presenter). “The persons that come again: Capital, Imagination, and Vampires in the Eighteenth-Century,” Carleton University. March 2022.
• 20/21 Vision: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada (presenter). “I Don’t Feel Well: illness, pandemics, and feminisms in fiction,” University of Saskatchewan. August 2021.
• 50 Shades of Gothic (presenter). “The Living Dead: Haunting Incarceration and Zombified Slavery in Sing, Unburied, Sing,” PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies. May 2021. 
• Free Exchange Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (presenter). “Something Blue,” University of Calgary. February 2021. 
• Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture (presenter). “Disability in the Dystopia: Autoimmunity, Horror, and Canadian Pandemic Fiction,” Cappadocia University. January 2021.
• Free Exchange Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (presenter). “Feeling Space and Place: The Story of a Modern Woman in London,” University of Calgary. March 2020.

LITERARY VOLUNTEER WORK & EMPLOYMENT

• Member-at-Large, ALECC (Association for Literatures, Environment, and Community in Canada), Dec 2021-present 
• Managing Editor at filling Station Magazine, July 2020-present 
• Assistant Editor at filling Station Magazine, Oct 2019-July 2020 
• Non-fiction editor at filling Station Magazine, June 2018-Oct 2019
• Calgary-based reviewer for Hamilton Arts & Letters: The Cross Canada Review Project, 2020
• Woolf’s Voices collective member, Sept 2019-June 2021
• Member of the Writers Guild of Alberta Youth Committee, 2018-2020 
• Social Media Manager at Loft 112, May 2017-September 2019
• Social Media Assistant at Persephone’s Daughters, July 2018-September 2020
• Editor-in-Chief of NōD Magazine, April 2016-April 2018
• Member of filling Station Magazine’s Poetry Collective, Jan 2017-May 2018      

PUBLICATIONS AND WRITING AWARDS

Books/Chapbooks: 

• Unlocking, (book) debut novella with the University of Calgary Press, June 2021 
• Undead Juliet at the Museum (chapbook), ZED Press, August 2021
• I know something you don’t know, (book) debut full-length poetry collection with Gordon Hill Press, March 2020
  • Finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 
  • Shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award
• Two Hauntings (chapbook) Trouble Among the Stars Press, forthcoming 2021 
• Ladybird, Ladybird (chapbook) Anstruther Press, fall 2018
• Collective Nouns for Birds, (chapbook) LoftonEighth Press, December 2017
• “Occult” and “Luster” The Blasted Tree, (leaflet) limited printing of 50 copies, October 2017

Poetry:

• “Whale Songs” Arc Poetry Magazine, forthcoming 2022
• “March” and “Come closer and see” Funicular, forthcoming 2022
• “Fulmination” Canadian Literature, forthcoming 2022
• “A message for one hundred and sixty rooms” Cypress Press: The Red House Anthology Volume 2, Dec 2021
• “Spatial Awareness” The Maynard, Oct 2021
  • Honorable mention in Arc Poetry’s April Award of Awesomeness (2021). 
  • Selected for the League of Canadian Poets’ Poem in your Pocket Day (2022). 
• “Sympathetic Biology” The way out is the way in: an anthology of disabled poets (edited by Stuart Ian McKay, League of Canadian Poets), Oct 2021 
• “Branches in the shape of an open hand” LongCon, Oct 2021
• “Fish” Poetry Pause from the League of Canadian Poets, June 2021 
  • Honourable mention in the 2021 LCP Broadsheet Contest
• “Brine” “Hecate’s Daughter” “older sister younger sister” Deathcap, 2021 
• “Lizzie Borden Takes an Axiom” and “Daedalus” One Button Anthology, forthcoming 2021 
• “I know something you don’t know” Alberta Views, March 2021 
• “Something in the Water” and “Begrime” Lida Literary, 2020. 
• “Cedar” Blindman Brewing Session Stories, 2021
• “The Falls” Pulp Literature, 2020 
• “Immune System Malfunction” “A small painting of a single eye” “A ghost in a field where no one goes” and “Undead Juliet at the Museum” TEMZ Review, 2020
• “Yersinia Pestis in Alberta” Watch Your Head, 2020
• “Well Women” Freefall, 2020
  • Finalist for an Alberta Magazine Publishers’ Association Showcase Award in Poetry (2021). 
• “Musca” Acta Victoriana, 2020
• “In rutting season” Minola Review, 2020
•  “Patchwork” Grain, 2019
• “The girl who turns to bone” The Literary Review of Canada, 2019
• “I know something you don’t know” PRISM International issue 57.4
• “Village” and “River” appeared on Village Brewery’s summer sampler packaging
• “Specimens found in a homemade biorepository near nose hill” Chaudiere Books, 2019.
• “Recipes in a dead language” and “Flannery” Contemporary Verse 2, vol. 41 no. 3. 
  • “Recipes in a dead language” was selected by CV2 for The League of Canadian Poets ‘Poetry Pause’ newsletter. 
• “Venter” Half a Grapefruit Magazine, 2019
• “Tesserae” Geez Magazines issue 50
• “Fragments” Cauldron Anthology, 2019
• “Hair: An Elegy” Boned: A Collection of Skeletal Writings, 2020
•  “Animal Mesmerism” and “Conduits” Train: a poetry journal, prose poems issue. 
• “The Fox Changes His Fur” Paperplates, 2019 
• “Rosa Alchymist” Literary Orphans, 2019
• “We don’t know what happened to the hikers” Door Is A Jar, 2019
• “The Brief Reincarnation of Mary Webster on the Amtrak from Boston to New York” Big Smoke, issue 9
• “Good Mothers” and “The Wasting Sickness” Talking about strawberries all of the time, October 2018
•  “Swell” 1^st place, Brainstorm Poetry Contest 2018
• “Clove” runner up, Brainstorm Poetry Contest 2018 
• “Girls reading in red coats” Flypaper Magazine, fall 2018
• “Tarantella” “In the Wych Elm” “Mary Mary” Vessel Press, fall 2018 (defunct)
• “Insomuch” EVENT, fall 2018
• “Night Apparition” and “Fragments” Awkward Mermaid, fall 2018 
•  “Kites” Filling Station, summer 2018
• “Wintering” Frontier, July 2018
• “Sickle” and “For Agnes” Black Dog Review, July 2018
• “Waxwings” Room Magazine 41.1, June 2018 
• “Unfolding” and “Briar” The Warren, May 2018
•  “Gwen Stacy” Augur Magazine, March 2018
•  “Are you paying attention?” The Antigonish Review, winter 2018
• “Letter Enclosed” Blanket Sea, February 2018
• “Intrude,” and “Luna” Antilang, winter 2018
•  “Vegetate” Clockwise Cat, winter 2018  
•  “Witching” and “Alfred’s Body” Rejected McSweeney’s, January 2018
•  “Anchor in the Garden” Pøst Revue, November 2017
• “Seams” Three Elements Review, October 2017
• “Hereafter” Eleventh Transmission, 45 poems project, October 2017
• “Bugs in Jars” Ascent Aspirations, September 2017
• “This is about someone else” Plenitude Magazine, September 2017
• “Bramble” “Sanguinaria” and “Salt” Open Minds Quarterly, fall 2017
• “Charlotte” Prairie Fire the “Next Wave” Writers 30 and Under, October 2017
•  “Hereafter” The Puritan, Issue 38, August 2017 
• “Anchor” Canthius, July 2017
•  “Moths” “Wafer” and “Frisson” White Wall Review, summer 2017 
•  “Three Summers” Untethered, May 2017
• “Moment(oh)” (Parenthetical), Issue 12, March 2016
• “Tremor” Petal Journal, November 2016 

Fiction:

• “Twisted” The Minola Review (finalist for the Minola Review Inaugural Fiction contest judged by Heather O’Neill), 2020
• “Sirens” Blank Spaces, 2020
• “Redress” Long-listed for Room Magazine’s Short Forms contest, January 2019
• “Taxidermy for Dummies” The Feathertale Review, winter 2018
• “Nectar and Nickel” In/Words 18.1, September 2018
• “Wisteria” Persephone’s Daughters, September 2018 
• “Home Burial” Release Any Words Stuck Inside of You, an Untethered Collection of Shorts, June 2018
•  “Housekeeping” Antilang Issue 1, winter 2018 (nominated for Sundress Publications Best of the Net Anthology) 
• “Bruised Plums” The Town Crier, October 2017
• “what we lost in the fire” 2016 Blodwyn Memorial Prize, fiction category, 2^nd place, June 2016 and (Parenthetical) Issue 15, September 2016 
• “Girls Eat Bugs” NōD Magazine Issue 19, April 2016

Refereed Publications: 

• “(Me=Aquarius=very unpredictable) Ghostliness and Temporality in Tamaki and Tamaki’s Skim” Gnosis Graduate Journal of Philosophy, 2020. 

Non-Fiction:

• ““Words have no place in a cage” a review of Jillian Christmas’ The Gospel of Breaking” Plenitude Magazine, 2021.
• “New ways to leave the body: a review of Tess Liem’s Obits” Plenitude Magazine, 2020
• Of Werewolves and Men: on lycanthropy and the #MeToo Movement, Honey and Lime, winter 2018
• “#MeToo: Take Back the Net” Shameless Magazine, May 2018
• This Will Be Good, Mallory Tater (review) Shameless Magazine, winter 2018
• Profile: Rebecca Thomas, Shameless Magazine

Residencies: 

• Attended the Emerging Writers Intensive (poetry) at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, October 2018.

*Updated February 2022*