Awards

But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (A Feed Dog Book by Anvil Press, 2022):

We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Guernica Editions, 2020):

Sprawl | the time it took us to forget (Collusion Books, 2020) :

Other Awards and Residencies

  • 2025 Summer MacDowell Fellow
  • 2025 McCormack Writing Centre (formerly Tin House) Summer Novel Scholar
  • Finalist for a 2021 Alberta Magazine Award for Best Essay: "I cannot write this softly" published in filling station 73‍
  • Shortlisted in Freefall Magazine's 2020 Poetry Contest: "Press 0 to speak directly to God" and "Stubborn Fucks"
  • Co-Winner with Bardia Sinaee of The Capilano Review's 2019 Robin Blaser Poetry Prize
  • Longlisted for The New Quarterly's 2019 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest: "Bumpers" and "Perrenial"
  • Longlisted for Vallum's 2018 Poem of the Year: "Southern Belle"
  • Honourable mention in The Fiddlehead's 2018 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem: "Recurrent"
  • 3rd place in 2017 Prairie Fire Poetry Contest: "What you actually lost"‍
  • Winner of Arc Poetry Magazine's 2017 Diana Brebner Prize: “Seeds”
  • Winner, 1st place for Graduate Poetry 2013 Metroversity Creative Writing Competition
  • 2nd place in Graduate Poetry, 2012 Metroversity Creative Writing Competition

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