bio

I grew up in the Okanagan and have lived on Vancouver Island, in South Korea, and in Australia. I now live back in the valley, where I teach Creative Writing at Okanagan College and raise my three children. My first book of poetry, (kerplnk): a verse novel of development, was published in 2005 with Kalamalka Press. My second book of poetry, Tight Wire, was published in 2016 with Mother Tongue Publishing. Tight Wire was on the ReLit Long Shortlist for 2017. I also published Little Red with Mother Tongue Publishing in 2019. My most recent collection, Lady Bird was published with Exile Editions in 2023.

I won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer 2016/2017. I have also  been shortlisted for the Ralph Gustafson Prize for the Best Poem, for the Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest and for the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry for Best Suite by an Established Writer.