Some selected gigs and publications: work published in print and online.
2010-2024 Writing about bookish life in Canada, CanLit, and being BuriedInPrint: a collection of 2,300 articles, essays and reviews, including discussion of more than 1,150 works by Canadian writers
2024 Resident Reviewer at The /tƐmz/ Review: writing about long- and short-form fiction published by independent presses, including Issue 28 “On Elaine McCluskey’s The Gift Child” and “On Brandon Reid’s Beautiful Beautiful“
2024 Regular Contributor to The Chicago Review of Books, including “Taking the Long Way Home: Dinaw Mengestu’s Someone Like Us” (R) and “Seeing Ourselves: On Chigozie Obioma’s The Road to the Country” (R)
2024 Regular Contributor to World Literature Today, including Nov/Dec 2024 98.6 “On Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s the old moon in her arms”
2024 The Hamilton Review of Books 9 “Climbing into Different Ways of Being: On Farzana Doctor’s The Beauty of Us”(R)
2024 PRISM international “Navigating Turbulent Times, Alone and Together: The Future by Catherine Leroux” (R)
2024 Regular Contributor to Literary Ladies: Biographies, including Lois Duncan and Margaret Landon; Essays, including “From the Heavens to the Archives: Rachel Field and Anatole Litvak on All This, and Heaven Too“ and “Marching with the Children: ‘The King and I’ Revisited”
2023 EVENT Poetry and Prose 52.2: Featured Fiction Review (R 104-107)
2022 Herizons 36.4 (Fall 2022) “On Larissa Lai’s The Lost Century” (R 33-4) and 36.3 (Summer 2022) “On Stephanie Clérmont’s The Music Game” (R 31)
2022 Carousel “A Search for Another Ending: On Victoria Hetherington’s Autonomy“ (R)
2022 Literary—Many Gendered—Mothers “On Dale Spender” (E)
2022 Australian Women Writers: The Early Years “On Katharine Susannah Prichard’s Goldfields Trilogy” (R)
2021 “Rewriting the Climate Apocalypse” Herizons 35.3 (Fall 2021): 14-19 (Cover Feature)
2020 Vol1Brooklyn “Playing Checkers in Brooklyn: Hope and Resilience in Betty Smith’s Wartime Fiction” (E)
2020 The Los Angeles Review of Books, including Piecework and Assembly: On Judith Teitelman’s “Guesthouse for Ganesha” (R) and “On Ponies, Players, and Improbability: On Shannon Pufahl’s “On Swift Horses” (R)
2020 Ars Mεdica 15.1 (Winter 2020): “Syllabus” 43-48 (SS)
E=Essay / R=Review / SS=Short Story
In addition to the selection of publications above, other work has been published in North America and Europe, in print and online (e.g. The Rusty Toque, Room, Other Voices, Mslexia, Wandering Dog, QWF, Orbis, Tears in the Fence, Pagitica, Front and Centre, and Danforth Review).
Short fiction anthologized by City Works Press (US) and the milieu press (Canada).
And other recognition?
Five Fingers Review’s Annual Fiction Contest (Winner),
NOW’s Annual Feminist Fiction Writers’ Award (Winner),
So to Speak’s Annual Short Fiction Contest (Finalist),
Other Voices’ Annual Fiction Contest (Shortlist),
Phillip Good Competition (Shortlist),
THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt (Shortlist),
Short Fiction submitted by ars medica for consideration for the Journey Prize.
Professional Memberships
National Book Critics Circle (Voting member)