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AWARDS
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Guernica Editions, 2020) won the 2021 Ottawa Book Award for English Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2021 ReLit Award for Poetry
Sprawl | the time it took us to forget (Collusion Books, 2020) was shortlisted for the 2021 bpNichol Chapbook Award.
"I cannot write this softly" published in filling station 73, is a finalist for a 2021 Alberta Magazine Award for Best Essay
What's so blank about it? from long con issue 3 nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize
2 poems, "Press 0 to speak directly to God" and "Stubborn Fucks," short-listed in Freefall Magazine's 2020 Poetry Contest
Winner, along with Bardia Sinaee, of The Capilano Review's 2019 Robin Blaser Poetry Prize
2 poems, "Bumpers" and "Perrenial", long-listed for The New Quarterly's 2019 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest
"Southern Belle" long-listed for Vallum's 2018 Poem of the Year
3rd place in 2017 Prairie Fire Poetry Contest for "What you actually lost"
ARC Magazine's 2017 Diana Brebner Winner for “Seeds”
Winner of Sawdust Reading Series April 2017 Poem-off; chosen by Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke
5th place award in Spring 2017 Causeway Lit contest for “September”
1st place in graduate poetry for the poem “Vegetables” in the 2013 Metroversity Creative Writing Competition
2nd place in graduate poetry for the poem, “Bone-Bed” in the 2012 Metroversity Creative Writing Competition