AWARD NOMINATIONSPushcart Prize | this is a stadium | nominated by Cream City Review, 2021
Best of the Net, How to Nurse a Shark | nominated by Red Queen Magazine, 2016 Best of the Net, Wick | nominated by TRACK//FOUR, 2016 Best New Poets, Palate Cleanser | nominated by Ninth Letter, 2016 big lucks |
RESIDENCIESSeventh Wave Digital Residency, Spring 2022
Her work has also been recognized by literary organizations and institutions like the League of Canadian Poets and Iowa State University, where her poem "I'm Going to Butcher This" was taught in the Women and Gender Studies program. A 2022 Seventh Wave resident, her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net anthologies. Her poems have been selected by Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo for inclusion in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019), by Najma Sharif for Reconstructed Magazine Vol. 2, and by Kazim Ali for New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (Red Hen Press, 2021). |
SELECTED COMPETITIONS
Winner, To Not Write | 1PEN Creative Writing Competition, 2022
Finalist, I'm Going to Butcher This | Sundress Publications Poetry Broadside Contest, 2022
Winner, Self Portrait with Polar Bear | Hart House Literary Contest, Hart House University of Toronto, 2021
Finalist, I'm Going to Butcher This | Sundress Publications Poetry Broadside Contest, 2022
Winner, Self Portrait with Polar Bear | Hart House Literary Contest, Hart House University of Toronto, 2021
"This is an exquisite poem, with a masterful control of language and image, and a lovely sense of form. As a self-portrait it’s both intimate and reaching outward towards larger global challenges. A rich, moving reading experience."
Adam Sol, Judge
"This poem is a wonder of weight and movement. It heaves the tremendous weight of climate collapse into a poem without collapsing the poem."
Sanna Wani, Judge
Adam Sol, Judge
"This poem is a wonder of weight and movement. It heaves the tremendous weight of climate collapse into a poem without collapsing the poem."
Sanna Wani, Judge
Shortlisted, Domestic Animals | Foster Poetry Prize, Contemporary Verse 2, 2021
Shortlisted, The Summer I Return | Thomas Morton Prize, The Puritan, 2020
Finalist, The Goat | Cultural Weekly Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, 2019
"The extraordinary imagery of this poem, its technicolor brutality, spectacle and regret, and its remarkable ending impressed me from the first reading and kept me coming back. I loved its constraint and musicality. Astonishing."
Alexis Rhone Fancher, Judge
Alexis Rhone Fancher, Judge
Silver Key for Poetry | Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Alliance of Young Artists and Writers, 2018
2nd Place, Home, Oven | Columbia College Chicago Young Authors Writing Competition, 2017
2nd Place, How to Look at the Sun | Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize, The League of Canadian Poets, 2017
"The voice in “How to Look at the Sun” moves with confidence and fluidity, sustaining a fine balance between an almost-submerged narrative and images that both mask and convey it... these fresh and surprising phrases have a dream-like potency, rich in emotional reverberations... a kind of North American magic-realism that is brought to life in astonishing detail... a resonant complexity of experience and leaves its remarkable images echoing in the reader's mind."
Sue Chenette & Kevin Spenst, Judges
Sue Chenette & Kevin Spenst, Judges
3rd Place, The Moth | Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize, The League of Canadian Poets, 2017
"As a poem “The Moth” burns bright with visceral similes and metaphors, stunning rhetorical effects and electric language that hums. Confidence in a confluence of ideas and images runs through the poem from start to finish and the lushness of the entire effect draws one back to the poem for multiple readings."
Kevin Spenst, Judge
Kevin Spenst, Judge
Shortlisted | Keats-Shelley Young Romantics Prize, The Keat-Shelley Memorial House, 2017
Honourable Mention | Hollins University Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, 2017
Honourable Mention for Poetry | Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, 2017
Silver Key for Poetry | Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Alliance of Young Artists and Writers, 2016
