Recognition

RESIDENCIES

Seventh Wave Residency, Spring 2022

SELECTED AWARDS
& COMPETITIONS

E.J Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry | University of Toronto, 2023
Longlisted | The Pear and Other Poems | CBC Poetry Prize, 2022
Honourable Mention | Here, Grass | Arts and Letters Club of Toronto Foundation Poetry Award, 2022
Finalist | End of the World Poem | Far Horizons Award for Poetry, The Malahat Review, 2022
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 Bears | 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, Author and Professor at Victoria College

"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, Winner of the 2023 Trillium for Poetry

"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, Author and Editor of Cultural Weekly

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, author and editor for Brick Books

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, author and winner of the Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry

Shortlisted | Keats-Shelley Young Romantics Prize, The Keat-Shelley Memorial House, 2017
Honourable Mention | Hollins University Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, 2017

AWARD NOMINATIONS