SELECTED AWARDS ​

&​ COMPETITIONS
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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

​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, Author and Editor of Cultural Weekly

​RESIDENCIES

​Seventh Wave Residency, Spring 2022

AWARD NOMINATIONS

​​Pushcart 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​

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