Literary C.V.

Chapbooks

Selected Publications

Selected Readings

  • Messagio Galores
    • performing w/ Quatrio Gualuor (jwcurry & nina jane drystek) as part of e e e at ArrayMusic, Toronto, April 2025
    • performing w/ Quatuor Gualuor (Conyer Clayton, jwcurry, nina jane drystek, & Alastair Larwill), takes XV in Toronto, Windsor & Ottawa, February & April 2018
  • CV2 Issue Launch
    • Birthday Issue launch w/ multiple contributors, virtual, March 2025
    • Fall Issue launch w/ multiple contributors, virtual, October 2022
  • The Anstruther Reader Book Launch
    • w/ Jim Johnstone, Manahil Bandukwala, Mahaila Smith & Margo LaPierre, Ottawa, November 2024
  • CU Poetic Society
    • w/ Ellen Chang-Richardson, Ottawa, October 2024
  • The Factory Reading Series
    • w/ Amanda Earl & Mia Morgan, Ottawa, January 2024
    • w/ Adrienne Gruber & Ben Ladouceur, Ottawa, July 2019
    • w/ Kemeny Babineau & Jason Christie, Ottawa, January 2015
  • Riverbed Reading Series
    • w/ bassam & Martin Gomes, November 2023
  • Plan 99 Reading Series
    • w/ Susan Glickman, Jim Johnstone with Susan Atkinson, Ottawa, October 2023
    • w/ Elizabeth Bachinsky, Ottawa, September 2013
  • Coven Editions Book Launch
    • w/ Ellen Chang-Richardson & Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin, Ottawa, November 2022
  • CU English Lit Society Poetry Reading
    • w/ Cameron Anstee & Manahil Bandukwala, Ottawa, November 2022
  • House Party Poetry Series
    • w/ Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton, Christine McNair, & Pearl Pirie, virtual, June 2020
  • Tree Reading Series
    • w/ Rod Pederson, Sarah Kabamba, and featured reader Cat Kidd, Ottawa, December 2017
  • An “H” of an Evening for bpNichol
    • performance w/ jwcurry, Toronto, October 2017
  • words(on)stages
    • w/ Jacqueline Valencia & David B. Goldstein, Toronto, January 2017
  • The Sawdust Reading Series
    • w/ Marilyn Irwin, Ottawa, December 2016
  • Ottawa Arts Review Issue Launch
    • 9.1. issue launch w/ Liam Burke, Natalie Hanna, Ian Martin, Sarah MacDonell, and Barâa Arar, Ottawa, December 2016
  • blUe mOndays Reading Series
    • w/ Mia Morgan & Natalie Hanna, Ottawa, April 2016
    • Ottawa, October 2015
  • The EW Reading Series
    • w/ Meghan Harrison, Emily Izsak, & Josh Smith, Toronto, April 2016
  • Chrysalis Zine
    • “Distance” issue launch w/ Marilyn Irwin, Ottawa, December 2015

Media

Awards & Grants

  • City of Ottawa, Arts Funding Program, Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists
    • June 2024
    • December 2020
    • June 2017
  • Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants for Writers
    • from Palimpsest Press, February 2024
    • from Coach House Books, February 2023
    • from Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, February 2023
    • from Palimpsest Press, February 2018
  • Ontario Arts Council, Compass project grant
    • May 2016
  • Carleton University, George Johnston Poetry Prize
    • Second Place for “Begin in Water”, April 2014
  • Carleton University, Thomas Hartman Award for Humorous Writing
    • 2012

Juries & Committees

  • ArtsNL (Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council)
    • Sustaining Program for Professional Arts Organizations (SPPAO), March 2020
  • Ottawa Arts Council Arts Awards
    • March 2020
  • Manitoba Arts Council
    • Periodical Publishers Jury, June 2019

Work & Volunteer Experience

  • Nightwood Editions
    • Editorial Assistant, 2024 – Present
  • Carleton University
    • Contract Instructor for ENGL4139A (formerly ENGL4135B), 2023 – Present
  • Arc Poetry Magazine
    • Managing Editor, 2018 – Present
    • Coordinating Editor, 2014 – 2018
  • Ottawa Arts Council
    • Board Member & Awards Committee Chair, 2020 – 2025
  • Bywords.ca
    • Selection Committee, 2021 – 2024
  • Tree Reading Series
    • Tree Seed Workshop Facilitator, 2015 – 2018
  • Canadian Women in the Literary Arts
    • 2014 CWILA Count Volunteer, 2015
  • In/Words Magazine & Press
    • Host, The In/Words Reading Series, 2013 – 2014
    • Co-Editor, 2012 – 2014

Education

  • Carleton University, M.A., English, 2013 – 2014
    • Received Teaching Assistant position, ENGL1000
    • Specialization in contemporary Canadian poetry
  • Carleton University, B.A. Honours, English, 2009 – 2013
    • Deans’ Honour List, 2013
    • Minor in History