Awards

• Recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), January 2025.
• Recipient of National Public Reading funding from the Writers’ Union of Canada, February 2024.
• Recipient of book tour funding from the League of Canadian Poets, December 2023.
• Recipient of a mentorship microgrant from The Writers’ Union of Canada, fall 2023.
• Recipient of a Professional Development grant from the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, spring 2023.
• Recipient of a 2012 Ontario Region Award of Excellence in the category of innovation for the development of SMARTBoard training from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

Education

• MA in English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, 1999
• BA in English, cum laude, Rhetoric Emphasis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, 1995

Publishing Credits

Forthcoming:

Short story: “Old Crow,” Super Canucks: An anthology of small town Canadian superheroes. Eds. Matthew Del Papa and Andy Taylor. Latitude 46 Publishing, March 21, 2026. ISBN: 9781997529057. pp .

• Creative non-fiction: “Blood and Darkness.” Spooky Sudbury: True tales of the eerie and unexplained. Mark Leslie and Jenny Jelen. Hamilton: Dundurn Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4597-1923-1. pp 187-9.
• Poem: “Inherited.” The Atomy. Published on-line July 2013.
• Poem: “North from Thule.” Enhance No. 11, Onimpression Network. Published on-line April 6,  2013.
• Poem: “Not the Mother She Remembers.” Nurture: The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Month Blog 2011.  Published on-line April 13, 2011.
• Poem: “they cannot weather this.”  Climate Changes: The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Month Blog 2010.  Published on-line April 29, 2010.
• Poem: “Fire and Ice.” Fusion. Ekphrastic project between Sudbury Writers’ Guild members and Espanola artists.  Project first displayed July 1, 2009 at Jazz Berries strawberry social at the Espanola Community Center.  Second showing at the Sudbury Theatre Centre Aug 1-30, 2009.

• Poems: “Manitou sky,” and “compensation.” Highgrader Magazine. Volume XV Issue 5 Oct 2008. ISSN 1201-8201.
• Poems: “Sundogs at Nipissing,” and “Astronomy Lesson.” Highgrader Magazine. Volume XV Issue 4 Aug 2008. ISSN 1201-8201.
• Poem: “why sometimes i don’t even bother.” Delicious. Eds. Laurie Smith and Lenore Langs.  Windsor: Cranberry Tree Press, 2007. ISBN 1-894668-29-4.
• Article: “Tlachtga.”  Earthsongs: the international journal of the Society of Celtic Shamans. Samhain 2005.
• Poems: “Five Haiku,” and “A Spirit on the Way.” Open Window IV: an international anthology of poetry. Ed. Richard M. Grove.  Hidden Brook Press, 2005. ISBN 1-894553-64-0.

• Poem: “Relatively Speaking.” Continuum. Eds. Laurie Smith and Lenore Langs.  Windsor: Cranberry Tree Press, 2004. ISBN 1-894668-17-0.
• Reviews: “The Last Light of the Sun,” “The Boy from Earth,” “The Mermaid Secret,” “Pirates of the Montaleo Isles,” “Silence of the Country,” “That Singing You Hear at the Edges,” “Canadian Hauntings,” “Animal Phantoms; Ghost Riders; Horribly Haunted Houses.” Canadian Book Review Annual 2004.
• Article: “The Significance of Organic Imagery in the Song of Solomon.”  Earthsongs: the international journal of the Society of Celtic Shamans.  Beltane 2004.
• Reviews: “The Body of My Garden,” “The Secret Envy of the Unsaved,” “A Geography of Souls,” “Haunted Hallowe’en Stories,” “Family Fictions,” “Break the Silence,” “The Applecross Spell.” Canadian Book Review Annual 2003.
• Poem: “Winter Solstice.”  From the Oak Grove: An Anthology. Ed. Mary-Pat Mann. Sardis: Elder Grove Press, 2003.
• Reviews: “Silk Routes of the Body,” “Kyrie,” “Wild Things Live There,” “Could Love a Man,” “Prime,” “Grace and Poison,” “Poems for a New World.” Canadian Book Review Annual 2002.
• Reviews: “Swimming Among the Ruins,” “Into the Fold,” “Voices from the Lake,” “Sunburst,” “Burning Bush,” “How did you sleep?” “A pair of Scissors,” “A Blue with Blood in it.” Canadian Book Review Annual 2001.
• Reviews: “Beforehand,” “A Woman Alone on the Aticokan Highway,” “The History of the Future,” “Saving Camelot,” “Speaking through Jagged Rock,” “26 Ways out of this World,” “The Dark Side of the Moon,” “Office Politics,” “Persephone’s Sisters: Young Women Write.”  Canadian Book Review Annual 2000.
• Reviews: “Backgroung Music,” “A Slow Dance in the Flames,” “The Sweet Taste of Lightning,” and “Questions About the Stars.” Canadian Book Review Annual 1999.
• Interview: Ageless Wisdom: Stories from Sudbury Seniors.  Sudbury, 1999.
• Interviews: Laurentian University Alumni Magazine. 1999 – 2001.

• Poems: Battle Chant. Sudbury: Battle Chant Ink, 1999. ISBN 0-9686087-0-1.
• Article: “Music for all tastes.” The Sudbury Star. Contributing writer for the Sudbury Arts Council column. October 1999.
• Short Story: “Dead Issue.”  The Sudbury Star. 6 Sept 1999. *Second place in the Sudbury Star Summer Short Story Contest.
• Article: “Food, blues, and cookbooks heat up next Saturday.” The Sudbury Star.  Contributing writer for the Sudbury Arts Council column. June 1999.
• Monthly Editorials: Member of The Sudbury Star reader board.  February – June 1999.
• Article: “Jazz for the winter blues.” The Sudbury Star.  Contributing writerfor the Sudbury Arts Council column. January 1999.
• Short Story: “Fox Fur.” The Northern Life. 25 Nov., 1998 *First place in the Sudbury Writers’ Guild writing contest.
• Poem: “Somnambulance.” The Northern Life.  25 Nov, 1998.*Third place in the Sudbury Writers’ Guild writing contest.
• Article: “Chasing down more than words.” The Sudbury Star. Contributing writer for the Sudbury Arts Council column, October 1998.
• Article: “Plenty happening on the local poetry front.” The Sudbury Star. Contributing writer for the Sudbury Arts Council column, August 1998.

• Poems: Neoverse.  Sudbury: Your Scrivener Press, 1998. ISBN 1-896350-06-2.
• Article:  “Fishing for Winter Fun.” Georgian Bay Today. Winter 1998.
• Short Story: “A Patchwork of Quilts.”  The Sudbury Star.  23 Sept, 1997. *First place in the Sudbury Star Summer Short Story Contest.
• Article: “Camp or Cottage?  A Summer Home by Any Other Name . . .” Georgian Bay Today. Summer 1997. 11.
• Article: “Poets Ready for (W)rites of Spring.”  Georgian Bay Today.  Spring 1997. 9.
• Poem: “Goslings.” Spring-Fever: An Anthology of Poems from the Ontario Division of the League of Canadian Poets (W)rites of Spring 1997.  Ed. Roger Nash. Sudbury: Your Scrivener Press, 1997.  ISBN 1-896350-04-6.

Editing Experience

• … like lemmings … (poetry over the edge). Sudbury: Two Lemmings Publishing, 1998-1999. ISSN 1481-0689.
• Generation ’96. Windsor: University of Windsor Press, 1996.
• The Wandering Pariah. Sudbury: Laurentian University Press, 1994.

Academic Credits/Conferences

• The Academic Conference for Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature (ACCCSAL). Ottawa, May 1996.  Paper: The Works of O. R. Melling.
• Laurentian University English Department Prize for Best Honours Project 1994/95.  Paper: Crossing the Line: The New Fantasy of Canadian Children’s Literature and the Interplay of Fantasy and Reality.
• Colloquium on the Idea of the University.  Laurentian University, March 1995.  Paper: Employing the Mind in a Jobless World.
• Honourable mention in the Laurentian University President’s Award Essay Competition 1995.  Paper: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”: Is there a Canada without Quebec?
• Laurentian University English Department Prize for Best Upper Year Essay 1993/94.  Paper: Appearances are Deceiving:  Irony in Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale.”