Awards

Honourable mention, The New Quarterly 2024 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest: "As a Tree (For Emily)" (poetry)

Winner, Eden Mills Writers Festival 2020 "Read at the Fringe" Contest: "Field Notes in a New House" (creative nonfiction)

Winner, Terence L. Bingley 2020 "Song of the Year" Award: "In the Velvet" (single)

Winner, "Fresh Ink" 2019 Word Guild Award: "Companion" (creative nonfiction)

Winner, 2018 Hamilton Short Works "Writing Off the Radar" Prize: "Encore" (poetry)

Honourable Mention, 2016 Hamilton Short Works Prize: "I Heard God in a Moon Shower"


Publications

"White Berries," "Pool Fly" (poetry) Poetry in Place: Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario Bioregion, Guernica Editions, 2025

"As a Tree (For Emily)" (poetry) - The New Quarterly, 2024

"Field Notes in a New House" (creative nonfiction) - Emerge: Chapbook, 2020

"Pool Fly" (poetry) - HA&L Magazine, 2020

"Headstrong" (poetry) -Wildlands Advocate, 2019


Recordings

"The Seeing" Live at Last Supper Books, 2025

Noon Hour Concert performance for the Hamilton Public Library, 2020

This is a Reunion (EP), 2019

"In the Velvet" (Single), 2019

Unearthed (EP), 2016


Interviews

"I Heart Hamilton" 93.3 CFMU - radio interview, 2020

CHCH Music Friday - live television performance and interview, 2019

Marz Garage - video performance and interview, 2019

Christian Courier - written interview, 2021


Initiatives

Shaky Knees Club (co-founder) - Shaky Knees Club is a rotating songwriters collective in Hamilton, Ontario. Since 2023, it has gathered musicians for lyric-focused workshops, performances, panels, and the chance to connect with other artists in the city.

LitLive Readings Series (committee member) - Founded by Hamilton writer Kerry Schooley in 1995, LitLive is a monthly literary reading series featuring a diverse and exciting range of poets, short-story writers, novelists, and nonfiction writers from across Canada.