books and solo works
Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers (Novel, Stonehouse Publishing, 2019)
The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon: Poems After Remedios Varo (Chapbook, Coven Editions, 2019)
Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen (Leaflet, The Blasted Tree Art Collective & Publishing Co., 2018)
The Night Will be Long But Beautiful: The Life and Death of Jeff Lakes (Chapbook, Loft on Eighth Press, 2016)
This chapbook was also made into an exquisite art book by printmaker Tim van Wijk in 2017, for the Canada Council funded project, Print(ed) Word with Loft 112 and Alberta Printmakers.
Fiction and Poetry
- 2019
Canthius: “Female Spirit of the Night,” “Bloodletting” and “Alice Discovers all the Rabbits are Dead" forthcoming
Door is a jar: "Lullaby for Highway 1" forthcoming
Augur: "Advice from Granny Moon" forthcoming
Train, a poetry journal: "At Sunnyside Station," "harvest" forthcoming
Boned, A Collection of Skeletal Writings: "No one is Coming to Save You," "Black Boots," "Devilled Eggs for Midnight Supper," "Ferta, Unsettled, 1959," "The Skin Between Egg and Shell," "Phossy Jaw," "Autopsy," "A History of Touching" forthcoming
Collective Unrest: "The Familiar," "A Theory of Anatomies," "Rosemary's Lobotomy," "The Mouth of Lynnhaven" forthcoming
Dodging the Rain: "The Birdwatcher," "Porcelain," "Mademoiselle Sagee," "To Mummify a Tongue," "Slaughtering Time," "Rheumatic Pain II," "Premonition," "Wild Cat as Pallbearer" forthcoming
Blindweed: "Incubator," "Layering" forthcoming
Literary Orphans: "Eva and the Planchette" forthcoming
The War Memory Anthology: "Riley Park, 1917," "A Recipe for Strawberry Pudding" forthcoming
- 2018
Untethered 4.2: "Probable Specimens from the Western Canadian Museum of Prairie Murder Weapons" forthcoming
Bad Nudes: "Red Bird in Window" forthcoming
Hamilton Arts and Letters: "Root Rot" forthcoming
Rhythm of the Bones: Dark Marrow: "Another Resurrection" forthcoming
NŌD Magazine: "Soft Tissue, Bone Tissue" forthcoming
Barren Magazine: "The Purported Last Words of Ruth Blay"
Wyrd & Wyse: "Little Sister," "Leaving Bluebeard," "Witch Going to the Sabbath"
The Quilliad 10: "This Little Web, This Little World"
In/Words 18.1: "Her Writhing Fever"
You are Not Your Rape: A Rhythm and Bones Anthology: "This Shining Fever"
Wilde Boy: "Boy: An Erasure of Robert Browning's The Laboratory"
The Anti-Languorous Project, Blog: "Crepuscular Time"
- winner of the October flash contest
Three Drops From a Cauldron: "Bucolic"
Pussy Magic, All Hallow's Eve: "Breakup Spells 1&2," "Moorwitch," "Where Bragg Creek Meets the Elbow River"
Pussy Magic: "Spell to Finish A Masters Thesis," "Protection Spell for Poetry Readings"
The Poetry Society of New York, Spilt Milk: "Initiation"
Talking About Strawberries All of the Time: "Axe Tidings"
The Anti-Languorous Project, Blog: "A Half-Life"
- winner of the September flash contest
Coffin Bell Journal: "Keep Very Still and Quiet,""Couples Counselling for Ghosts,""Ice Fishing in May"
Barren Magazine: "Dead Leaves"
- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
The Ambrosia Literary Review: "Death Cap in November," "Lac La Biche"
Vessel Press: "You Always Want to Leave," "She is a Wanderer and a Spinner"
Post Ghost Press: "Urban Beekeeping"
Rose Quartz Journal: "Phases of Gone" (visual poetry suite)
The Anti-Languorous Project, Blog: "Happy Hour"
- winner of the August flash contest
Awkward Mermaid: "Crossing the Wires," "Being Alive was the Hard Part"
The Anti-Languorous Project:, Antilang 2: "Birdbones," "Mistress"
The Anti-Languorous Project:, Soundbite 1: "Awake in Roscommon"
Half A Grapefruit: "Flickers," "Missing Persons Report," "The Man in the Bowler Hat, by the Pond Out Back"
Cauldron Anthology: "Only Death to Me," "Heavy Breather"
The Occulum: "Room"
The Black Dog Review: "To the Widow Writing to the Inmates at Ponoka," "Crumbs"
Terse Journal: "verum, n."
Revue Post: "with her legs dangling over the edge of the maidenhead bridge"
Plentitude: "Evernia Prunastri"
The /tƐmz/ Review: "Cervinae," "Weeds," "thumb," "the drag of the key in the lock"
- "the drag of the key in the lock" has been nominated for the 2018 Best of the Net Anthology
The Warren Review: “Nuptial Flight”
The Anti-Languorous Project, Antilang 1: “Honey Cookery,” “Spring,” “Hymn”
- "Honey Cookery" has been nominated for the 2018 Best of the Net Anthology
- 2017
Rejected McSweeney’s Lists: "Proposed Articles That Were Promised a Response but Never Even Got a Follow-Up Email"
Human Parts: “Spells to Banish Depression”
Contemporary Verse 2: “Homecoming”
The White Wall Review: “Formicidae,” “Corvus”
- "Corvus" was also selected as part of the 2017 People's Poetry Festival Artist and Poet Pairing (Artist: Sabrina Sachiko)
Untethered 3.2: “Finnabair”
Petal Journal: “Macha,” “Grace O’Malley.”
NŌD Magazine: “Macroglossum,”(21) “Winterbee”(22)
filling station #68: “All the Pretty Bones”(Shortlisted for a 2018 AMPA Showcase Award in Fiction)
- 2016
Existere: “Dear Julia”
Petal Journal: “Tricks,” “The Falling Sickness”
NŌD Magazine 21: “Beta Vulgaris,” “The Conservatory”
- "Beta Vulgaris" was also selected as part of the 2017 People's Poetry Festival Artist and Poet Pairing (Artist: Nicole Love)
Dual Coast Magazine: "Charlotte"
- 2015
The Boiler Review: “Charlotte,” “Cling”
Eleventh Transmission: “Wrists,” “Fibre Glass”
The Murmur House: “Lion”
The Ignatian Literary Magazine: “Poor Sister Nazarene”
(Parenthetical): “Panic”
Untethered 2.1: “Lungs”
s/tick: “Drop,” “Rebecca,” “Dead Birth”
NŌD Magazine 18: “Clatter,” “Vermeer’s Light”
Human Parts: “This Shining Fever”
Qwerty Magazine 34: “Panic”
After the Pause: "Skin Signs, Still the Girl he Married"
Sharkpack Poetry Review: "Sirenomelia"
Clockwise Cat: "Dissolving," "Some of Us"
The Birds We Piled Loosely: "Constant," "Spring," "Mariam"
Fry Your Friends: "Have You Noticed Yet?"
Weekly Poem: "Leaving"
- 2014
NŌD Magazine 17: “Teşekkürler,” “{iii}”
The Snapping Twig: "Skin," "Cresol," "Fifteen"
- 2013
The Gauntlet: "Snapshots of 17"
WAX Poetry and Art Magazine: "Boa Constrictor"(1st Place in Autumn Contest)
Non-Fiction
On Submitting: Article, 2018
Atlas Obscura: Tesco Metro, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2018)
FLURT Magazine: Numerous Articles (additional copies available in print/PDF edition here and here.)
Calgary Prime Times: "The Sickening Sea"
The Gauntlet: "Bullied"
Gender Focus: "10 Unsung, Real Women to Look Up To"
Unbound Magazine: "7 Smutty Stories for the Adult Harry Potter Fan"
My (Small Press) Writing Day: Article, 2018
I have also written for Grip Magazine, Edmonton and Calgary Senior News, and Edmonton Women's Magazine.
As Editor
Contributing Reader and Writer, Awkward Mermaid Lit Mag 2018-Present
Honey Pot Literary Miscellany
NŌD Magazine: Managing Editor 2015-2016
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