RECENT AWARDS

Winner

• Awarded the Sator New Works Award from Two Dollar Radio (for My Volcano).

• Winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from The Writers’ Trust of Canada for "Selections from Junebat." May 2019.

• Winner of The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize for "Cold Dying Black Wet Cold Early Thing." April 2019. Read an interview about the winning poem here.

Finalist

• “Foundations,” shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2024 Novella Prize. Read Foundations in Bad Houses.

• My Volcano, longlisted for Brooklyn Public Library’s 2022 Book Prize for Fiction.

• Vanishing Monuments, shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. May 2021.

• Junebat, shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Prize from the League of Canadian Poets. April 2021.

• “All Hearts Feed Horses,” & “Gender, OK” shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year contest, 2021.

• “Coven Covets Boy,” longlisted for the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. August 2020.

• Finalist for the National Magazine Awards (Canada) prize for Poetry for "Cold Dying Black Wet Cold Early Thing." May 2020.

• “The Sea That Has Become Known,” shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2020 Novella Prize.

Recent Grants and Residencies

• Awarded a residency at the Queens University Biological Station (QUBS), July 2022.

• Awarded a two-year Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. September 2020.

• Awarded a position as an Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center, November-December 2018.

• Awarded a Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. 2017.