Prizes Judged

1. The Hart House Literary Prize 2022 – Prose Judge
2. The Hart House Literary Prize 2021 – Prose Judge

Education:

• Ph.D., English Literature, The University of Calgary, 2022-In Progress
• Masters of Arts: Literatures of Modernity from Toronto Metropolitan University (2019-2020)
• Honours Bachelor of Arts (Major in English, Minors in Philosophy & Writing and Rhetoric): The University of Toronto (2014-2019). Graduated with Distinction

Scholarships, Grants, Awards:

1. Charles R. Steele Memorial Scholarship (2023)
2. Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship AGES – Doctoral Research Award (2023)
3. MacKenzie-Hicks Graduate Scholarship (2022/2023)
4. Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship AGES (2022)
5. Ontario Arts Council writers Grant (2022)
6. Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant (2021)
7. MA Award for Best Creative Essay from Toronto Metropolitan University (2020)
8. Toronto Arts Council Individual Writers Grant (2020)
9. Ryerson Graduate Fellowship (2019/2020)
10. The Samuel James Stubbs Fellowship (2019)
11. The Special Woodhouse Prize for English (2019)

Speaking Engagements:

Presenter: 2023 Conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) “Strange Birds, Bears, and Beasts under the Law: Mutations in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne” (May 2023)

Co-Presenter with Ryanne Kap: 2023 Conference of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) “The Imaginary Left of the MCU: How Film Mutates Progressivism to Conservatism in Superhero Narratives.” (May 2023)

Panelist: Utopian Visions for the Future for the Conference of Canadian futurism at University of Huelva (May 2023)

Reader: The Flywheel Reading Series (February 2023)

Reader: The Sprawl Mag 1.1 virtual launch (October 2022)

Moderator: Earth Undone panel at Word on the Street Toronto: Across the Universe Stage (June 2022)

Panelist: Human Futurism panel at Word on the Street Toronto: Across the Universe stage (June 2022)

Guest Speaker in WRR311Y1: Creative Writing Workshop. Innis College, The University of Toronto (February 2022)

Presenter: The Kurt Vonnegut Society at American Literature Association 32nd Annual Conference: “Cat’s Cradle: The Sin of Science and Systems” (July 2021)

Guest Speaker in INI305Y1: Creative Writing Workshop. Innis College, The University of Toronto (February 2021)

Reader: The Baseline Press, 845 Press & Rose Garden Press 2020 Chapbook Launch (November 2020)

Presenter: Designing the Self conference: Human Expansions: The Literary Worlds of Distributed Cognition with the Humanities Graduate Student Association at York University (July 2020)

Presenter: RCYP Snapshots 2020/Children’s Texts and Material Cultures: A Research Snapshot Symposium at Toronto Metropolitan University: Grief and Loss across the Spider-Verse: Death in Comics (March 2020)

Presenter: Excavations 26th Annual McGill English Graduate Conference: “Queering the Cyborg, How Hybrid Bodies Can Set Us Free” (February 2020)

Special Presentation: The 2019 Nerdtacular: The Literary Cyborg, with Nerd Nite Toronto (November 2019)

Guest Reader: The Bi Arts Festival Author Showcase (September 2019)

Panelist: Toronto as a Science Fiction and Fantasy Setting, with Bakka Phoenix Books and the Merril SF Collection (September 2019)

Howl with Valentino Assenza at CIUT 89.5 FM (August 2019)