Writing

Books:

  1. The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (forthcoming 2024)
  2. Visitation Seeds (2020)
  3. What We See in the Smoke (2019)

Short works:

Short Fiction, Poetry, and Non-Fiction listed in reverse chronological order

2023

  1. “Behold the Dead“ — The Blasted Tree Arts Collective and Publishing Co
  2. “Spectres of Bibliotheca” — The Temz Review issue 22

2022

  1. The Resting Place of Trees — Clarkesworld December 2022
  2. “The World is a Scar That Longs to Bleed: A Review of John Elizabeth Stintzi’s My Volcano” — Filling Station Magazine
  3. “Wild Dream Country” — Cold Signal Magazine issue 1
  4. “Look at the Birds” — Grim and Gilded Issue 8
  5. “The Church of the Hot Pink Jesus” — Wrongdoing Magazine Issue 4
  6. “Something that Bites” — The Sprawl Mag 1.1
  7. “With Empathy and Imagination: of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072‘” — The Ancillary Review of Books
  8. “What?” — This Will Only Take a Minute, an Anthology of Flash Fiction — Guernica Editions
  9. “Longing for What We Never Had: Emily St John Mandel’s “Sea of Tranquility” — The Ancillary Review of Books
  10. “Breath, Sweet Dazzler” — Deathcap Issue 14
  11. “Now and Forever” — Deathcap Issue 14 (Poetry)
  12. “Yes Father, I Shall Become” — Deathcap issue 14
  13. “Wilding City” — Deathcap issue 14
  14. “Underneath” — The Red House: An Anthology of Genre and Speculative poetry Volume 2

2021

  1. “After-Crisis” — The Temz Review issue 17
  2. “Asylum Saint Skies ” — Deathcap Issue 6
  3. “The New Gods of the House” — Abyss and Apex Issue 80

2020

  1. “Hybrids Of Mind And Body: The Forms And Freedoms Of The Cyborg In Posthumanist Science Fiction” (Masters Thesis – Toronto Metropolitan University)
  2. “The City Below Sound” — The Local issue 7
  3. We Have Seen The Future — the Eunoia Review
  4. “We’re Here for the Ride: Toronto’s Last Night at KFB” — the Puritan Town Crier
  5. That Ghostly Voyage Beyond — Cypress Poetry Journal
  6. Distributing Our Horizons: Ken Liu’s Children of the Cloud and the Birth of Digital (Post)Humanity — Strange Horizons
  7. A Bird of Flesh and Futures — Cypress Poetry Journal
  8. Questioning Our Characters: Performative Identity in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape — Empty Mirror
  9. Queering the Cyborg: How The Hybrid Body Can Set us Free — Strange Horizons
  10. Exit West: Freedom in the Digital City in Empty Mirror
  11. Hard-Light Bodies — The Temz Review issue 10
  12. Watchmen: We See What We Want to See — The Nerd Daily
  13. Allen Ginsberg: Howl for the queer and disabled Americans — Empty Mirror
  14. Queer Time Machines: Hauntologies of Literature — Terse Journal

2019

  1. Önder Deligöz: Fiction, Feelings and Freedom for PEN Canada (Interview)
  2. March Break Happenings at the University of Toronto for Intersections (article)
  3. Trick or Treating with Food Allergies for Intersections (article)
  4. Word on the Street! for Intersections (article)
  5. Larissa Lai’s “Rachel” and Cyborg Identity for Augur Magazine (article)
  6. Dear Editor in Half A Grapefruit Magazine (fiction)
  7. Dog Food for Dallas in The UC Review online (poetry)
  8. A Grim House in Heaven in The Trinity Review Volume 131 (poetry)

2018

  1. Cat’s Cradle: The Sin of Scientists and Systems in Terse Journal (Essay)
  2. Closing Time in Terse Journal (fiction)
  3. Tenants in Sweet Tree Review Volume 3.1 (fiction)

2017

  1. The Poor Teaching Practices of Albus Dumbledore for The Spectatorial (Article)
  2. Arrival – A Case of Déjà vu for The Spectatorial (Review)
  3. Lonesome No More for The Spectatorial (Article)
  4. Bowie Fiction for The Spectatorial (Article)
  5. Wrath of Khan Introspective for The Spectatorial (Article)
  6. The Sins of Professor X (Part 1) for The Spectatorial (Article)
  7. The Sins of Professor X (Part 2) for The Spectatorial (Article)
  8. A Dream of a Good Life in Liquid Imagination issue 35 (fiction)
  9. The War with Space in the Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal 2.4 (fiction)
  10. Yum in The UC Review Winter 2017 (fiction)
  11. A Carnival World in South 85 Journal (fiction)
  12. Death Watch in Occulum Journal (fiction)
  13. The End of History in The Goose Volume 6 (fiction)
  14. Rocket Connection in Occulum Journal (fiction)

2016

  1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens—We’re Home for The Spectatorial (Review)
  2. I Aim to Misbehave – The Confusing Gender Politics of Firefly for The Spectatorial (Article)
  3. Daredevil Season 2: Here Comes the Man Without Fear for The Spectatorial (Review)
  4. Not My Superman for The Spectatorial (Article)
  5. Doing What’s Right: A Review of Captain America – Civil War for The Spectatorial (Review)
  6.  4 Heroes. 4 Movies. 4 Mistakes. 4 Puns. for The Spectatorial (Article)
  7. Trying to Be Happy – Exploring the Issue of Humanness in “Swiss Army Man” for The Spectatorial (Review)
  8. Remember To Save What Keeps Us Human: Looking At “Childhood’s End” for The Spectatorial (Review)
  9. The Martian Mustache in The Spectatorial Volume 6 (fiction)
  10. City Souls in Indigo Lit Issue 2 (fiction)

2015

  1. Sandman: Handful of Dust for The Spectatorial (Article)
  2. Almost Human: Synthetic Soul for The Spectatorial (Review)
  3. The Flash Season One: “Run, Barry, Run!” for The Spectatorial (Review)
  4. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country for The Spectatorial (Article)
  5. Jessica Jones: It’s Time to Learn Her Name for The Spectatorial (Article)
  6. Ex_Machina – I am become Death for The Spectatorial (Article)
  7. Jessica Jones: Feminist Noir for The Spectatorial (Review)
  8. Hannibal: What do you see? for The Spectatorial (Review)
  9. God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut for The Spectatorial (Article)
  10. Sandman: Handful of Dust for The Spectatorial (Review)
  11.  Reach for the Stars! Or in Defence of Science Fiction Literature for The Spectatorial (Article)
  12. Imagine Magic! In Defense of Fantasy Literature for The Spectatorial (Article)
  13. No Capes! An Introduction to Comics and Graphic Novels of the Non-Superhero Variety for The Spectatorial (Article)
  14. Without Fear: The Devil in Depression for The Spectatorial (Article)
  15. An Interview with Bruce Meyer in The Strand (interview)
  16. Our Perspective in The Spectatorial Volume 4 (fiction)

2014

  1. I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts… But Flying Saucers Give Me Chills! For The Spectatorial (Article)
  2. A Good Land for Myths for The Spectatorial (Article)
  3. The Stuff What Don’t Get Spoke: Hawkeye and Disability Done Well for The Spectatorial (Review)

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