Publications
Poetry
Human Story will not Consume the Cosmos (forthcoming 2025) Gaspereau Press
2025 Best Canadian Poetry 2025
“origin story, with crow”
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2024 Arc Poetry (Issue 103)
“On Reading Ducks”
2024 The Dalhousie Review (forthcoming)
“Sestina for the Modernists”
2023 Contemporary Verse 2 (Vol. 46.2)
“origin story, with crow”
2023 The New Quarterly (Issue 168)
“pastoral, Dundas”
“Surgeon’s knot”
“elegy for a groundhog”
2023 Prairie Fire (Vol. 44.3)
“land line”
“hashbrowns”
2023 Grain (Issue 50.2)
“once upon a time in Winnipeg”
2022 Untethered Magazine (Issue 13)
“no room for exiles”
2022 Riddle Fence (Issue 45)
“children of Atlantis”
“brush”
“cowpokes near Spillars Cove”
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2022 Poetica Magazine
“On Moonmilk (Korolowka 1943-2022)”
Selected Essays and Reviews
"Finding the Form", The New Quarterly online (January 2024)
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What it Means to Write, Adrian McKerracher
University of Toronto Quarterly (fall 2021)
“Bringing the War Home,” a review of Michael Winter’s, Minister Without Portfolio
The Literary Review of Canada
“Endearing Assassins,” a review of Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers
The Literary Review of Canada
Poetry Awards and Accolades
2023 Contemporary Verse 2
2-Day Poem Contest, First-Place
“origin story, with crow”
2023 The New Quarterly
Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Award, Honourable Mention
“elegy for a groundhog”
2022 Pushcart Prize Nominee
“On Moonmilk (Korolowka 1943-2022)”
Poetica Magazine
2022 Arc Award of Awesomeness (April),
Honourable Mention
“Three Cheers for the New Robot Umpires!”
2022 Arc Award of Awesomeness (March),
Honourable Mention
“False Spring”
2021 The Fiddlehead
Ralph Gustafson Prize, Shortlist
“The Spruce Crow Remembers”
“Origin Story, with Blueberry”
2021 CBC Poetry Prize, Longlist
Cod Jigging Near Twillingate (three poems)
2021 Hamilton Arts & Letters Short Works Prize, Honourable Mention
“Orchids on March 1, 2021”
2004 Joseph Howe Poetry Prize (Dalhousie),
First Place
“Library of Trees”
2004 Clare Murray Fooshee Prize (Dalhousie),
Second Place
“Library of Trees”
Selected Academic Publications
“Remaking Critical Theory: A Creative Humanities Process and Intervention.” Co-Authored with Brandon McFarlane. University of Toronto Quarterly. 92.2 (2023): 147-81.
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“Sacred Healings through Telling Story: Lessons from the Sacred Grounds.” Co-Authored with Jessica Pulis and Brianna Wodabek. Journal of Applied Social Science. (2021): 1-19.
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“Indigenous Storytelling: Ethics and Resistance.” Rethinking Who We Are: Critical Reflections of Human Diversity in Canada. Fernwood Publishing, 2019.
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“Challenging Creativity: A Critical Pedagogy of Narrative Interpretation.” English Studies in Canada 43.1 (2017): 45-66.
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“But People are Strangers: Lyric Narratives and Ethics on Paul Simon’s Roads.” Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and Popular Culture of the American Road. Bloomsbury, 2017. 175-188.
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“The Violence of Story: Teaching In Our Time and Narrative Rhetoric.” Teaching Hemingway and War. Kent State UP. 2015.
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“Smooth Structures: Narrative Form as Ethical Contact in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop.” Style 47.3 (2013): 364-379.
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“Recalcitrant Simplicity: Thin Characters and Thick Narration in A Farewell to Arms” Narrative 20.3 (2012): 301-321.
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“The Spacious Foreground: Interpreting Simplicity and Ecocritical Ethics in The Old Man and The Sea.” The Hemingway Review 31.2 (2012): 27-45.
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“Speaking With the Separatists: Craig Womack and the Relevance of Literary History.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 21.1 (2009): 1-17.