Writing about people at the edges, and the forces that put us there.

I’m a writer, editor, and critic whose work has encompassed fiction, literary culture, queer media, and social-justice journalism, and a proud member of The Writers’ Union of Canada.

My debut short-fiction collection, Nothing Looks Familiar, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2014, named a ReLit Award finalist and selected as a National Post 2015 Best Book. Its stories follow outsiders, non-conformists, and people in difficult circumstances as they try to alter the conditions of their lives, sometimes at considerable cost. The collection was later banned by the Michigan Department of Corrections. My fiction has also been nominated for the Journey Prize, and twice shortlisted in the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival’s short-fiction competition.

I edited Friend. Follow. Text. #storiesFromLivingOnline, an anthology of literary fiction about social media that received a Silver award in the Best Anthology category of Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Book of the Year Awards.

I began writing and editing for queer and feminist media at eighteen as one of the editors and publishers of Toronto’s Rites newspaper. During that period, I was also involved with AIDS Action NOW! and delivered international queer news on community radio. I later contributed extensively to Xtra, including “Free Agent,” a column examining sex work, drug use, harm reduction, and the connections between queer and anti-poverty politics.

Since 2007, I have reviewed books for Quill & Quire, and in 2024 I became Book Reviews Editor at Plenitude. Earlier editorial roles include Fuse and The Winnipeg Review. My criticism and journalism have appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Canadian Literature, Literary Review of Canada, NOW Magazine, Lambda Literary Review, and many other publications.

My reporting has addressed HIV criminalization, reproductive freedom, bodily autonomy, sexuality and gender identity, and movements for social change, including work cited by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. In it, I aim to centre the experiences of people too often reduced to stereotypes.

Whatever the form, my work is grounded in close attention to language, power, and whose experiences are taken seriously.