Happy New Year!

Now’s a great time for new creative beginnings and sustaining artistic goals. I have several course offerings during the winter season. The City of Windsor Recreation & Education department is currently enrolling for Creative Writing classes at Forest Glade Community Centre and Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre…

Artist and fellow poet Adriane Clipperton recently shared her sketches of yours truly drawn at TOAST Open Mic Poetry’s monthly readings held at Phog Lounge over the 2024 year…

Phylum Press out of London, Ontario gave me a social media shout-out on Instagram in November for their debut issue, published in the fall of 2024. My poem, “Lessons from Bryophyta,” was part of the Nano Moss collection.…

In October, I had the pleasure of being part of a publishing panel hosted by writer Vanessa Shields at Balanced Life Wellness Centre in Essex…

I’m preparing for my second ever writer’s retreat, this time with the good folks over at The Chestnut Review. A group of us are heading over to Mexico…

On Sunday, October 27 I’ll be part of a panel discussion with local authors about our various publishing experiences as well as sharing our tips for getting your work seen by audiences. This event is presented by Gertrude’s Writing Room & Balanced Life Wellness Centre in Essex. Space is limited to twenty participants and tickets are $40, which includes refreshments, and a post-panel author mingle...

I’m always grateful to share that several new pieces of mine have been accepted for publication in literary journals and an anthology by UK press Saraband. My poem “Circlet” now appears in the inaugural issue of Pictura Journal, as does an interview about my creative process. A prose-y poem called “Hurricane” recently made the seventeenth edition of The Petigru Review...

Just a reminder that the City of Windsor Rec and Ed department is currently enrolling for Creative Writing classes taking place this fall at Forest Glade Community Centre and Mackenzie Hall. I offer two different courses at both locations, one for tweens (ages 12 to 15), and another for adults (ages 16 and up)...

This Friday, I’ll be giving a fifteen-minute poetry reading at the Tecumseh location of Indigo. Joining me are several local poets sharing work, including Emily Roe, Vanessa Shields, and many more. This free evening of spoken word will begin at 5:30 p.m. and wrap up by 7 p.m. Please come out and support this community of writers! My chapbook, Mayflies, will also be available for sale.

I have several new pieces that have been published in journals and an anthology…

At the end of 2023, I had the distinct pleasure of editing a writer whose work I’ve admired for some time. Aletheia Luna has been managing the spiritually-oriented website LonerWolf, alongside her partner Mateo Sol, for the past twelve years…

In late February, Short Reads published a prose poem of mine called “Deluge” as part of their weekly feature of established and emerging writers working in flash…

The City of Windsor released an online zine/collection for the Windsor Voices Initiative to celebrate National Poetry Month, the results of which were posted today…

Issue four of Windsor Public Library’s literary journal, Pagination, is set to be released on Wednesday, May 1st, with a launch party at Chapter Two Brewing Company…

Mayflies, my debut chapbook from Finishing Line Press, is now available for purchase in Windsor’s premier bookshop, Biblioasis…

Geeked to share that Last Resort Literary Review has taken a poem of mine that I’ve been trying to publish for a couple years now, a piece called “Plan B.”

The poem, in essence, captures the saying “life happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

In mid- to late-October, Atticus Review will be publishing a sixth poem from my graduate MFA thesis titled “Spotlights & Shadows.”

The piece is a longer narrative that relays an unnerving and haunting event that happened in my high school when I was a junior there...

I’m honored to share that a third poem from my thesis has been given an honorable mention in the Poetry Society of Michigan’s (PSM) annual contest. The piece, “New Buffalo,” was submitted for the Founder’s Prize, a category for poems about Michigan, and it will be published alongside the other contest winners in a fall edition of Peninsula Poets…

I just received word that another poem from my thesis has been named a finalist in Coastal Shelf’s inaugural FuPo Poetry Contest. The contest was designed for poems that are both funny and poignant (hence FuPo), and my work “Now That We Use TV-Tray Tables…

The abstract for my Creative Writing MFA thesis with Bowling Green State University is now available to view on the OhioLINK library catalog. The thesis, Stinging Nettle, is comprised of poems created and refined during my time in grad school—the contents of which may eventually form a full-length book in the future…