I wrote the poetry collection Drank, Recruited (Guernica Editions, 2023), which won the 2024 Nelson Ball Prize and was longlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Award. You can order it here.
With my friend Benjamin de Boer, I wrote the chapbook No need to know / Infinite Belowness (Solipcyst, 2025), which traces a longtime collaboration, parts of which are also available here. We both like Friederike Mayröcker and transcribing in public spaces.
My second book, BED YEAR, is forthcoming in 2027. BED YEAR is a multi-surface project about lying down and splaying out. It dwells in the pleasures of suspension, taking up those infoldings in the flesh where I stretches out languorously. To write it, I lay down in many places including Western Front in Vancouver, where I was artist in residence in May 2027, and held a durational bed jam, documentation of which you can see here.
Using altered writing states to collapse the encyclopedic form with the diary entry, BED YEAR demands overtime for the unemployed dreamer. It is inspired by Sarah Dowling’s book Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form (2024), which I also reviewed in the Journal of Modern Literature.
With Benjamin de Boer, Nicholas Hauck, Fan Wu, Eddy Wang, and Yoyo Comay, I am a co-founder and performer with the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective (2020 - ), who attempt to push the practices of translation beyond the tongue and further into the body. We use methods of homophonics, transcription, field recording, algorithmic distortion, and cross-disciplinary hybridity to create spaces for heterotopic pedagogy. Via collaborative seminars, workshops, and performances, we develop strategies for withdrawal and resistance from the instrumentalization of language systems. We’ve translated Paul Celan’s Musselheap and composed a fungi opera. These and many other sonic translations are on our vinyl sonic album called HOT TUB. We talk about learning here with Timmy Simonds. You can see/hear more here.
I am on the editorial collective of Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation who bring important political and poetic texts into the English speaking-world for the first time.
I am completing a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature (Research-Creation) at the University of Toronto, where I study experiments in women’s poetic life-writing, and how such a life comes to be. I also teach courses at the university on the antihero.
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