Writer

Selected Literary Engagements

“On Shitheads and Revolutionaries.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, Issue 26 (2025). Special Issue, Liveable Futures: Radical Imagination as Method // Radical Imagination as Survival.

“Claiming the Lives and Stories of My People: Displacement, Settlement, and Identity.” In On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples. Eds. Emily Grafton and David MacDonald. University of Regina Press, 2025.

Tin House Winter 2025 Writers Workshop, January-February 2025.

Cagro Bhai (Brother Crow). Shortlisted for Briarpatch Magazine’s Writing in the Margins Contest, January 2024.

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Late Fall Writers Residency. November 2023.

The Radical Role of Developmental Editing. Editors Weekly. 27 July, 2023.

with Kristen Darch. “Whose CanLit: Solidarity and Accountability in Literary Communities” in Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Eds. Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker. Toronto: Book*hug, 2018. 177–183

Mama’s Routine. This Magazine July/August 2018: 32.

In Conversation with Vivek Shraya, editor of VS.BooksShameless Magazine (blog). 18 May 2018.

Cautious Optimism and CanLit. Canadian Women in the Literary Arts. 21 December 2017.

Beyond Inclusion: Twenty Years of Writing Thru Race. Ricepaper Magazine 20.4 2016: 20–23.

Gary Gets Angry SometimesUnderstorey Magazine 9: Home and Away. Dec 2016.

In Conversation with Shani Mootoo, author of Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab. CWILA.com, 7 March 2016.

The River, The People and The Industry: The damming history of the Ottawa River Watershed. The Leveller 8.3 Nov/Dec 2015:6.

In Conversation with Alex Leslie, author of The Things I Heard About You. Matrix Magazine, 18 January 2015.

In Conversation with Larissa Lai and Rita Wong, authors of Sybil Unrest. Lemon Hound, 20 June 2014.

Beyond Autoethnography: Fictocriticism as a Feminist Writing StrategySouth Asian Review 34.3 2013: 103–120.

Steak Spice. filling Station issue 57 Nov 2013: 35.

with Kristen Darch. Beyond BullyingBriarpatch Magazine 42.5 Sept/Oct 2013: 40.

— reprinted in Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook, 6th ed. Pearson Education Inc. 2015: 433

Expect Expectations: Reading “Ethnic” Literature Through a Multicultural LensPlenitude: Your Queer Arts and Literature Magazine. Feb 2013.

Vamps, Heroines, Otherwise: Diasporic Women Resisting EssentialismTopia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 26 2011: 127–144.

Clean Up Time. Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women. Ed. Andrea Routley. Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2010. 40–46