Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
“Undoing the Fairy Tale of Alice Munro,” The Walrus (Fall 2024)
“Doneness,” The Writer (Summer 2023)
“Love Bite,” The Breakwater Review, Issue 33 (Winter 2023)
“Hard Cut,” Game: A Sport Literate Anthology (Summer 2023) (originally appeared in Sport Literate, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 2019)
“Panzanalia,” Salamander, No. 53 (Winter 2023)
“Every Night Like New Year’s,” Prairie Fire, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer 2022)
“To Do,” The Malahat Review, Issue 217 (Winter 2022)
“Baby Food,” Room Magazine (Winter 2019)
“Transit,” Hobart Pulp (Winter 2019)
“A Deep, Sweet Hurt,” Under the Gum Tree, Issue 28 (July 2018)
“Roping It In,” Room Magazine (Spring 2018)
“Patchwork,” Room Magazine (Spring 2018)
“Am I Ugly?,” The Butter (Summer 2015)
Reviews
Small Ceremonies by Kyle Edwards, The Malahat Review, Issue 232 (Winter 2026)
Late September by Amy Mattes, The Malahat Review, Issue 228 (Fall 2024)
Small Batch Bakes by Ed Kimber, CBC Life (Fall 2022)
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, CBC Life (Spring 2020)
“Timely and Timeless: A Review of Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This,” PRISM International (Winter 2019)
“Storytelling and Cruelty: A Review of Miriam Toews’ Women Talking,” The Ex-Puritan, Issue 42 (Summer 2018)
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Media Coverage
Interview with The Writer Magazine (Summer 2023)
“Life With My Father: Chen Okafor in Conversation WIth Justina Elias,” The Malahat Review (Fall 2021)
Awards & Scholarships
2024 Honourable Mention in Grain Magazine’s Short Grain Contest (“Pressure Marks”)
2023 First place in The Breakwater Review’s Fiction Contest (“Love Bite”)
2022 Third place in Prairie Fire’s Fiction Contest (“Every Night Like New Year’s”)
2022 Third place in The Writer’s Short Story Contest (“Doneness”)
2022 Nominated for Canadian National Magazine Award in One-of-a-Kind Storytelling (“To Do”)
2022 Second place in Salamander’s Fiction Contest (“Panzanalia”)
2022 Longlisted for Pulp Literature’s Raven Short Story Award (“Pressure Marks”)
2021 Shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s Fiction Contest (“Outreach”)
2021 First place for The Malahat Review’s Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize (“To Do”)
2021 Shortlisted for Pulp Literature’s Magpie Award for Poetry (“Inspiration”)
2020 Longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize (“Every Night Like New Year’s”)
2020 Notable essay in Best American Sports Writing 2020 (“Hard Cut”)
2019 Honourable Mention in Room Magazine’s Short Forms Contest (“Baby Food”)
2019 First place in Sport Literate’s Fight Contest (“Hard Cut”)
2018 Honourable mention in Room Magazine’s Creative Nonfiction Contest (“Roping It In'“)
2018 Longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize (“Soft Spot”)
2018 Honourable mention in Room Magazine’s Short Forms Contest (“Patchwork”)
2017 Finalist in Narrative’s Spring Story Contest (“A Deep, Sweet Hurt”)
2017 Finalist in Under the Gum Tree’s (dis)empowered contest (“A Deep, Sweet Hurt”)
2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant
2013, 2014 Constance Rooke Scholarship
2013 Master’s Growth Fund Scholarship
2013 McLelland & Stewart Scholarship
2011, 2012 Walter E. Swayze Scholarship in English
2011 Lillian Gibbons Scholarship in the Humanities
2009-2013 Dean’s Honour List - Student of Highest Distinction
2009-2013 Robert Bruce Scholarship
2008 Special Entrance Scholarship
2008 President’s Award of Merit: Arts
