writing
TAKE TAKE TAKE
A short story about hybridity and community, published in Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories (Exile, 2016), edited by Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay.
Republished in Exile Literary Quarterly, Volume 40, no. 3.
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IN THE AURORA
A series of five prose poems published in the anthology The Calgary Renaissance (Chaudiere, 2016), edited by Derek Beaulieu and Rob McLennan.
ERASURE: A SHORT STORY
A graphic short story created by erasing everything but speech balloons from selected pages of Batwoman: Elegy (DC Comics, 2010) by Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III, to create a new narrative from the remains.
Published as a chapbook by above/ground press in 2016.
CONCEPTUALIZING MOUNTAIN
An essay exploring the relationship between David OReilly's experimental video game Mountain and the tradition of conceptual writing and art.
Published on First Person Scholar in 2016.
DYSTOPOETICS: THE BROKEN DREAM OF CONCEPTUALISM
An essay exploring the shortcomings — both ethical and structural — of the Conceptualist writing aesthetic in literature, published in FreeFall 25.3 (2015).
NOMINATION: Emerging Writer Award at the Alberta Magazine Publishers' Association's 2016 Alberta Magazine Awards
THIN AND PURE
A series of visual sonnets generated by translating selected poems from The Xenotext, Book 1 (Coach House, 2015) by Christian Bök.
Published as a chapbook by Chromium Dioxide Press in 2015, in a limited edition of 27 copies to accompany the special edition of The Xenotext, Book 1 by Christian Bök.
IV FROM ECHOLOGUE
A series of sound poems in the form of haiku, generated from the onomatopoeia found in Batwoman: Elegy (DC Comics, 2010) by Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III.
Published as a chapbook by No Press in 2015, in a limited edition of 40 copies.
FROM ABSENTIS NUMERUS
An excerpt from the in-progress fiction manuscript Absentis numerus.
Published as a chapbook by Spacecraft Press in 2015, in a limited edition of 50 copies.
FLIGHT PATTERNS
A series of visual poems generated by tracking my eye movements while reading Batwoman: Elegy (DC Comics) by Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III.
Published as a chapbook by No Press in 2013, in a limited edition of 60 copies.
LOST MEMORY
A series of eight poems published in Matrix Magazine 99: "Calgary."
DULOSIS
A short story about hybridity and belonging, published in Matrix Magazine 94: "New Winnipeg Writing."
WINNER: 2012 Lit POP Fiction Award
SWARM THEORY
A short story about faith and transformation, published as a digital chapbook by Little Fiction in 2012.
GHOST SKIN
A short story about family and grieving, published in Five Quarterly 2.
FIELD GUIDE TO KLEPTOPARASITISM
A short story about theft and hybridity, published in Broken Pencil 51 and online.
SEMIFINALIST: 2011 Broken Pencil Indie Writers' Deathmatch