About

I am an intermedia artist, poet, scholar, editor, and Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. I hold a Ph.D. in English from York University and, from 2018-2019, I was an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

My research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary avant-garde art and literature and the literatures of Canada, with a special emphasis on intermedial practices, small press literary cultures, and sound studies. I am the author of Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press). I also edited and introduced Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks) as well as the forthcoming We Have Seasonal Bodies: The Poetry of Gerry Shikatani (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). I introduced and co-edited I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn. My writing has been published or is forthcoming in popular and scholarly forums, including The Globe and Mail, Jacket2, ASAP/J, Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Canadian Poetry, The Miramirchi Reader, The Dalhousie Review, and numerous collections.

In my creative practice, I work with language between and across media – in print, digital audio and field recordings, animated video, 3D-printed sculpture, temporary tattoos, and more – and have published, exhibited, and performed nationally and internationally in Canada, the United States, France, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and elsewhere. I am the author of I Confess (Coach House Books) and Surfaces (Invisible Publishing), excerpts of which were selected for Best American Experimental Writing: 2020. Both of these books have placed in the Alcuin Society’s Competition for Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. My work can also be found in literary journals, including The Capilano Review, Echolocation, Revue Doc(k)s, Arc Poetry, Berkeley Poetry Review, Trinity Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

I live in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia.