selected poetry portfolio
awards
2025:
3rd Place, International Human Rights Arts Movement, Rhonda Gail Williford Award for Poetry: “I, Carmine”
Participant, Winter Writers’ Residency, The Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, mentored by Danez Smith and Omar El Akkad.
2024:
Finalist, Radar Poetry’s The Coniston Prize: “Dismantling the Leviathan”, “Ephemera”, “Naming the Doe” and “The Lost Stations”
2023:
Shortlisted for PULPLiterature’s The Kingfisher Poetry Prize: “sel·vage”
Longlisted for PULPLiterature’s The Kingfisher Poetry Prize: “In Sickness Duplex”
2022:
1st & 2nd place, PULPLiterature’s The Magpie Award for Poetry: “griefbody” and “Harvest”
2021:
Finalist, Radar Poetry’s The Coniston Prize: “Traces”
Honourable Mention, PULPLit’s The Magpie Award for Poetry: “Vessel”
Finalist, Animal Heart Press Poetry Chapbook Contest: “Radiant as Any Wound”
2020:
1st place, Room’s Poetry Contest: “Heirloom”
Editors’ Prize, PULPLit‘s The Magpie Award for Poetry: “Hummingbird Elegy”
2019:
Shortlisted for CBC Poetry Prize: “Caribou in the Anthropocene“
Best of the Net nominee by Radar Poetry: “Lions’ Lament”
Finalist for Radar Poetry‘s The Coniston Prize: “Au Zoo d’Abidjan/At the Abidjan Zoo“
Best Canadian Poetry 2019 Anthology: “Ode to the Cockroach”
2018:
1st place, Room‘s Short Forms Contest: “Sissi Barra: the way of smoke“
2nd place, Frontier Poetry‘s Award for New Poets: “Heart postpartum“
ONLINE
Chestnut Review: "Limbo”
PULPLiterature: “Laundryman Haibun”
The Ekphrastic Review: Grand Bassam Saudade
Wild Roof Journal: A Disambiguation: La Arribada
Eunoia: “Story of A” ; “Simulacrum” ; “Self-Portrait as Roundabout Mannequin” ;
“Self-Portrait in Metamorphosis” ; “linguistics”
PULPLiterature: “Vessel”
Garden - A Literary Journal: “[time is green]”
The Learned Pig: “Le President; The Crocodile Feeder”
The Night Heron Barks: “Watermark; Sitting Foxtrot with Comb”
Poetry and Covid: “Benediction for a Quarantine Kitchen”
Q/A Poetry: “Every woman is a star”; “red canvas”
PULPLit: “The Chicken Carver”
Okay Donkey: “break/through”
The Ekphrastic Review: “Counterstroke”
Rust & Moth: “Four Aspects of Language: A sea lives on my tongue“
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “evening“
The Maynard: “Ode to the Cockroach“; “my tiny minnow“
SWWIM: “maquis“
Literary Mama: “Demeter
Prairie Fire: The Hudson’s Bay Blanket: A Counter-Archive (forthcoming Spring 2026)
Caitlin Press - An Anthology of Tree Poems: “Elegy for a Forester”
Best Canadian Poetry 2019 Anthology: “Ode to the Cockroach”
CV2 (Emergence Issue): “Ode to Rust”
The Fiddlehead: “atelier”
Room: “Split Ends”
emerge 17, The Writer’s Studio Anthology: “Abidjan Aubade”, “Fanicos: The Laundrymen of Banco” and “Ode to the peacock”.
EVENT: “Tobermory”
oratorealis: “If only casseroles could scream” (Collaborative poem with Fiona Tinwei Lam, Stephen Berg, Viola Prinz, Emily Olsen)
The Fiddlehead: “Icarus”
POETRY BOOK REVIEWS
Reviews of Derek Webster’s National Animal, Ben Robinson’s As Is and Holly Flauto’s Permission to Settle
On the Cutting Edge: A Review of Emily Osborne’s Safety Razor
Exploding into Night explores Toronto’s Inner City
Life in Counterpoint (review of Anne Simpson’s poetry collection Is)