I've lived across Canada, but Nova Scotia is home.  

 

​My writing about mental health, social justice, and finding joy where it seems there’s none to be had has appeared in various journals and newspapers, and on CBC radio. I was longlisted for the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize.​ I have an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King's College, degrees in journalism and social work, and I study tarot on the side.

 

​My debut novel, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, (Vagrant, 2024) was a Toronto Star Top 20 Book of Summer 2024 and a 49thShelf.com Book of the Year.  My first non-fiction book, Enriched by Catastrophe: Social Work and Social Conflict after the Halifax Explosion, was published by Fernwood in 2007, and my debut memoir, A Good Girl's Guide to Lying: Losing My Memory, Searching for Truth, & Confronting Complex Trauma, will be published by Nimbus in September 2026.​

 

I've worked in community as an executive director and consultant for nonprofits, with a particular focus on mental health, women's well-being, and social policy development. I helped create a social policy framework for Nova Scotia, and during my time working in government, I worked on Nova Scotia's first mental health and addictions strategy.

 

I combine my social work and writing skills to offer coaching and support to writers at all levels. Using a trauma-informed, motivational approach, I help writers transform their experiences into words that have the power to heal.​

 

I'm a board member of the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society and the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, a Writers' Council member and board member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, and a member of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick and the Writers' Union of Canada.​​

 

I live in the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People, with my two adult children, four cats, and a dog who thinks she's a cat.