EDUCATION

• Graduate Certificate (Candidate for 2022) – Creative Writing
  Humber College, Humber School for Writers, Faculty of Media & Creative Arts (ON, Canada)
  
  
• MA English – Literatures of Modernity
  Ryerson University, Faculty of Arts (ON, Canada)
  September 2013 – October 2014
  
  
• AWA Certification – (2016) Workshop Leadership and Training, Amherst Writers & Artists Method

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EVENTS, READINGS & TALKS

• Creative Writing Workshops for Toronto Writer’s Collective in Ottawa, ON. With Deaf Spectrum ASL translators, lip reading, and the Canadian Hearing Society translator captioned, October 28, 2020 and December 2, 2020.
• Introductory Creative Writing Workshop for mental health for Toronto Writer’s Collective, with co-facilitator Andrea Thompson, for Toronto Arts Council Neighbourhood Arts Network in support of Toronto Arts Council’s Newcomer and Refugee Mentorship program, August 12, 2020
• Mentor and Workshop Instructor for TWC’s Write On! Program, with support from the Toronto Public Library, October 4, 2019 (10 weeks).
• Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator @ Progress Place, 576 Church St, Toronto, via Toronto Writers Collective and Ve’ahavta (2018-2019). 
• Mentor and Workshop Instructor for TWC’s Write On! Program, with support from the Toronto Public Library (2017).
• Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator @ Fred Victor Transitional Housing Centre via Toronto Writers Collective and Ve’ahavta (2016-2017).
• Introduction to Fiction (TA) – English 108 (Fall 2013), Ryerson University, Toronto, September 2013-January 2014.

• Longlisted, 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips
• 2021 Grant, The Puritan
• July 2019 Book Review: The Better Monsters – by Jade Wallace on bywords.ca.
  ‘Arts are not efficiencies’: Publishing workers demand reversal of Ontario Arts Council cuts, Press Conference, QP Briefing, Toronto Star, 01.10.2019. 
• Interview: What’s The Big Idea? Henry of Pelham Winery Reading and Salon Series, Armstrong Strategy Group Blog.
• Ontario’s Best Books 2018, NOW Magazine (June 4, 2018)
• The Better Monsters has been mentioned in the Toronto Star, CBC Books, NOW Magazine, the National Post, Canadian Newswire and Quill & Quire
• Finalist, Trillium Book Award For Poetry (English Language) 2018, for The Better Monsters
• Shortlisted, Raymond Souster Award 2018, The Better Monsters (2017).
• (Radio Broadcast) – HOWL, CIUT 89.5 FM On-air (Air Date January 30, 2018, 10-11 p.m.) @ Hart House, Toronto, ON.
• Book Review: The Better Monsters – MichaelDennisPoet.Blogspot.ca, Thursday, December 21, 2017, Review by Michael Dennis.
• Interviewed for Asian Canadian Writers, December 3, 2017.
• Interviewed for Canadian Immigrant Magazine. November 22, 2017.
• Alumni Notice: Ryerson University Website, December 2017.
• (Radio Broadcast) – CKLN FM 88.1 On-air (Air Date TBC) Recording of Pivot Reading Series, March 8, 2017, 8 p.m., @ The Steady Café, Toronto, ON.
• Chapbook Review: PTSD south beach – Broken Pencil Magazine, Issue 74, February 17th, 2017, Review by Klara du Plessis.
• English 1001 ‘Introduction to Fiction‘ November 26, 2016, York University (Tutorial Discussion led by Kristen Smith, PhD TA: Poetry after Postmodernism, local emerging poets in Toronto, ‘the fields‘ (poem) featured in discussion, along with PTSD south beach, and the use of chapbooks as a medium).
• (TV Broadcast) Featured Poet, RogersTV, Omni, International Poetry Month segment, April 2016 Airdate April 16, 2016.
• 2016 Breitling Chapbook Prize, Finalist, “PTSD south beach” (Grey Borders Books).
• “The Sculptor” (poem on exhibit) Poetry & Art V, Mail Art Exhibition – (Curator,
  Lois Anne) The Good Tern Coop Gallery and Café, Maine, April 1st-30th, 2016.
• 4th place, “#BrinkLegislation” (flash fiction) Flash Future Contest,
  The Molotov Cocktail, Portland, Oregon, 2015.
• A 2015 Worth a Read, “#BrinkLegislation” (flash fiction), Stephen Vramey, Blogger and Author of ‘Glass Animals’ (Pure Slush Books).
• National Poetry Month’s, New Poet Selection, “The Lonesome Lunch” (poem)
  League of Canadian Poets, Toronto, 2013.

• Juror, 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Poetry Award
• Judge, 2021 Heliconian Anthology
• Judge, 2019 Arc Poetry Mag­a­zine’s Con­fed­er­a­tion Poets Prize
• Juror, 2020 Trillium Book Award for Poetry in the English Language
• Canthius Contest: Coordinator and Creator of the Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry (2019)
• Mentor and Workshop Instructor for TWC’s Write On! Program, with support from the Toronto Public Library (2019).
• Juror, 2019 Trillium Book Award for Poetry in the English Language
• 2019 Selection Committee Member for the League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause.
• Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator @ Progress Place, 576 Church St, Toronto, via Toronto Writers Collective and Ve’ahavta (2018-2019). 
• Judge, 16th Annual “Words from the Street” Creative Writing Contest (2017).
• Mentor and Workshop Instructor for TWC’s Write On! Program, with support from the Toronto Public Library (2017). 
• Editorial Board Member, Canthius.
• Judge, 15th Annual “Words from the Street” Creative Writing Contest (2016).
• Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator @ Fred Victor Transitional Housing Centre via Toronto Writers Collective and Ve’ahavta (2016-2017). 

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

• The Roach Queen (2020) Chapbook
• The Better Monsters (Mansfield Press) (October 2017)
• PTSD south beach (Grey Borders Books) (2016) Chapbook

Anthologies

• Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, ChiZine Publications, Toronto, ON, 2015.
• The Molotov Cocktail: Prize Winners Anthology, 4th place, “#BrinkLegislation” (flash fiction) The Molotov Cocktail, Portland, Oregon, TBD.

 Journals

• Two poems: “washing” and “To Name Something” (forthcoming Summer 2022 issue) Contemporary Verse 2
  
  
• “not these roaches” (poem), (Issue 60.1 “Wonder”, Fall 2021) PRISM International
  
  
• “My Neighbor” (poem), September 2021, (Issue 31, Minola Review)
  
  
• “Keys” (poem), February 6, 2020. Poetry Pause, League of Canadian Poets
  
  
• “alien alien” (poem)
  World Literature Today (Online), Norman, OK (U.S.A.), July 4, 2017

• “scars and prayers” (poem)
  EVENT 44/2, New Westminster, BC, 2015.
  
  
• “with eliot, with us” (poem)
  White Wall Review, Issue #38, Toronto, ON, 2014.
  
  
• “Salon” (poem)
  Canadian Literature, Vol. 217, Vancouver, BC, 2013.
  
  
• “Brains, Brains, Brains” (poem)
  Apex Magazine, Issue #66, Lexington, Kentucky, (U.S.A.) 2014.
  
  
• “The Lonesome Lunch” (poem)
  League of Canadian Poets, National Poetry Month’s New Poet Selection, Toronto, 2013.
  
  
• “#BrinkLegislation” (flash fiction, 4th place)
  The Molotov Cocktail, #FlashFuture Mega-Issue, Portland, Oregon (U.S.A.), 2015.
  

• “Do the Things You Must and Forget the Rest: On Priscila Uppal with Canisia Lubrin, Dani Spinosa, and Meaghan Strimas” Canthius Blog, April 15, 2020.
• “Jamaica Farewell and the Divided World: Guadalupe Muro’s Interview Questionnaire – 10 Questions with the Author of Air Carnation” BookThug Blog, August 1, 2014.
• “An Interview with Guadalupe Muro, the author of Air Carnation” BookThug Blog, July 28, 2014.
• “The Romances of Lorca, Odes Like Neruda: The Inspiration and Recording Process Behind Guadalupe Muro’s, Songs For Runaway Girls” BookThug Blog, July 4, 2014.
• ” ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’: Live readings by Aisha Sasha John and Julie Joosten at the words(on)stages reading series” BookThug Blog, June 24, 2014.
• “The Mysterious Figure Who Leaves Books All Over the City — My thoughts on Air Carnation by Guadalupe Muro and Other Things” BookThug Blog, June 9, 2014.
• “Life Actually or Never-Ending Frontiers — The Jacob Wren Interview Part 2” BookThug Blog, May 29, 2014.
• “ ‘I Have Never Watched Pornography’: Jacob Wren’s Interview Questionnaire – 11 Questions with the Author of Polyamorous Love Song” BookThug Blog, May 27, 2014.
• “Broken-Winged Blackbirds: A Delicately Scripted Interview with Sandra Ridley” BookThug Blog, May 26, 2014.
• “A Reading that Made ‘the Audience Feel Pure Joy’ ” BookThug Blog, May 13, 2014.
• “Classic Movie Nights hit Markham” Markham Times, Community News, Vol. 3, #7, February 19–25, 2011.
• “Save up to three lives – in one hour” Markham Times, Frontpage Feature Story, Vol. 3, #5. February 5–11, 2011.
• Staff Writer, The Setonian, 2003-2004
  1. “Seton Hall forges international alliance”
  2. “Sleep deprivation a problem”
  3. “SHU magazine readers remain loyal”
  4. “Casinos give Atlantic City visitors plenty to play for”
  5. “Comedy clubs deal out laughs”
  6. “St. Patrick’s Day celebrations”

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WORKSHOPS, MEMBERSHIPS, ORGANIZATIONS & AFFILIATIONS