Lake Ice Sings ~ Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice, edited by Yvonne Blomer, Caitlin Press, 2026.

CHANNEL MIGRATION – Schneider Creek Audiowalk, Dance Performance, & Urban Hike Experience
Open Ears Festival of Sound and Music, Kitchener ON, May 2025

Somehow, Potatoes + Interview, Poetry in Place: Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario Bioregion, edited by Deborah Bowen, Guernica Editions, 2025

The Isabel Letters ~ The New Quarterly, Issue 172, Fall 2024
_{(winner of the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest. For the story behind the essay, see “Finding the Form”)}

surface/tension – Schneider Creek audiowalk (first iteration) in Kitchener, ON (2024)

Land Matters ~ insideWaterloo, Climate Justice issue, August 2022

Birdland ~ Being Home: An Essay Anthology (Madville Press, 2021)

Roadways ~ The New Quarterly, Issue 159, Summer 2021

*Baked Clay ~ The Common: A Modern Sense of Place, Issue 18
_{(nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2020)}

Slave Days in the Queen’s Bush ~ Hamilton Arts & Letters, Issue 13.1

*Ten Crossings in the Midwestern Borderlands ~ Slag Glass City
_{(nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2020)}

The Fake MFA Syllabus ~ Creative Nonfiction, Issue 72 (PDF scan)

Last Chance ~ Burningword Literary Journal, No. 96

Dental Therapy ~ The Rappahannock Review, Issue 7.2 (plus: interview)

Citizen Mussels ~ Utne Reader (originally published in Boulevard, Vol. 34)

Burning Silence ~ The Drum: A Literary Magazine for Your Ears, Issue 75

Waterlines ~ Anthology of Forests, Ilyali Press, 2019 (excerpted essay)

Bestiary ~ The Citron Review

Walking on Water ~ Psaltery & Lyre

From the Banks of the Grand ~ The New Quarterly
_{(shortlisted for the 2011 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest)}

Pierre Berton & the Economics of Authenticity ~ Canadian Literature

Book Projects

Channel Migration: Moving with an Urban Creek
Sydney Lancaster and I are currently developing a book version of our 2025 Schneider Creek audiowalk. The project is at the layout stage and we gratefully acknowledge funding from the Ontario Arts Council (via a Recommender Grant from Cormorant Books), the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, and the City of Kitchener Tier II Community Fund. More details TBA.

Travel Your Road Again
I am currently seeking publication for a book manuscript composed of previously published and newly written essays that explore ideas of home, belonging, and place-making. Braided with cultural and literary critique, archival research and reportage, personal reflection, these lyric essays explore interrelated, but often overlooked, ecological, spiritual, and social histories. Toggling between local and continental scales, different pieces explore the double edge of faith and doubt, the overlap of immigration and environmental crises, and the histories and counter-histories of settlement and land theft. Together, the essays seek after James Baldwin’s exhortation to “go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again, and tell the truth of it. Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself, but know whence you came.”

I gratefully acknowledge financial support for this project from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council (via Recommender Grants from House of Anansi Press, The New Quarterly, and Hamilton Arts & Letters), and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund (via the Good Foundation Inc.)