I write
Fiction + Creative Non-Fiction
I write about
being a late bloomer books cults dogs family fashion flash fiction girlhood hippies kids memoir memory my strange childhood places I've worked politics reading Red Star Tattoo relationships revolutionaries secrets sisters talking to strangers tattoo the Downtown Eastside Vancouver work writing
Red Star Tattoo My Life as Girl Revolutionary
- Winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
- Shortlisted for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston award for Creative Non-Fiction
- Named one of the 2016 Best Books of the year by CBC Books, National Post and Now Magazine
“I picked up the book in an afternoon and – each page turned in steady anticipation – did not put it down until I was finished.” Globe and Mail
Press for Red Star Tattoo
Other writing projects
- Winner of the Sub-Terrain Lush Triumphant non-fiction 2018
- Creative Non-fiction Society 2019 long list
- Geist postcard contest shortlist
- Contributor to the Better Next Year Christmas Anthology
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