Readings

Banff Centre Summer Writers 2025 Literary Cabaret hosted by Catriona Strang, with Harryette Mullen, Teresa Wong, Concetta Principe, Erika Thorkelson, Kasia Van Schaik, Conor Kerr, and Catriona Strang / August 28, 2025

CV2 Spring Launch Virtual Reading 2024 // Online on Zoom / May 1st, 2024

Humber Literary Review Summer 2023 Issue Launch Party // The Piston, 7pm, Toronto / June 21st, 2023

Ephemera Reading Series // Virtual / Watch full reading HERE / April 19th, 2023

Emerging Writers Reading Series @ Glad Day Bookshop with Tamara Jong, Michael Russell, Carly Vandergriendt, and Maša Torbica / October 14th, 2019

Speakeasy Reading Series alumni reader with Jacqueline Valencia and Kai Taddei // Wise Bar, 7pm, Toronto / March 25th, 2019

Moez Surani’s collective reading to protest the 2017 Presidential Inauguration in the US // KnifeForkBook, 8pm, Toronto / January 20th 2017

Speakeasy Reading Series 2nd-year reader with Jowita Bydlowska and Shane Neilson // The Steady Cafe & Bar, Toronto / March 2017

Slackline Reading Series Feature Reader with Inspiritus Press and AJ Stainsby // Burdock on Bloor, Toronto / March 2017

Speakeasy Reading Series 1st-year reader with Jean-Marc Ah-Sen, Hillary Rexe, and Andy McGuire // The Steady Cafe & Bar, Toronto / November 2015

Residencies & Retreats

Banff Centre Summer Writers 2025 with Catriona Strang, Douglas Kearney, and Eric Sneathen / (August 17-30, 2025) 

Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat 2023 / July 11th-21st, 2023 

In Surreal Life, created and facilitated by Shira Erlichman, visiting poets Kaveh Akbar, Sarah Kay, & Adam Falkner / October 1st-31st 2020

Workshops, Classes, Mentorships

as facilitator / instructor / mentor

Introduction to Creative Writing, Sheridan College Continuing and Professional Studies (online) / September–December 2023

Poetry workshops for and by writers with lived experience of mental illness @ InkWell Workshops (inkwellworkshops.com) / June 17th, June 10th, May 13th, April 13th, March 4th, 2020

Poet Mentor, "In My Mother Tongue | poetry & portraits" at Koffler Arts Centre, Toronto / March to May, 2018

Poetry Workshops at Parkdale Project Read, Toronto / November 2017 to March 2018

as participant / student / mentee

Brooklyn Poets Teacher Training with facilitator Jay Deshpande / 5 weeks August–September 2025

Poetry mentorship with poet Kyle Carrero Lopez / July 2023–January 2024

Creative Writing MFA, University of Guelph / Mentorship with Madeleine Thien, Thesis supervision with Dionne Brand / 2015-2017

Creative writing courses with Carolyn Smart / Queen's University / 2011-2015

Poetry mentorship with Catherine Graham (Aspiring Canadian Poets prize) / 2012

Awards

Longlist: CBC Poetry Prize, 2016

Shortlist: PEN Canada New Voices Award, 2016

Shortlist: The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Prize in Poetry, 2016

Winner: Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest, 2012

Winner: James H. Stitt Prize in Poetry, 2012