Publications & Awards

  • “Love Cream Heat” (The Fiddlehead #293, Autumn 2022)
  • “Fixer” (Riddle Fence #40, Spring 2021)
  • “the snare. the arm. the guinea pig. the bottle. the bus. the night.” (PRISM international 59.3, Spring 2021)
  • Winner of the CBC Short Story Prize for “Kids in Kindergarten” (2021)
  • “Zora, in the Whirl” (Grain 48.3, Spring 2021)
  • “Review of Double Dutch by Laura Trunkey” (The Malahat Review 200, Autumn 2017)
  • “Thieves” (Cosmonauts Avenue June/July, 2017)
  • “Wolf-Boy Saturday” (The Humber Literary Review 4.1, 2017)
  • “Porcelain Legs” (anthologized in AlliterAsian: Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015)
  • Awarded the Frelyn Memorial Endowment ($2,500) for the Banff Centre Writing Studio (2015)
  • “The Whole Animal” (Room 38.3, 2015)
  • “Review of Jane and the Whales by Andrea Routley” (The Malahat Review 187, 2014)
  • “Porcelain Legs” (Ricepaper 18.4, 2014)
  • Belinda’s Rings: A Novel (NeWest Press, 2013)
  • Finalist (top 11) for the Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition (2011)
  • “Communication As Commodification: Video Technology and the Gendered Gaze.” The Blackwell Handbook of Gender, Sexualities, and the Media. Co-Authored by Heather Molyneaux, and Hélène Fournier. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) 
  • “Old Wives” (Grain 38.3, 2011)
  • “Review of Letters to Omar by Rachel Wyatt” (The Malahat Review 174, 2011)
  • “Writing Back to the Self: Corinna Chong in Conversation with Eve Joseph” (The Malahat Review, Feb. 2011)
  • “Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart” in The New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Ed. Tony Tremblay (St. Thomas University, 2011) 
  • “Sharon Pollock” in The New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Ed. Tony Tremblay (St. Thomas University, 2011) 
  • Information and Communication Technologies to Support Health and Wellness in Remote and Rural First Nations Communities: Literature Review. Co-Authored by S. O’Donnell, H. Molyneaux, E. Gorman, M. Milliken, K. Gibson, P. Oakley, and J. Maitland. (National Research Council, 2010)
  • “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Remote and Rural First Nations Communities: An Overview.” Co-Authored by S. O’Donnell, M. Milliken, and B. Walmark. (Presented at the Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference (CCA 2010) Montreal, June 1-3, 2010)
  • Awarded Joseph-Armand Bombardier research grant ($17,500) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for outstanding academic performance and promising creative work in the field of mixed race studies (2009-2010)
  • “Mismatched Spoons” (Echolocation 8, 2009; revised version re-published online 2014)
  • “Blu’s Barb (excerpt)” (NōD Magazine 8, 2008)
  • Awarded the Grant MacEwan Young Writer's Scholarship ($2,500) for "The Pig That Warms the Ocean" (2007)

Editorial Initiatives

  • Director – ryga (Kelowna, BC, 2020-present)
  • Co-Editor and Visual Editor/Designer – Ryga: A Journal of Provocations (Kelowna, BC, 2011-2019) ​
  • Editorial Board Member – The Claremont Review (Victoria, BC, 2010)
  • Community Volunteer – The Malahat Review (Victoria, BC, 2010)
  • Creative Arts Editor – Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal (Halifax, NS, 2009-2011) 
  • Managing Editor – Qwerty (Fredericton, NB, 2009-2010)
  • Editorial Board Member – The Fiddlehead (Fredericton, NB, 2009-2010) 
  • Chief Designer and Editor – Merge: BFA Catalogue (Nickle Arts Museum) (Calgary, AB, 2007)
  • Chief Designer and Editor – Exposure, Cards and Clippers, Inky Circus (Calgary, AB, 2005-2007)

Juries & Panels

  • Contest Judge for the Okanagan Short Story Contest – University of British Columbia (Okanagan) and Central Okanagan Foundation (2023)
  • Contest Judge for the John Lent Poetry Prose Award – Kalamalka Press (2022)
  • Assessment Panelist for Creative Writing Scholarships – BC Arts Council (2020)
  • Juror for Project Assistance: Arts Periodicals/Literary Projects – BC Arts Council (2020)
  • Peer Assessor for Literary Arts Advisory Committee – BC Arts Council (2019)
  • Juror – The Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature (Kelowna, BC, 2011-2013)

Workshops

  • Narrative Structure: The Bones of a Great Story – Wine Country Writers' Festival (Penticton, BC, September 2022)
  • Narrative Structure: The Bones of a Great Story – Words Alive Kamloops Writers' Festival (Kamloops, BC, October 2018)
  • Making a Scene: Structure and Transitions in Short Stories – Spoke Literary Festival (Vernon, BC, August 2017)
  • Debunking the Myths Surrounding Writers (co-led with Hannah Calder) – Woodhaven Summer Writing Intensive (Kelowna, BC, July 2015)
  • Conquering the Blank Page – literASIAN festival of Asian Canadian Writing (Vancouver, BC, October 2014)
  • Where Do You Get Your Ideas? – Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC, April 2014)
  • Dialogue: Principles and Strategies – Club Penguin, Disney Interactive (Kelowna, BC, March 2014)
  • Narrative: Strategies for Storytelling – Club Penguin, Disney Interactive (Kelowna, BC, June 2013)