Awards

"The Shopkeeper's Remedy" selected as a finalist for the Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction | 2024
Writer's Trust of Canada Rising Star, Selected by Shani Mootoo | 2023
MARTY Award for Established Literary Writer | 2023
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award | 2023
“Can we locate souls in space? The pairing problem, solved” (co-written with Liam Burke) shortlisted for the Puritan’s Austin Clarke Award for Poetry | 2022
Winner of University of Waterloo Graduate Creative Writing Award | 2022
”Letter to my great-grandchild” shortlisted for CV2 Foster Poetry Prize | 2021
Winner of University of Waterloo Graduate Creative Writing Award | 2021
Honourable mention for George Johnston Poetry Prize | 2020
Emerging Writer Award from Room | 2019
“To ride an art horse” longlisted for CBC Poetry Prize | 2019
“Things I have learned from laundry” won Lilian I. Found Award for Poetry | 2019
Shortlisted, Judith Khan Memorial Award | 2019
“Pipe Rose” awarded second place in George Johnston Poetry Prize | 2018

Publications

Books

Heliotropia (Brick Books, 2024)
Women Wide Awake (Mawenzi House Publishers, 2023, co-authored with Nimra Bandukwala)
MONUMENT (Brick Books, 2022)

Chapbooks

encounter (Rahila's Ghost Press, 2022, co-authored with Nimra Bandukwala)
Holy Disorder of Being (Gap Riot Press, 2022, co-authored with VII)
Orbital Cultivation (Collusion Books, 2021, co-authored with Liam Burke)
Towers (Collusion Books, 2021, co-authored with VII)
Sprawl | the time it took us to forget (Collusion Books, 2020, co-authored with Conyer Clayton)
Paper Doll (Anstruther Press, 2019)
Pipe Rose (battleaxe press, 2018)

Print Publications

My work has appeared in journals across Canada and internationally, including Best Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Canadian Notes and Queries, Room, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The Ex-Puritan, THIS, Augur, Briarpatch, Contemporary Verse 2, and more. 

Read select poems below:

• Border poem (with Sanna Wani) in Briarpatch: "Thank God we have metaphors; how else could our energies intertwine?"
  
• An AI Takes in a Thousand Cat Videos in PEACH: "We refuse intelligence, instead carrying only the knowledge of a thousand cat videos"
  
• Walking through rainstorms (to a tryst) in The Ex-Puritan: "I hold you the way sandalwood embers ash onto a white desk after the air has cradled burning incense for nine sunrises"
  

Community Involvements

Work & Volunteer

​Ongoing

​Columnist, Open Book
Digital Content Editor, Canthius
Poetry Reader, long con magazine

Past

​Coordinating Editor, Arc Poetry Magazine
Editorial Board Member, Canthius
Poetry Reader, Arc Poetry Magazine
Volunteer, VERSefest
Editorial Board Member, In/Words Magazine & Press

Reviews

I regularly write reviews for The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The Temz Review, Room, and more.

​Read a selection of reviews below:

• Review of Jhani Randhawa's Time Regime in Plenitude
• ​Review of Bahar Orang's Where Things Touch and Yusuf Saadi's Pluviophile in The Malahat Review
• Review of Kaie Kellough's Magnetic Equator in The Ex-Puritan

Interviews

I have conducted regular interviews with writers for Canthius and The Ottawa International Writers Festival Podcast, and one-off interviews for The Ex-Puritan, Arc Poetry Magazine, ​and more.

​Read and listen to a selection of interviews below. 

• Interviews on Canthius with T.Liem, Karen Schindler, Isabella Wang, Selina Boan, and more
• Interview with Anuja Varghese for the Ottawa International Writers Festival podcast
• Interview with Nisha Patel in The Ex-Puritan

Performances and Workshops

I have toured in cities across Canada at festivals and bookstores including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, Victoria, Windsor, Kingston, and more. 

I have conducted workshops and appeared in panel discussions for audiences of all ages, including high school, university, and literary audiences. 

I have moderated panels for organizations including Word on the Street, Versefest, and more. 

If you are interested in having me perform at your reading series, contact me through the form on my website.