I have a PhD in English Language and Literature, granted by Queen’s University in 2016, and I specialize in modern and American literature while focusing primarily on genre fiction. I am most interested in how authors write and how readers read, with an emphasis on the dynamics between the two.  In my academic and scholarly work, I trace the strategies and methods of narrative structure and composition, as well as style, drawing connections between narrative and our social culture and popular imagination.

I write creative fiction that explores the ways in which magic is sewn into the seams of our world, whether that magic peeks through the cracks of our everyday lives or opens the floodgates to fantastic worlds. I believe that good fiction comes from strong worldbuilding, creating a sense of how characters and people inhabit a place and interact with its various complexities and elements—that is, the texture of the world that surrounds them.