Awards

“"In Mixed Girl as Cosmogonic Myth, a daughter seeks, and speaks to, her disappearing mother. The speaker never addresses the audience directly, but what we overhear is both astonishing and tender," the jury said in a statement.

"The poet uses syntax the way composers arrange motifs in a symphony. The effect is otherworldly, but grounded in our world, like an alien intelligence translated into English.

Fragile and innocent, but with an abundant and underlying strength, this poem resonates on a deeply emotional level, and we are eager to read more from this poet, and to see what this energetic work might spark in other writers, as well.”

—  2025 CBC Poetry Prize jury (Carol Rose GoldenEagle, Paul Vermeersch, and Britta B.)

“‘hybridity as a phantom body’ holds in exquisite suspension both language and land, body and cosmos. The poem’s inquiries set us off into an associative chain of liquid and embodied imagery: ‘the moon comes running by the lake, faceless,’ ‘a mouth swimming inside a stomach,’ and ‘our bones are old stars … before the oceans were lanced from the sky.’ I admire the balance this fluid poem strikes between the tangible and the philosophical. It has true staying power.”

— The Ex-Puritan's Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence for Poetry 2024 judge (Liz Howard)

RECIPIENT OF

Indigenous Voices Award in the Unpublished Poetry Category 2024