Stories & Poems

Published Short Stories and Creative Nonfiction

“From Soldiers’ Two: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Intercontinental Silver. The Muse. 14, McMaster University, https://issuu.com/themuse_magazine/docs/issue_14_winter_2022, Issuu, 12 Feb. 2022: 30-31. Accessed 11 Sept. 2022.

“’De-Boning the Fish: Indexing Routledge’s Teaching Creative Writing in Asia as Abecedarian Memoir.”  New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing [a refereed Routledge journal]. 17 Mar. 2023. Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2023.2187066.

“The Professors’ Paradox: Improving Education by Refusing To Teach. Opinion: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 March 2022.

“Tar Sands and Genocide.” The Brooklyn Rail. March 2020. 10-12. Online at: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/03/field-notes/Tar-Sands-and-Genocide

“Hardness Scales [an Excerpt from the #Cli-fi Novel-in-Progress Our Sands].” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment [Oxford University Press]. In press.
“Project Cauldron.” Sinking City. 3 (Fall 2017).
“Scraping off the Velvet.” The Fiddlehead. 210.1 (January 2017): 72-82.
“Letters to Her Dead.” Prairie Fire. 28.4 (January 2008): 74-79. Print.
“The Organic Milk Rapist.” ’05: Best Canadian Stories. Ed. Douglas Glover. Ottawa: Oberon, 2005. 66-79.
“Cedar Gravities.” Filling Station. 33 (Summer 2005): 43. Print.
“Callus the Pipe.” The Windsor Review. 37.1 (Spring 2004): 105-06. Print.
“Kwump, Kwump, Kwump.” The New Quarterly. 84 (Fall 2002): 142-51. Print.
“The Body Machine.” The Windsor Review. 35.2 (2002):  91-98. Rpt. in QWERTY 10.1 (2006): 11-16. Print.
“Apples That Don’t Want to Get Eaten.” broken pencil 16.2 (2001): 78-80. Print.
“A Peg and One Fin.” The Fiddlehead 210 (Winter 2001): 60-79. Print.
“A Sharp Tooth in the Fur.” The Danforth Review. Web. Jan. 2001.
“Profanity Issues, —S.” PRISM International 37.3 (1999): 56-72. Print.
“Kermit Is Smut.” Dandelion 25.2 (1999): 170-81. Print.
“Grey Hound.” Zygote 6.3 (Fall 1999): 22-23. Print.
“Tomorrow’s Soldier.” Exile 22.2 (1999): 37-52. Print.
“Kermit Is Smut.” Coming Attractions ’98. Ed. Maggie Helwig. Ottawa: Oberon, 1999. 113-127 (Rpt.). Print.
“Sitting Up.” Coming Attractions ‘98. Ed. Maggie Helwig. Ottawa: Oberon, 1999. 96-112 (Rpt.). Print.
“To Take a Man on a Hill.” Coming Attractions ‘98. Ed. Maggie Helwig. Ottawa: Oberon, 1999. 128-143. Print.
“Hand, Please.” Blood & Aphorisms 20.3 (Autumn 1995): 11. Print.
“Part of Your Own Bones.” TickleAce 30 (Fall/Winter 1995): 124-28. Print.

Published Poems

“Angkor Wat.” Prairie Fire [as Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award winner]. (Summer 2021): 45.2: 45.

“Plastic Water Bottles” and “Trip Advisor.” Southeast Asian Review of English. 56.1 (July 2019): 116-17.

“The Rothko Chapel.” The Ekphrastic Review. 10 Feb. 2019.

“The Extinction.” Canadian Ginger. Fernie, BC: Oolichan, 2016. In press.
“Not Your Parents’ PC.” Event. 44.2 (Fall 2015): 46. Print.
“His Wreck, His Wake.” 50+ Poems for Gordon Lightfoot. Orillia, ON: Old Brewery Bay P, 2014: 62. Print.
“Folksonomy.” The Fiddlehead. 263 (Spring 2015): 78. Print.
“A Home of One’s Own. ” The Fiddlehead. 263 (Spring 2015): 79. Print.
“Ugly Underwear.” Prairie Fire. 36.1 (Spring 2015): 53. Print.
“Search String.” Calliope. 2.3. (March 2015): 18. Print.

“Condoms.” ARC. 74. (Summer 2014): 42. Print.
“Thong.” ARC.
“Daddy.” The Malahat Review. 185. (Winter 2013): 44. Print.
“Mommy.” The Malahat Review. 185. (Winter 2013): 43. Print.
“Plenty of Lava.” The Fiddlehead. 255. (Spring 2013): 84. Print.
“Sex: the Selfish Gene, the XX, and a Bottle of Shiraz,” “Country Dog,” “Water or Air.” Detours: An Anthology of Poets from Windsor and Essex County. Eds. Susan Holbrook and Dawn Kresan. Kingsville, ON: Palimpsest Press, 2013. 31-32; 60-61; 82-83.
“Signed Inheritance.” A Crystal Through Which Love Passes: Glosas for P.K. Page. Ed. Jesse Ferguson. Ottawa: Buschek Books, 2013. 70-7. Print.
“Bicycle.” The Fiddlehead. 250. (Winter 2012): 59-60. Print.
“Sex: the Selfish Gene, the XX, and a Bottle of Shiraz.” Descant. 155 (Winter 2011): 60-62. Print.
“History.” Descant. 155 (Winter 2011): 60-62. Print.
“The Softer Fossils at Joggins.” The Fiddlehead. 247. (Spring 2011): 50-51. Print.
“The Selfish Gene(s).” ARC. 65. (Winter 2011): 73. Print.
“Over Under Over.” All Rights Reserved. 1 (Winter 2010): 25. Print.
“Spiral Jetty,” “Privileged Young Men Who Hate Creativity,” “Boss Point Grindstones,” “The Cottage,” “The God Delusion,” “The Corrections.” Numéro Cinq. Web. 19 Dec. 2010.
“Fossils II: Take a Chance on We.” The Nashwaak Review. 24/25.1 (Summer/Fall 2010): 442-43. Print.
“Malthus’s ‘Essay on the Principle of Population.’” Exile. 34.1 (Summer 2010): 82-84. Print.
“Charles Darwin.” Exile. (Summer 2010): 85-86. Print.
“Seed  Catalogue.” Exile. (Summer 2010): 86-88. Print.
“Fog (Subtraction by Addition).” The New Quarterly. 115 (Summer 2010): 75. Print.
“Country Dog.” The Wascana Review. 42.1. (Summer 2010): 57-58. Web. 6 Aug 2010. Rpt. Véhicule Press Blog. “Sunday Poem.” 3 Jun. 2012. Web.
“Marry, Not Marry.” Prairie Fire. 31.1 (Spring 2010): 12-13. Print.
“Mary Anning and Some Members.” The Fiddlehead. 241 (Autumn 2009): 89-90. Print.
“Coprolites.” The Toronto Quarterly. 4 (Fall 2009): 33. Print.
“On the Origin of the Origin of Species,” “Pitfalls, Denning.” The Antigonish Review. 157 (Spring 2009): 52-54. Print.
“bombs are over.” The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War. Eds. Mark Higgins, Stephen Pender, Darren Wershler-Henry. Toronto: Three Squares, 2003. 114. Print.
“Emails Enlargement to Your Inbox Now,” “Emails Enlargement to Your Inbox Soon,” “Emails Enlargement to Your Inbox Never.” Kiss Machine. 18 (Fall 2008): 7. Print.
“Summer and Everything.” Paperplates. 3.3 (1999): 17. Print.
“Broken Window Secret,” “Rocks Dry to Popping.” “Night Secret Cottage.” Jones Av. 3.2 (July 1996): 6-9. Print.

Visual Art (Refereed: Juried Shows)

Obvious Losses (aka Teethmarks). Projected Sidewalk Long-Poem. eyelevel gallery, Halifax, NS. 28 Sept.—11 Oct., 2003. 160 slides.

Drama, Staged Readings

“Drift.” Theatre New Brunswick. Brave New Words Workshop, Fredericton, NB: 22 Aug. 1997.
“Drift.” The National Arts Centre. Young Playwrights Search Competition, Ottawa, ON: 29 May, 1996.