Writing
Like most writers, I've put pencil to paper since I was a child: short stories, diaries, school essays, journals, a PhD dissertation, academic papers, sociological studies, and now, creative writing. A long time coming, but welcoming. A place I need to be.
Achievements
What the Heart Remembers When the Brain Forgets -- the first 25,000 words of the manuscript, representing the Final Project for completion of the Creative Writing Program with the University of Toronto SCS, won the Catherine B. Fogarty award, 2025
"Still,"adapted from What the Heart Remembers When the Brain Forgets, a memoir-in-progress, Shortlisted -- The Letter Review Nonfiction Contest, 2024
“Arrival,” Winner of the Dreamers Place and Home Contest, 2024; Honorable Mention – Globe Soup Short Memoir Contest, 2022; Shortlisted – Surrey International Writers’ Conference Contest, 2020; Shortlisted – Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Contest, 2019
“Bravado,” Nominated for a National Magazine Award by the journal, Prairie Fire, 2023; Shortlisted – Surrey International Writers’ Conference Contest, 2019
“Descent into Darkness,” an adapted chapter from a current memoir-in-progress, Contest Winner of the Creative Nonfiction Collective Award, 2018
“To Breathe Again,” recognized as a Notable Essay by Memoir Magazine’s #MeToo contest, 2018
Publications
"Arrival," in Dreamers Creative Writing, Vol. 17, Spring/Summer 2024
“Bravado,” in Prairie Fire, Vol. 44, Winter 2021-22
“Descent into Darkness,” in carte blanche, Vol. 33, 2018
Discourse, Participation and Empowerment: A Study of Child Health at the Community Level in War-Torn Liberia, Ottawa: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Carleton University Press, 2003
“Land Rights and Gender Relations in Areas of Rural Africa: A Question of Power and Discourse," in Social and Legal Studies, Spring/March volume, 1995
“AIDS and the Human Rights of an Isolated Generation,” in The Human Rights Tribune, September 1994
The Future for Women in Development: Voices from the South (editor), Ottawa: North South Institute, 1991
Support
Access Copyright Foundation, Professional Development Grant, 2023
Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant, 2022-2023
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant, 2022-2023
Full scholarship, Emerging Writers’ Intensive, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, 2018