I was interviewed by andrea bennett for CWILA. We talked about PEDAL, Lena Dunham, child sexuality, and where feminism falters. Have a look here!

Holy cow holy cow holy cow. PEDAL is a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, presented by Walrus Magazine! I am so excited to attend the award ceremony in Toronto on May 21st, and so grateful to judge Nick Mount for spotting a small-press novel. Long live new fiction! Congratulations to finalists Sean Michaels, Alix Hawley, Guillaume Morissette and Emma Hooper.

On April 1st at  Anecdotal Evidence–stories about science–I told a story called “Osmanthus Suavis”. It’s about a mysterious tree and my mother’s death. Listen here!

On January 16 2015 I told my story “The Day That Michael Jackson Died” at the fifth anniversary party of Rain City Chronicles. They turned it into a podcast. It’s short and sweet. Enjoy!

Thank you to Russell Books in Victoria and the Salt Spring Island Public Library for hosting fun readings over the weekend. I got to read with Matt Rader, Lee Henderson and Alix Hawley, who all have books you should read. Everyone should just be reading all the time, obviously.

INCITE READING SERIES: Tonight I joined Fred Stinson and Kim Echlin for a reading and panel discussion at the Vancouver Public Library for the Incite Reading Series, hosted by Vancouver Writers Festival. I spoke of my mother, who recently passed away due to cancer and Alzheimer’s, and I read a passage that reminds me of her.

Dina Del Bucchia and Daniel Zomparelli interviewed me for their CanLit podcast, Can’t Lit. We had fun!

I was lucky enough to be interviewed by a fantastic writer, Doretta Lau, about my novel PEDAL. We talked about anger, Alzheimer’s and the long term effects of abuse. Check it out on Medium.

At the fifth anniversary of Rain City Chronicles, I told a story about the day that Michael Jackson died. It was a blast. Vancouver is awesome!

I’m thrilled with the smart and thoughtful review from Stacey May Fowles of The Globe and Mail. “Pedal is the sort of valuable book that ignites debate, but doesn’t conclude it. Beyond anything, the novel wisely asserts that sexual abuse and trauma are not problems as simplistic and easily solved as we want them to be. Until we are able to have the hard conversations about their complexity we will be no closer to preventing their pervasiveness.”  Read the full article here.