Writer & visual artist
St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador
Looking for my design work? I specialize in professional websites for artists and small organizations.
Album Rock:
Looking back through the lens of Paul-Émile Miot
My first book, Album Rock, is now available from Boulder Publications!
“Part art history, part road trip, and part detective story, Album Rock began when Matthew Hollett stumbled across an intriguing photograph from the 1850s on the website of the Corner Brook Museum and Archives. … A lively and insightful work of creative nonfiction and poetry, Album Rock touches on the history of photography in Newfoundland, Miot’s travels around the French Shore, and the power of naming in shaping our perceptions of a place. It’s also a celebration of curiosity and the joy of delving into the mystery of a peculiar photograph.”
Recent News
- Wrote about making Album Rock for Newfoundland Quarterly (previous NQ articles).
- Designed a website for The Garbage Poems, Anna Swanson's wonderful interactive poetry project.
- Two art catalogue essays, for Vivian Ross-Smith and Jane Walker’s islandness, and Emily Pittman’s Unsettled.
- I have work in Breakwater’s Best Kind creative nonfiction anthology, and also in What’s Written in the Ladies.
- The Fiddlehead interviewed me about the 2018 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem.
- Awarded the 2018 Cox & Palmer SPARKS Creative Writing Award and Landfall Trust Residency.
- My poetry collection, Optic Nerve, won the 2017 NLCU Fresh Fish Award.
- Won the 2017 Prairie Fire Short Fiction Contest.
- In 2017 April White and I wrote some songs and recorded an album as Topiary. More here!
- Interview with The Malahat Review about an essay that won the 2017 Open Season Award for creative nonfiction.
- Interview with PRISM International about Comfort Zone, published in Fall 2016.
