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Quick introduction: during the day I am editor-in-chief at Quill & Quire, Canada's book-publishing magazine. For the past couple years, I've also been writing a weekly author profile that appears every Saturday in the Toronto Star. I also write frequently for the newspaper's visual arts section.
Some of my former positions include: books columnist for Metro News across Canada; arts editor for This Magazine and the Halifax alt-weekly, The Coast. For more than five years I edited Visual Arts News, the only magazine dedicated to Atlantic Canadian art, and acted as East Coast arts correspondent for Akimbo.ca. Prior to my journalism career, I was employed as a marketing and communications specialist for various arts organizations and tech companies. This background has become invaluable in my work writing custom content and service journalism.
My freelance writing has appeared in The Globe & Mail, Chatelaine, Where, Fashion, Reader's Digest, Toronto Life, The Walrus, and Canadian Art, among other places. I've received several editorial prizes, including three Atlantic Journalism Awards for arts & entertainment reporting (gold, 2007; silver, 2008, 2009), and was a National Magazine Award nominee. In 2019, my story about the feminist health manual Our Bodies Ourselves for The Walrus was longlisted for an Alan Slaight Prize for Journalism.
In 2019, I taught writing for publication at Centennial College, which was a profound and amazing experience that reinvigorated my love of the written word, thanks to a group of brilliant students.
I take pride in writing accessible stories that speak to the heart of a person or an issue. When I first started in journalism, I thought interviews were scary! Now, nothing delights me more than an engaging, sometimes tough, conversation with a subject.
When not writing, reading, or speaking about books, culture, or women's health issues, I am taking photos, volunteering at local arts organizations, and adding to my vintage clothing and cookbook collections. I am also the owner of a formidable collection of Mr. Peanut and Flying Nun memorabilia.
Quick introduction: during the day I am editor-in-chief at Quill & Quire, Canada's book-publishing magazine. For the past couple years, I've also been writing a weekly author profile that appears every Saturday in the Toronto Star. I also write frequently for the newspaper's visual arts section.
Some of my former positions include: books columnist for Metro News across Canada; arts editor for This Magazine and the Halifax alt-weekly, The Coast. For more than five years I edited Visual Arts News, the only magazine dedicated to Atlantic Canadian art, and acted as East Coast arts correspondent for Akimbo.ca. Prior to my journalism career, I was employed as a marketing and communications specialist for various arts organizations and tech companies. This background has become invaluable in my work writing custom content and service journalism.
My freelance writing has appeared in The Globe & Mail, Chatelaine, Where, Fashion, Reader's Digest, Toronto Life, The Walrus, and Canadian Art, among other places. I've received several editorial prizes, including three Atlantic Journalism Awards for arts & entertainment reporting (gold, 2007; silver, 2008, 2009), and was a National Magazine Award nominee. In 2019, my story about the feminist health manual Our Bodies Ourselves for The Walrus was longlisted for an Alan Slaight Prize for Journalism.
In 2019, I taught writing for publication at Centennial College, which was a profound and amazing experience that reinvigorated my love of the written word, thanks to a group of brilliant students.
I take pride in writing accessible stories that speak to the heart of a person or an issue. When I first started in journalism, I thought interviews were scary! Now, nothing delights me more than an engaging, sometimes tough, conversation with a subject.
When not writing, reading, or speaking about books, culture, or women's health issues, I am taking photos, volunteering at local arts organizations, and adding to my vintage clothing and cookbook collections. I am also the owner of a formidable collection of Mr. Peanut and Flying Nun memorabilia.