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Quick introduction: during the day I am deputy editor at Inuit Art Quarterly, which, in 2021, won best arts & culture magazine and the Grand Prix award — the highest editorial honour in Canada – at the National Magazine Awards. I am also a regular contributor to the Toronto Star's books and visual arts pages.
Previously, I was editor-in-chief at Quill & Quire, Canada's book-publishing magazine. Some of my former positions also 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 represented the East Coast for Akimbo.ca. Prior to my journalism career, I was employed as a marketing and communications specialist for various arts organizations and tech companies.
My freelance writing has appeared in Catapult, The Globe & Mail, Macleans, 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 started teaching writing and editing for publication at Centennial College, which is a profound and amazing experience that reinvigorated my love of the written word, thanks to my brilliant students.
I take pride in writing accessible stories that speak to the heart of a person or an issue. When not writing, reading, or speaking about books, culture, or women's health issues, I am taking photos, volunteering at local arts organizations, reading Nancy comics and adding to my vintage clothing and cookbook collections. I am also the owner of a formidable collection of Mr. Peanut memorabilia.
Quick introduction: during the day I am deputy editor at Inuit Art Quarterly, which, in 2021, won best arts & culture magazine and the Grand Prix award — the highest editorial honour in Canada – at the National Magazine Awards. I am also a regular contributor to the Toronto Star's books and visual arts pages.
Previously, I was editor-in-chief at Quill & Quire, Canada's book-publishing magazine. Some of my former positions also 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 represented the East Coast for Akimbo.ca. Prior to my journalism career, I was employed as a marketing and communications specialist for various arts organizations and tech companies.
My freelance writing has appeared in Catapult, The Globe & Mail, Macleans, 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 started teaching writing and editing for publication at Centennial College, which is a profound and amazing experience that reinvigorated my love of the written word, thanks to my brilliant students.
I take pride in writing accessible stories that speak to the heart of a person or an issue. When not writing, reading, or speaking about books, culture, or women's health issues, I am taking photos, volunteering at local arts organizations, reading Nancy comics and adding to my vintage clothing and cookbook collections. I am also the owner of a formidable collection of Mr. Peanut memorabilia.