Hi!

a little about me:

I spent my childhood with my nose in a book. I remember reading at picnics, in the car, late at night until I had a headache.

In my early twenties, my aunt, a librarian, messaged to say our local library was selling off loads of their old books. In the boxes of books I acquired, I discovered my name on every check-out card from years before.

As an adult, my love for stories hasn’t waned, but now I write them too.

I have a master’s in labour studies from McMaster University and a bachelor’s in photojournalism and writing from Western Kentucky University. During my adulting hours, I’m a professor of photography/design and run a media company with my husband. When I’m not writing or working, you can find me drinking wine while chasing after my sassy son or equally sassy chickens.

randoms:

team Petah.

em dash overuser.

introvert.

I grew up in Kentucky and live in Canada. In between the two, I’ve lived in Indiana, Michigan, Hawaii, South Africa, Washington D.C., Texas, and Panama.

If I were stuck on a deserted island and could only watch one show for the rest of my life…

I honestly don’t know if I’d choose
The Office or Parks and Rec.

It’s the question that won’t go away.

*some* of my favourite books:

Beartown/Us Against You – Fredrick Backman

Tell the Wolves I’m Home – Carol Rifka Brunt

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

The Push – Ashley Audrain

All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr

Tiny Beautiful Things – Cheryl Strayed

Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas

Educated – Tara Westover

The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

A Complicated Kindness – Miriam Toews

A Woman Is No Man – Etaf Rum

The Office of Historical Corrections – Danielle Evans

a *few* more of my fave reads:

Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

I’ll Give You The Sun – Jandy Nelson

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

The Paris Wife – Paula Mclain

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

Commonwealth – Ann Patchett

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini 

Valentine – Elizabeth Wetmore

Anything Is Possible – Elizabeth Strout

The Clay Girl – Heather Tucker