Selected Writing

Longform features

Family farmers in B.C. were already struggling. Then Trump started a trade war, The Narwhal

The future of B.C. wine has never been more uncertain, The Narwhal

Where There’s Smoke, Maisonneuve (Selected for Longreads’ “Top 5 Longreads of the Week”)

Saving Finn Slough, Maisonneuve (Nominated for Best Emerging Writer, 2022 National Magazine Awards)

Essays

For Children of Diasporas, Home is Hard to Find, The Tyee

An elegy for Vancouver summer, Zócalo (Selected for Zócalo’s favourite essays of 2024)

Walking at the end of the world, Canadian Geographic

‘We Owe Each Other Our Bodies’: Wise Words for a Pandemic, The Tyee

On learning Portuguese, The Globe and Mail

Profiles & interviews

Basia Bulat sings the western chorus frog’s praises, The Narwhal

Into the Mystic: Jessica Hundley Explores the Beauty of the Esoteric, MONTECRISTO

On Growing Up Mixed-Race, and Where We’re Really From, The Tyee

Our new ‘century of fire’: author John Vaillant on his new book Fire Weather, Canadian Geographic

Buffy Sainte-Marie Carries On, POV Magazine

Ed Yong Explained the Plague Expertly. Now, ‘Magical’ Animals, The Tyee

Vivek Shraya’s ‘Anti-Success’ Retrospective, The Tyee

‘Night Raiders’ Broaches Residential School Trauma through Dystopic Sci-Fi, The Tyee

Doc Offers a Glimpse of Hope in Kainai (Blood) Nation’s Overdose Crisis, The Tyee

‘So Much Innovation is Driven by Disabled People’, The Tyee

Who We’re Watching: Joële Walinga, cléo journal

Reporting

A future without B.C. apples, The Narwhal

Inflation Hits Those on Disability Assistance Hard: ‘Mostly, It’s Heartbreaking’, The Tyee

Massive Klondike collection donated to UBC, The Globe and Mail

Indigenous groups get help to repatriate artifacts, The Globe and Mail

Canadian Artists Testify on the Dire Need for Basic Income, The Tyee

For Many on Assistance, COVID Benefit Boost Means ‘I Don’t Have to Eat Just Brown Rice and Beans’, The Tyee

Will B.C.’s Culture Sector Survive the Pandemic?, The Tyee

Reviews & criticism

Painter Firelei Báez Confronts the Pervasive Impact of Colonialism Through Immersive Artworks at the Vancouver Art Gallery, MONTECRISTO

Anyox and Geographies of Solitude: documenting destruction and preserving place in contemporary landscape film, ReIssue

Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence Review – Ali Kazimi’s Doc Indicts Settler Culture, POV Magazine

The Lake/nx̌aʔx̌aʔitkʷ Review: Canadian Opera Doc May Have Missed a Note, POV Magazine

Making the Case for Universal Basic Income, The Tyee

‘Mudflat Dreaming’ Honours Two Communities Fighting for Rights and Respect, The Tyee

Documenting the ‘Stateless’, The Tyee

Dip Into These Specimens of the Sea, The Tyee

Elegant, Controversial, Romantic: The Proposal is a Documentary About Art With Many Twists In Its Tale, MONTECRISTO