Selected Writing
Features & essays
An elegy for Vancouver summer, Zócalo (Selected for Zócalo’s favourite essays of 2024)
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
Walking at the end of the world, Canadian Geographic
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)
‘We Owe Each Other Our Bodies’: Wise Words for a Pandemic, The Tyee
On learning Portuguese, The Globe and Mail
Profiles & interviews
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
‘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
Reviews & criticism
For Children of Diasporas, Home is Hard to Find, The Tyee
The Lake/nx̌aʔx̌aʔitkʷ review: Canadian opera doc may have missed a note, POV Magazine
Making the Case for Universal Basic Income, The Tyee
Documenting the ‘Stateless’, The Tyee
Elegant, Controversial, Romantic: The Proposal is a Documentary about Art with Many Twists in its Tale, MONTECRISTO