I am a settler writer and researcher living in the beautiful northern city of Sǫ̀mba K’è (Yellowknife, NT). This is Akaitcho Territory (Treaty 8), the homeland of the Yellowknives Dene and North Slave Métis.

I have a PhD in History from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Education from Trent University. I am also a graduate of The Writer’s Studio, a creative writing program at Simon Fraser University. 

My first book, a monograph about the social and spatial politics of canoeing in late-nineteenth-century North America, was published with the University of Toronto Press (UTP) in 2019. In addition to academic journals and edited collections, my non-fiction writing on recreation, culture, and the environment has appeared in Up Here, Edge YK, and Barista, and on the NiCHE.org, ActiveHistory.ca, and spacing.ca. I am currently working on a novel, entitled Trail’s End, set in early-1980s Yellowknife.

Through Dunkin Creative, I provide research, writing, and communications services. Please contact me if you have a project that could benefit from my knowledge or skills.

I am a research associate at Aurora College and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta.