Appearances

 

Upcoming Events

September 24, 2025: Crohnic Book Launch, Magpie Books, Edmonton, AB (with Cody Caetano and Abby Lacelle)

September 26, 2025: Writer-in-Residence Welcome and Dual Book Launch for Beaver Hills Forever and Crohnic, Centre for Literatures in Canada, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (with Cody Caetano and Conor Kerr)

October 21, 2025: No Depression in Heaven, Beaver Hills Forever, and Crohnic Triple Book Launch, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, AB (with ryan fitzpatrick and Conor Kerr)

October 27, 2025: Crohnic Book Launch, Pulp Books, Montreal, QC

October 29, 2025: Arsenal Pulp Press Poetry Launch, Type Books, Toronto, ON (with Conor Kerr, Claire Foster, and Jeremy Elder)

October 31, 2025: Ajar Book Launch, Happy Goat Coffee Company, Ottawa, ON (with Margo LaPierre)

Past Events

May 29, 2025: How I Bend Into More Launch, Magpie Books, Edmonton AB (with Tea Gerbeza and Chelsey Campbell)

April 26, 2025: Artist’s Circle: Nourishing Poetic Community, Edmonton Poetry Festival, Edmonton, AB (with Marilyn Dumont, ryan fitzpatrick, Leah Baptiste, and Kelly Shepherd)

November 28, 2024: English and Film Studies Undergraduate Network Author Visit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

October 23, 2024: WRITE 393 Class Visit Reading hosted by Assistant Professor Conor Kerr, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (with ryan fitzpatrick, Nisha Patel, and Matthew James Weigel)

April 29, 2024: The Business of Bookselling, The Festival of Literary Diversity, Brampton, ON [virtual] (with Hilary Atleo, Samita Manhas, Laura Ash, [moderator])

October 13, 2023: STARFest presents Jessica Johns, St. Albert Readers Festival, St. Albert, AB (moderator)

October 14, 2022: Swollening Film Screening, LitFest: Canada’s Original Nonfiction Festival, Edmonton, AB (with Tatiana Zagorac, Chelsey Campbell, and Kyle Terrence)

October 2, 2022: The O’Neill Reads Extravaganza!!!, Wordfest, Calgary, AB (with Heather O’Neill, Arizona O’Neill, Neil Smith, and Georgia Toews)

July 17, 2022: Cover to Cover, Saskatchewan Festival of Words, Moose Jaw, SK (with Kai Cheng Thom, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Wayne Simpson, moderated by Amanda Leduc)

July 16, 2022: Saskatchewan Festival of Words, Moose Jaw, SK (with Robert Currie)

July 15, 2022: Saskatchewan Festival of Words, Moose Jaw, SK (with Kai Cheng Thom and Kevin Wesaquate)

July 15, 2022: Saskatchewan Festival of Words, Moose Jaw, SK (with Daniel Scott Tysdal)

April 29, 2022: Lost Launch #1, Edmonton Poetry Festival, Edmonton, AB (with Lisa Martin)

April 26, 2022: Poetry Month: Can’t Lit Live, Vancouver, BC [virtual] (with Jónína Kirton and Tolu Oloruntoba, moderated by Dina Del Bucchia and Jen Sookfong Lee)

April 6, 2022: Incite, Vancouver Writers Festival, Vancouver, BC [virtual] (with Shani Mootoo and Tolu Oloruntoba, moderated by Shazia Hafiz Ramji)

February 27, 2022: Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, Vancouver, BC [virtual] (with Shashi Bhat, Zoe Whittall, Troy Sebastian, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Naben Ruthnum)

October 22, 2021: Words from the Wise: Poetry from Community Leaders, LitFest: Canada’s Original Nonfiction Festival, Edmonton, AB (with Rayanne Haines, moderated by Shima Robinson)

June 17, 2021: Values-Driven Bookselling, during and after the Pandemic, Book Summit 2021, Toronto, ON [virtual] (with Emily Dundas-Oke and Itah Sadu, moderated by Kyrell Grant)

June 18, 2019: Evolving Book Coverage, Book Summit 2019, Toronto, ON (with Randy Boyagoda, Deborah Dundas, and Parul Sehgal, moderated by Sue Carter)

June 8, 2019: A Place More Hospitable Calgary Launch, Shelf Life Books, Calgary, AB (with Matthew Stepanic and Kaitlyn Purcell)

May 15, 2019: A Place More Hospitable Edmonton Launch, The Almanac, Edmonton, AB (with CJ Bogle and Lisa Martin)

April 27, 2019: Homebody, Edmonton Poetry Festival, Edmonton, AB (with Arleen Paré, Matthew Stepanic, and Natalie Wee)

November 8, 2018: PRISM: Dreams Edmonton Launch, The Nook Café, Edmonton, AB (with Jessica Johns, Austen Lee, Timiro Mohamed, NASRA, and Matthew Stepanic)

October 21, 2018: LitFest Presents Billy-Ray Belcourt: This Wound is a World, LitFest Alberta, Edmonton, AB (moderator)