A few highlights:

• Lots of short stories published, and a handful of essays and poems

• Winner of the PEN International New Voices Award and RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award

• MFA from New York University in Creative Writing

• A novel, named Cala, set in the Outer Hebrides, published by Head of Zeus (2019)

• A residency at the Banff Centre

• Multiple competitive arts council grants

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The last five books I read:

• Marguerite Abouet, Aya de Yopougon (all the volumes... love this series!)

• Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

• Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

• Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems

• Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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The last five albums I listened to while writing:

• Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden

• Madlib, Sound Ancestors

• Mary Lattimore, Silver Ladders

• Floating Points, Pharaoh Saunders & The London Symphony Orchestra, Promises

• G. S. Schray, The Changing Account 

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Current tea rotation: orange pekoe, chamomile, peppermint, jasmine green