I'm a writer and literary agent based in Toronto. 

I work at CookeMcDermid where I represent both emerging and acclaimed writers. Before CMD, I held roles at Transatlantic Agency in the fall of 2019 as an Associate Agent, Editorial Agent, Agent Assistant, Receivables Clerk, and Contracts Administrator. My mandate is here, and writers can send their queries here.

My first book, a memoir called Half-Bads in White Regalia, came out through Penguin Canada’s Hamish Hamilton imprint in 2022 and will come out with And Other Stories in the UK in 2026. It was an instant national bestseller in Canada, won the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose, made the shortlist for the 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and made the longlist for the 2023 Toronto Book Award, the 2023 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and Canada Reads 2023. It was named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail and CBC Books. Excerpts of Half-Bads in White Regalia received the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Unpublished Prose.

I am the 2025-2026 Writer-in-Residence for the University of Alberta and a 2026 Berton House Writer-in-Residence, and served as the Writer-in-Residence for the 2023 Whistler Writers Festival. I went to the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity for the 2024 Leighton Studio Residency, the 2024 Form and Constraint Residency, and the 2019 Spring Writers Residency.

I judged the 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards, The Fiddlehead's 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, The Ex-Puritan's 2023 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.

I've given talks, facilitated workshops, and advised on programming about writing, agenting, and trade publishing across Canada since 2018.  I am on the Board of Directors for the Toronto International Festival of Authors, and served on the Word on the Street Advisory Committee in 2023.

I received an MA in English in the field of Creative Writing in 2019 and an HBA in Professional Writing and Communication & English (with Distinction) from the University of Toronto in 2017. During the final year of the former, I co-edited Echolocation Magazine, and served as Editor-in-Chief of UTM Mindwaves during the final year of the latter.

I am an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. My mother’s family is from the Manitoba Interlake and my father’s family emigrated to Canada from the Azores in the 1960s.