About Me

I am a writer and filmmaker dividing my time between Moose Jaw and Regina, Saskatchewan.

As a freelance journalist, my work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across Canada, including such publications as Canadian Geographic and the Globe and Mail. I have travelled across North America working on documentaries that have aired on A&E Biography, History Television and CBC. And my work has sent me to a remote village in China and on a 1,600 kilometre dog sled race called the Yukon Quest. I have interviewed FBI agents in Texas and taken phone calls from celebrities, such as Paul Anka.

To End a Conversation, my first collection of poetry, was featured on CBC and on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. My poetry has also appeared in a number of Canadian journals, including Descant, Grain and The Windsor Review.

The author of the bestselling Saskatchewan Book of Everything, I received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the University of Saskatchewan and was shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award and a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award. In 2011, I was a CTV National Fellow at the Banff World Media Festival. And in 2003, I was awarded the C. Irwin McIntosh Journalism Prize from the School of Journalism at the University of Regina.