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Ekphrastic Writers After My Visual Art
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Editor, Anthologies
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Contributor, Anthologies
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Al-Iftinan (Enchantment), Dr Jaber Alahmari (Khatout and Zilal Publishing House, 2025)
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Education:
Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism, Ryerson University
Founder and Editor: The Ekphrastic Review: a journal of literature inspired by visual art (since 2015)
The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry (since 2024)
Column: Eat. Play. Rove. at Good Food Revolution (now closed)
Wine and Art. Good Food Revolution (now closed)
The Big Picture (art essays)
Literary Juries/Judge:
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Ekphrastic Contest (Summer 2024)
Tom Park Poetry Prize, Illinois, 2020
Prose Poetry, Seven Hills Literary and Penumbra Poetry Competition, Tallahassee Writers Association (TWA), Florida, 2026
Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize 2026
Writing Nominations and Awards
8 Pushcart Prize nominations
9 Best of the Net nominations
7 Best American Food Writing nominations
4 Best Small Fictions nominations
4 Best Microfiction nominations
1 Eric Hoffer Small Press Book Award nomination
2 Wigleaf Longlist
1 Lascaux Review Shortlist
Best Microfiction 2026, "Marguerites, published in and nominated by Hot Flash Literary
First place, "The Neon Raven," flash fiction, MacQueen's Quinterly contest, October 2020
Best Small Fictions 2023, "The Triaminic Man," published in and nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best Small Fictions 2024, "The Oomancer," published in and nominated by Litro Magazine
Ontario Arts Council Grant, 2022, for a collection of ekphrastic stories that turned into The Neon Rosary and The Rope Artist.
Ontario Arts Council Grant, 2024, for a collection of ekphrastic stories on the experience of illness, Disgust (Cyberwit Books, 2025.)
Online or Digital Publications
36 Views of Ononta'kahrhon, 50 Give or Take, Airgonaut, Art Nectar, ArtAscent, A Quiet Courage, A Story in 100 Words, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Bending Genres, Axon (Australia), Backwards Trajectory, Bending Genres, Bird Seed, Black Coffee Review, Black Napkin Press, Blacktop Passages, Blood and Honey, Blue Pepper, Book Slut, The Breath, Brick Book Reviews, Bright Flash Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Broken City Magazine, Cabinet of Heed, Cahoots Magazine, Canada Free Press, Canoe.ca, Cargo Literary, City River Tree, Cleaver Magazine, Club Plum, Communicators League (Nigeria), Cultural Weekly Los Angeles, Dark Winter Lit, Degenerate Literature, The Dillydoun Review, The Disappointed Housewife, Donut Factory, Dropout Literary Review, Eclectica, The Ekphrastic Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Eunoia Review, Everyday Fiction, Everyday Poetry, Fatal Flaw, Feed Magazine, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Friday, Flash Fiction North, Fortnightly Review, Free the Animal, Free Flash Fiction, Ghost Parachute, Good Food Revolution, Gremolata, Gyroscope, Halfway Down the Stairs, Hare's Lip, Heart of Flesh, Hole in the Head Review, HOOD, Hot Flash Literary, Idea Museum, Idea Factory, Indelible (Dubai), Ilanot Review (Israel), Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, Jake, JMWW, Journal of Radical Wonder, KYSO Flash, Land Luck Journal, Last Leaves, Litro, LossLit, Lost Balloon, Lothlorien, MacQueen's Quinterly, the Mantle, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Microfiction Mondays Magazine, the Miramichi Reader, Misfit Magazine, Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, New Flash Fiction Review, New World Writing, Nine Muses Poetry, Open Book Toronto, Out Impact, Pacific Poetry, Paleo Garden, Page and Spine, Patheos, Peacock Journal, Plane Tree Journal, Poetry Canada, Poetry Reviews, the Poet's Haven, Poetry Pacific, Potato Soup Journal, Pound of Flash, Queen of Cups, Red Coral Grotto, Red Eft, Rune Bear Weekly, Rye Whiskey Review, Scapegoat Journal, Six Sentences, Sledgehammer, South Florida Poetry Journal, South Shore Review, Star 82, Sublime Rush Magazine, Taxicab Mag, Thimble, Third Wednesday, Today’s Toronto, Touched By Fire, Trampset, Trouvaille Review, Unbroken Journal, Unlikely Stories, United Church’s Wonder Café, Unreasonable Faith, Uppagus, The Violet Hour, Visitant Lit, Voice and Verse (Hong Kong), Wayward Literature, Wild Word, Women Can Do Anything, Working Ergonomics, Workman Arts Ledger
Print Publications
Academy Magazine, About Such Things, Adbusters, Amber, American Poets and Poetry, Anthology, Aphrodite Gone Berserk, Arachne, The Archer, ArtAscent, Backspace, Bad Monkey, Black Cat 115, Blood and Aphorisms, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Brownstone Review, Calliope, Canadian Woman’s Studies Journal, Caffeine, Canadian Baptist, Candlelight Poetry Journal, Canned Phlegm, the Complete Woman, Compost Newsletter, The Conscience, The Core, Damaged Goods, Decision Magazine, Diviners, Dog Fancy, Donut Factory, Dusk Till Dawn, Dwan, Even the Kitchen Sink, Erbacce, Eye Weekly, Ever Dancing Muse, the Eyeopener, the Fiddlehead, Filling Station, Fledgling, Fox Poetry Box, Geez Magazine, Gotta Write, Grain Magazine, Hecate’s Loom, Hook and Ladder, illiterature: a journal of found poetry, I Love Cats, In Hell’s Belly, Ink Magazine, In Q Magazine, Jones Avenue, Kairos, Labour of Love, Listen Magazine, Listening Eye, Love Never Fails, Maelstrom Journal, Main Street Rag, McClung’s Magazine, Melting Trees Review, Mind Purge, Minus Tides Magazine, Modern Poetry, Muse of Fire, Nada, Niagara Advance, Ninth Wave, Novella, Oh! Magazine, off our backs, Other Voices, the Outreach, the Outrider, Papyrus, the People’s Poet, Phoebe, Poet’s Page, Poetry Motel, Prairie Winds, Procreation, Q-Age, Quarry Magazine, the Quilliad, Quota, Rattle, Red Booth Review, Rhig Magazine, the Ryersonian, Sidewalks, Siren: Toronto’s Lesbian Newspaper, Siren: a Vancouver Arts Journal, Slinky, Spillway, Still Starving, Stovepipe, Stray Branch Journal, Synchroniciti, Syncopated City, Teen Quest, Tight, Time For Rhyme, Transforum, Transition, Twilight Ending, Unbroken, untethered, Urban Graffiti, Venue Magazine, Voice and Verse Poetry (Hong Kong), What a Magazine!, Whatever Vaughan Magazine, White Wall Review, Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Ink, Write On, Writing For Our Lives, Wyrd, X-tra Newspaper, Yet Another Small Magazine, Young Ambassador, Zygote
Nominations
Best Microfiction, "The Rope Artist," nominated by The Ilanot Review
Best Microfiction, "Darker," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Microfiction, "The Bird Man," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Microfiction, "Marguerites," nominated by Hot Flash Literary
Best Small Fictions, "Chickens, Chickens, Everywhere," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Small Fictions, "The Triaminic Man," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly (selected, 2023)
Best Small Fictions, "Clean," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best Small Fictions, "The Oomancer," by Litro (selected, 2024)
Best of the Net, "Angel Ranch," nominated by The Disappointed Housewife
Best of the Net, "Blood," nominated by Litro
Best of the Net, "Fresh Strawberries," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly, finalist
Best of the Net, "August and Everything Before," nominated by Pound of Flash, Kind of a Hurricane Press
Best of the Net, Blue and Gold for Ukraine, artwork, nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best of the Net, Mr. Pig, artwork, nominated by Does It Have Pockets
Best of the Net, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Nighthawk," nominated by Synchronized Chaos
Best of the Net, "Patience, and Other Virtues That I Lack," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "The Divine Leper," nominated by Bright Flash Review
Pushcart Prize, "Promiscuity," nominated by Macqueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "The Paper Dark," nominated by Karen Schauber, editor, The Group of Seven Reimagined (Heritage Books)
Pushcart Prize, "Fresh Strawberries," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "Divorced Eggs," nominated by Last Leaves
Pushcart Prize, "The Archipelago," nominated by Centaur Lit
Pushcart Prize, "Mrs Luzajic as Hebe," nominated by Flash the Court
Pushcart Prize, "The White Rooms," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best American Food Writing, "What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?" nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "A Century or More of Banana Scandals," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Blue Velvet: in Defence of the Blue Veined Cheeses," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Pop Goes the World: the Chewing Gum Story," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Remember the Lemon," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Octopus: Alien on My Plate," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Hooray for Pumpkin Pie," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Eric Hoffer Independent Book Award nomination for The Memory Palace, with coeditor Clare MacQueen
36 Views of Ononta'kahrhon, 50 Give or Take, Airgonaut, Art Nectar, ArtAscent, A Quiet Courage, A Story in 100 Words, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Bending Genres, Axon (Australia), Backwards Trajectory, Bending Genres, Bird Seed, Black Coffee Review, Black Napkin Press, Blacktop Passages, Blood and Honey, Blue Pepper, Book Slut, The Breath, Brick Book Reviews, Bright Flash Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Broken City Magazine, Cabinet of Heed, Cahoots Magazine, Canada Free Press, Canoe.ca, Cargo Literary, City River Tree, Cleaver Magazine, Club Plum, Communicators League (Nigeria), Cultural Weekly Los Angeles, Dark Winter Lit, Degenerate Literature, The Dillydoun Review, The Disappointed Housewife, Donut Factory, Dropout Literary Review, Eclectica, The Ekphrastic Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Eunoia Review, Everyday Fiction, Everyday Poetry, Fatal Flaw, Feed Magazine, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Friday, Flash Fiction North, Fortnightly Review, Free the Animal, Free Flash Fiction, Ghost Parachute, Good Food Revolution, Gremolata, Gyroscope, Halfway Down the Stairs, Hare's Lip, Heart of Flesh, Hole in the Head Review, HOOD, Hot Flash Literary, Idea Museum, Idea Factory, Indelible (Dubai), Ilanot Review (Israel), Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, Jake, JMWW, Journal of Radical Wonder, KYSO Flash, Land Luck Journal, Last Leaves, Litro, LossLit, Lost Balloon, Lothlorien, MacQueen's Quinterly, the Mantle, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Microfiction Mondays Magazine, the Miramichi Reader, Misfit Magazine, Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, New Flash Fiction Review, New World Writing, Nine Muses Poetry, Open Book Toronto, Out Impact, Pacific Poetry, Paleo Garden, Page and Spine, Patheos, Peacock Journal, Plane Tree Journal, Poetry Canada, Poetry Reviews, the Poet's Haven, Poetry Pacific, Potato Soup Journal, Pound of Flash, Queen of Cups, Red Coral Grotto, Red Eft, Rune Bear Weekly, Rye Whiskey Review, Scapegoat Journal, Six Sentences, Sledgehammer, South Florida Poetry Journal, South Shore Review, Star 82, Sublime Rush Magazine, Taxicab Mag, Thimble, Third Wednesday, Today’s Toronto, Touched By Fire, Trampset, Trouvaille Review, Unbroken Journal, Unlikely Stories, United Church’s Wonder Café, Unreasonable Faith, Uppagus, The Violet Hour, Visitant Lit, Voice and Verse (Hong Kong), Wayward Literature, Wild Word, Women Can Do Anything, Working Ergonomics, Workman Arts Ledger
Print Publications
Academy Magazine, About Such Things, Adbusters, Amber, American Poets and Poetry, Anthology, Aphrodite Gone Berserk, Arachne, The Archer, ArtAscent, Backspace, Bad Monkey, Black Cat 115, Blood and Aphorisms, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Brownstone Review, Calliope, Canadian Woman’s Studies Journal, Caffeine, Canadian Baptist, Candlelight Poetry Journal, Canned Phlegm, the Complete Woman, Compost Newsletter, The Conscience, The Core, Damaged Goods, Decision Magazine, Diviners, Dog Fancy, Donut Factory, Dusk Till Dawn, Dwan, Even the Kitchen Sink, Erbacce, Eye Weekly, Ever Dancing Muse, the Eyeopener, the Fiddlehead, Filling Station, Fledgling, Fox Poetry Box, Geez Magazine, Gotta Write, Grain Magazine, Hecate’s Loom, Hook and Ladder, illiterature: a journal of found poetry, I Love Cats, In Hell’s Belly, Ink Magazine, In Q Magazine, Jones Avenue, Kairos, Labour of Love, Listen Magazine, Listening Eye, Love Never Fails, Maelstrom Journal, Main Street Rag, McClung’s Magazine, Melting Trees Review, Mind Purge, Minus Tides Magazine, Modern Poetry, Muse of Fire, Nada, Niagara Advance, Ninth Wave, Novella, Oh! Magazine, off our backs, Other Voices, the Outreach, the Outrider, Papyrus, the People’s Poet, Phoebe, Poet’s Page, Poetry Motel, Prairie Winds, Procreation, Q-Age, Quarry Magazine, the Quilliad, Quota, Rattle, Red Booth Review, Rhig Magazine, the Ryersonian, Sidewalks, Siren: Toronto’s Lesbian Newspaper, Siren: a Vancouver Arts Journal, Slinky, Spillway, Still Starving, Stovepipe, Stray Branch Journal, Synchroniciti, Syncopated City, Teen Quest, Tight, Time For Rhyme, Transforum, Transition, Twilight Ending, Unbroken, untethered, Urban Graffiti, Venue Magazine, Voice and Verse Poetry (Hong Kong), What a Magazine!, Whatever Vaughan Magazine, White Wall Review, Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Ink, Write On, Writing For Our Lives, Wyrd, X-tra Newspaper, Yet Another Small Magazine, Young Ambassador, Zygote
Nominations
Best Microfiction, "The Rope Artist," nominated by The Ilanot Review
Best Microfiction, "Darker," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Microfiction, "The Bird Man," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Microfiction, "Marguerites," nominated by Hot Flash Literary
Best Small Fictions, "Chickens, Chickens, Everywhere," nominated by Flash Boulevard
Best Small Fictions, "The Triaminic Man," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly (selected, 2023)
Best Small Fictions, "Clean," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best Small Fictions, "The Oomancer," by Litro (selected, 2024)
Best of the Net, "Angel Ranch," nominated by The Disappointed Housewife
Best of the Net, "Blood," nominated by Litro
Best of the Net, "Fresh Strawberries," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly, finalist
Best of the Net, "August and Everything Before," nominated by Pound of Flash, Kind of a Hurricane Press
Best of the Net, Blue and Gold for Ukraine, artwork, nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best of the Net, Mr. Pig, artwork, nominated by Does It Have Pockets
Best of the Net, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Nighthawk," nominated by Synchronized Chaos
Best of the Net, "Patience, and Other Virtues That I Lack," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "The Divine Leper," nominated by Bright Flash Review
Pushcart Prize, "Promiscuity," nominated by Macqueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "The Paper Dark," nominated by Karen Schauber, editor, The Group of Seven Reimagined (Heritage Books)
Pushcart Prize, "Fresh Strawberries," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Pushcart Prize, "Divorced Eggs," nominated by Last Leaves
Pushcart Prize, "The Archipelago," nominated by Centaur Lit
Pushcart Prize, "Mrs Luzajic as Hebe," nominated by Flash the Court
Pushcart Prize, "The White Rooms," nominated by MacQueen's Quinterly
Best American Food Writing, "What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?" nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "A Century or More of Banana Scandals," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Blue Velvet: in Defence of the Blue Veined Cheeses," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Pop Goes the World: the Chewing Gum Story," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Remember the Lemon," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Octopus: Alien on My Plate," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Best American Food Writing, "Hooray for Pumpkin Pie," nominated by Good Food Revolution
Eric Hoffer Independent Book Award nomination for The Memory Palace, with coeditor Clare MacQueen