I am a writer, performer, and facilitator whose practice moves across poetry, sound, performance, and collective study. My last two book projects, #postdildo and Verbal Violence, emerged through my facilitation of reading groups. I understand the free school as an emancipatory space where knowledge is produced collectively rather than through institutional authority. The intertextual sound work Yes, Sydo also developed through these collaborative reading practices.
Although my work is primarily text-based, it has increasingly expanded into performance, including my role as The Poet in the theatre production Maraschino Tonight and ongoing participation with the avant-garde singing project VEX Choir.
I learned my craft through years of participation in Vancouver's poetry community, attending readings from a young (and tender) age and developing my practice alongside artists, writers, and organizers. This grounding continues to shape my commitment to collaboration, experimentation, and public engagement.
My work explores the relationship between language, emancipatory politics, and desire. Rather than treating politics as a subject, I approach writing as a space for collective inquiry, pleasure, and liberation. Across books, sound, performance, and reading groups, I am interested in the radix — the radical root of a thing — and in creating forms that challenge inherited structures while opening new possibilities for thought, relation, and modes of being.
I am currently examining writing and thinking around provisional belief systems, animal companionship, and letting go without catharsis.
I reside as a guest on still occupied and still unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ lands.