About Me

I started writing when I was thirteen. I sat down, wrote a scary story, and shared it with my family and friends. They found it gross, creepy, and when I killed a character, they reacted. Getting that response—I was hooked.

But I got in my own way. I struggled with grammar and punctuation, which led to a lack of confidence, which turned into fear.

It took fifteen years to come back.

I forced myself to write ten very bad scripts over a year—all of which will never see the light of day.

I asked my sister-in-law to help fix one of them, and then we wrote seven of our own together. None of those were ever made either.

But it built a writing partnership, and together we wrote the internationally award-winning Shepherd & Wolfe mystery series about two teenage boys who chase serial killers.

In between, I taught screenwriting at the University of Regina for over a decade and served as writer-in-residence at the Regina Public Library.

What I Write Now

Over the past fifteen years, I've lost a lot of people. Dad. Mom. Sister. Aunt. All from Alzheimer's, dementia, or cancer. And I was a caregiver through a good part of it. It was a lot.

And my new work reflects that.

I write stories and poems about life, death, memory, and grief. Stories about the things we feel and don't always understand. Stories about change, and stories about stories themselves and how they help us remember. Some are sad, some odd, some humorous. Often, they're short, compressed, and stripped down to what matters.

I publish them here on this website. I try to post weekly—sometimes more—but when the stories just don't come, I let it be. I'd rather they feel right and true than forced.

I have other plans as well: publish some as collections, do readings, and send a few to magazines and journals.

But the goal is to slowly build something special of my own—independently, no publisher, just me sharing my writing directly with you.

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