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I'm a physician, writer, and aspiring visual artist from Regina, Saskatchewan  (unceded Treaty 4 territory). I graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a B.Sc. and M.D. in 1999  and completed family medicine residency at the University of Manitoba in 2002. I've practiced medicine in northwestern Ontario, northern Saskatchewan, Nunavut, and from time to time in Regina, where I live with my two children and far too many cats*. My love of poetry began when I met Erin E. MacDonald in grade 9 and she read Tennyson to me in the school library... finally in 2021 I finished a B.A. (English) at the University of Regina, and because I'm happiest in a classroom, ideally learning rather than teaching, I'm now enrolled in a Visual Arts degree program. My poems have appeared in literary journals and a couple of anthologies; I was particularly blown away when “Last evening I stumbled” placed second for Vallum Magazine’s poetry award and my flash fiction story “Four Children” won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild's inaugural Guild Prize. I practice and promote the discipline of Narrative Medicine as developed by Rita Charon and colleagues at Columbia University, aiming to center the patient's story and the clinician's empathetic response, guided by techniques of literary analysis and personal reflection.

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