Writer of fiction, poetry, etc - based in Vancouver BC
I was born in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on the Fourth of July, 1992. My mom is Canadian, my dad was American—she got the place, he got the time.
I grew up there, in Vancouver—the fourth generation to live in this city, I feel more rooted than most in this relatively rootless city. I’m still in Vancouver—I’ve gone, come back, and might someday go again. But I’m here now. I feel the rain in my bones, even on the days when it isn’t raining.
I went to McGill in Montreal, lived over there for four years, and that was the only exception to Vancouver. I got my degree in English Lit from McGill, but I learned at least as much from the wider city of Montreal; and I care at least as much about my association with Montreal generally as I do with McGill specifically. That’s where I really started writing, and it bleeds out of most of what I write—even the stuff that has nothing to do with Montreal, because I find I sound like a Montreal writer. But that’s just me, and I might be being sentimental when I say that. I tried to be a Vancouver writer, too, I really did—but I don’t know if it came off.
I write a stupid, stupid amount and often feel like I’m drowning in my own writing. I write much faster than I can publish. Not all of it is any good, but some of it is. It all means something or other to me—otherwise, I wouldn't have written it.
That’s what this website is for: hopefully, this can be a home for it, that I can put out in close to real time, so it does not pile up and drown me. Hopefully someone else will also enjoy reading it. Sometimes people do. Either way, it’s here for me. And I can look at this webpage and be pleased.
Whatever else I write for, whoever else I sometimes write for, my writing is always for myself.