CURRENT MISSION

To follow my passion and find a new adventure every single day.

ABOUT ME

I grew up in the woods in Northern Ontario and moved to Vancouver in 2009 to attend the University of British Columbia. I've been living the student life in Vancouver for five years, and I'm graduating this spring with a BFA in Creative Writing. I'm returning to UBC in the fall to start a Master's in Creative Writing - because nineteen consecutive years of school just wasn't enough. I love animals and farms. I frequently borrow other people's dogs. I have a thing for goats. I like to cook and bake bread, and I sing in an East Van folk-rock cover choir. I love to travel and meet new people. I seek out adventures everywhere I can.

PHILOSOPHY

Forget the past. Drink some tea!

Interests

Writing, reading, cooking, baking, cavorting, making music, listening to music, people watching, poetry, theatre, film, circus, swimming, hiking, being outside, spending time with animals

• animals
• dogs
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• cooking
• baking
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Xavier Rudd, The Cat Empire, Josh Ritter, Joe Pug, The Bills, Old Crow Medicine Show, Crooked Still, The Wailin' Jennys, Flight of the Conchords, Radiohead, The Beatles, The Beegees, Tom Petty, Queen, Robert Johnson, The Perpetrators, The Parlour Mob, K'naan, Ellie Goulding, and many, many more

Movies: Amelie, The Princess Bride, Garden State, Big Fish, Across the Universe, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Benny and Joon, Stranger than Fiction, Slumdog Millionaire, Sophie's Choice, Back to the Future,

Books: Anything by Raymond Carver, everything by Amy Hempel, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, The Little Prince, Watership Down, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Charlotte's Web, E.B. White's Writings from the New Yorker, All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki, James Herriott's Dog Stories, No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July, poetry by Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Michael Ondaatje, Mary Oliver, Leonard Cohen, Christian Bok, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, W.H. Auden

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I kissed a giraffe. On the lips. Mmmmm.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Italy, Kenya, Malta, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United Kingdom