Bio

I am a writer, journalist, editor and a professor of English and creative writing.

In 2003, my first book of fiction was named to The Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2003. That book, the story collection A Sharp Tooth in the Fur, received rave reviews from coast to coast. I have published nearly 75 book reviews for papers such as The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette and Detroit’s Metro Times.

Academically, I have published or presented papers on contemporary literature in France, Sweden, Iceland, Germany, India, Canada and the US.

My debut novel, a bicycle odyssey, rolled out in 2008. Look for The Push & the Pull wherever fine books are sold. In the spring of 2012, my first book of poems emerges.

Here in Canada, I was also the Green Party candidate for the Nova Scotia riding of Halifax in the 2008 federal election. I recently wrote the books column for This Magazine and am the Reviews Editor for the uber-cool Numéro Cinq.