I write on poetry, ecology, culture and issues of broad concern to society, including climate change, industrial innovation and notable academic research. My journalism, essays, reviews, and poems have appeared in local and national publications ranging from the Walrus and Cottage Life to Canadian Geographic and Readers’ Digest to Canadian Business, the Literary Review of Canada, University Affairs and the Malahat Review. My work has earned several National Magazine Award honourable mentions and has received the Award of Journalism Excellence in Engineering.
in the Walrus
- The poet whose work helped set the stage for #MeToo
- How farmers are saving the trumpeter swan
- Do you know what you’re eating?
- The otherworldly luminescence of Mary Pratt’s art
- Souvankham Thammavongsa shows us the beauty of a furious poem
- Robyn Sarah’s exquisitely untrendy poetry
A sampler
- How bacterial diseases move between elk and cattle, Cottage Life online, March 2020
- How to be a wetland guardian, Cottage Life, June 2019
- Flora and Fauna (on the early poetry of Margaret Atwood and Pat Lowther), Canadian Notes & Queries, Fall 2018
- Every possible problem in the world (essay on Elizabeth Bowen’s Heat of the Day), the Puritan, March 2017
- The next battle: from soldier to civilian, University Affairs, January 2016
- Everything I need to know I learned from The Bean Trees, Canadian Notes & Queries, Fall/Winter 2015
- On reading and reviewing, Lemon Hound, September 2013
- Go jump in the lake! Cottage Life, summer 2013
- Alumina Upended, Canadian Chemical News, June 2013
- The Seahorse Race, Reader’s Digest, June 2011
- The Last Ka-ching, Toronto Life, December 2010
- Hide and Seek (on the poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen), Canadian Notes & Queries, summer 2009
- A Tolerable Supper (feature on lichens), Cottage Life, May 2009
- Lost and Found Poet #13: Dorothy Roberts, Arc Poetry Magazine, 2007
- The Better Clothespin, Invention & Technology, fall 2006
- Poland’s hereafter, Maisonneuve, February 2006
- Unsafe Assumption (investigative feature on PAHs, the chemical in fire retardants), Canadian Geographic, May/June 2003
- The Model Scientist (profile of Canada’s chief cliamte-change modeller), Canadian Geographic, May/June 2002
- Plugged-in Women, Chatelaine, November 2000
- What Price Privacy, Canadian Business, February 1999
- The Most Popular Guys in the World, Canadian Business, December 1998
- Black Lagoons (on the Sydney Tar Ponds), Saturday Night, October 1998