curriculum vitae.
Arts and cultural work experience
Program Administrator, Kingston Arts Council, Kingston, ON.
June 2025 - Oct 2025
Juvenis Festival Director, Blue Canoe Theatrical Productions, Kingston, ON.
August 2024- June 2025
Absynthe Magazine Editor, Trent University, Peterborough, ON.
Sept 2021- July 2025
Chickenscratch — Student Anthology Editor, Trent University, Peterborough, ON.
Jan 2022- April 2022
“Hauntological Horror in Orson Welles War Of The World broadcast and Jonathan Sims The Magnus Archives”, Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror. Edited by Laura Álvarez Trigo and Anna Marta Marini.
Artist talks, presentations, articles, PUBLISHED WORK
Forthcoming
Jamaican Creole in Canada, Linguistic Varieties in North America, Multilingual Matters.
Forthcoming
March 2025
Growing Pains film screening, The Screening Room.
“The smell of fried snapper (caught in the mid-day breeze)”, poem, Room Magazine.
December 2024
Winter 2024
“The sea as solace on the Atlantic passage”, poem, Acta Victoriana.
July-August 2024
“The Catharsis of Black Feminine Rage”, a conference talk for the panel: Not My Normal Self: Madness, Normality and Textual Selves, ACCUTE.
May 2023
Open Studio hours at Modern Fuel and Union Gallery, Twofold Residency.
“Life Writing in Poetry: mothertongue” a conference presentation given to the Queen’s English Department at Works in Progress.
January 2023
Poetry Reading at the launch of Juliane Okot Bitek’s, A is for Acholi.
February 2023
“Frankenstein’s monster”, poem, Arc Poetry.
Fall 2022
“muggy bodies”, poem, Absynthe Magazine.
Fall 2022
A commissioned poem for the grand opening of Trent University’s Freedom Lounge.
Fall 2021
ResidencieS
July 2024
Twofold Residency, Union Gallery, Kingston, ON.
August 2024
Twofold Residency, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON.
Media Coverage
A radio interview about my work on Growing Pains, Close Reads, CFRC, Kingston, ON.
February 2025
“‘Growing Pains’ connects perspectives through art”, an article about my collaborative exhibition for the Queen’s Journal, https://www.queensjournal.ca/four-emerging-bipoc-artists-challenge-traditional-boundaries-during-
January 2025
“Four emerging BIPOC Artists challenge traditional boundaries during Twofold Residency”, an article about the Twofold Residency for the Queen’s Journal, https://www.queensjournal.ca/four-emerging-bipoc-artists-challenge-traditional-boundaries-during-twofold-residency/
July 2024
Grant Administrator, Kingston Arts Council, Kingston, ON.
Dec 2025 - Present
Designed a Reading Course, “The Trauma and Documentation of the Black Female Body in Western Literature”.
Summer 2021
Curatorial & Jury Experience, Remix Residency, Modern Fuel Art Centre.
July 2025
