curriculum vitae.

Arts and cultural work experience

Program Administrator, Kingston Arts Council, Kingston, ON.

June 2025 - Oct 2025

Juvenis Festival Director, Blue Canoe Theatrical Director, Kingston, ON.

August 2024- June 2025

Absynthe Magazine Editor, Trent University, Peterborough, ON.

Sept 2021- July 2025

Student Anthology Editor, Chickenscratch, Trent University, Peterborough, ON.

Sept 2021- 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 WORKS

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 solo 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

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies of me and eaten alive.” - Audre Lorde

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies of me and eaten alive.” - Audre Lorde

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis