“I am a Canadian author who writes stories that bring together history and the uncanny beauty of the natural world. My writing seeks to illuminate the conversations between people and places, a dialogue that survives in our memories, our stories, and the living ecosystems around us.

I have always loved wild places and spaces. Throughout my lifetime, Georgian Bay has remained a steadfast companion, wild and mysterious, by turns congenial and forbidding. After my son was born, the Bay invited me to lean in and learn to listen to the language of water, rock, and white pine. Soon after, I began writing with the Bay, learning to hear place as a character with a will and memory of its own.

My novels “Perdita” and “Nearness of the Wild” emerged from summers spent at the Cabot Head Lighthouse and Nature Reserve on Georgian Bay.  During those summers, the Bay taught me not only humility as a writer, but also my role as a steward of the land’s testimony. These became the lessons which continue to shape every sentence I craft and every scene I imagine, my stories always striving to echo the living ecosystem which both cradles and compels me.”