I was born in Toronto and grew up Pentecostal. In university, I left the faith and became a zealot for literature, completing a PhD in English at Harvard, where I subsequently taught courses on literature and religion in the college’s writing program.

After attending the Banff Centre’s workshop for emerging writers in 2018 (and an argument about Trump with a family member, naturally), I began to work on the stories in End Times in earnest, hoping to better understand the culture I’d grown up in. More often than not, my stories are an argument I’m having with myself—about why someone might return to the faith I have left, and more broadly about what an evangelical faith makes possible for some people, especially those with precarious lives, such as immigrants and single parents. Ultimately, I remain fascinated by the faith that eludes me.

My work has been published in The New Quarterly, Image, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere; as well as performed on CBC radio and at Montreal’s Blue Met International Literary festival. I live in Montreal.