Class acts

It is rather hard to believe that an Engineer can write, but I have now published five books, all based on true life experiences. My favourite, Outdoor Poems With Love, features an iambic rate of...

I graduated this year with a PhD from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, where my dissertation explored how language, power, and identity shape polarization and the ways...

I’m proud to share that I’ve been named an honouree of the 2026 Canada’s Clean50 in the Education & Thought Leadership category.

Most of us have felt it—the creeping doubt when someone twists our words, dismisses our feelings, or makes us question our memory. Bullying, manipulation, and gaslighting are everywhere: at work, in...

In collaboration with a life-long local artist, Raymond Chow, I published a souvenir book of Richmond, BC. It has an unusual format, as all the places depicted in Richmond are portrayed in artwork...

I'm thrilled to share that my story "On the Straight and Narrow" is included in the Alberta Romance Writer's Association 2025 anthology Treasures Along the Fenceline. The anthology is available in...

Dorothy Chang's That Bare Light is a song cycle that includes my poem "Knot" from Wavelengths of Your Song (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013). The premiere will take place on July 29th at the...

I'm publishing Hitler and My Mother-in-Law, my 24th book and second memoir, this October with OR Books. The launch will be in NYC, although I've been a permanent resident in Victoria for the last...

A Room in the Forest, my MFA thesis, has been published by Caitlin Press. It is a story set on "the islands of the people" better known as Haida Gwaii. Lily's story, in some ways, mirrors my own...

Did you know that toxic relationships’ long-term effects are similar to drinking or smoking long term? That’s how powerful our close relationships can be. Coming from a divorced and codependent...