Books:
Available to Order:
My essay, More Like A Garden, is in Bad Artist Anthology, by Touchwood Press Imprint Brindle & Glass, Fall 2024
You can order at your local bookstore or online here
Essays and Poems:
F I R E W E E D, Alchemical Afternoon by Rebecca Wood for Contact Photography Festival, Spring 2023
EMERG E, Grimsby Wayzgoose Anthology, 2022
Love Letter to Lake Ontario, Unsalted Great Lakes, 2020
A Posture of Resolve, KOTN Journal, January 2018 (no longer in print)
No Lo So, Leaning Into Discomfort, KOTN Journal, November 2017 (no longer in print)
Awards:
Mirrors and The Madonna, Hamilton Arts and Letters Short Works Prize for off-the Radar Writers in Literary Nonfiction, 2019
Press, Interviews and Design Books:
Bad Artist, Press in CBC: 54 Works of Canadian Nonfiction to check out this fall, Quill & Quire Fall Preview, and 49th Shelf Most Anticipated
History of The Local Flower Collective, Copy Published 2018
In The Market For Flowers, Interview for Kathy Renwald, Hamilton Spectator, June 2018
Flower House Detroit, Design Book, Produced and Published in 2016 by Botanical Artist Lisa Waud and Photographer Heather Saunders
Artist Q+A, Ode to Sunday, December, 2016
Slow Seasonal Flowers Have Their Day, Interview for Kathy Renwald, Hamilton Spectator, March 2016
A Fine Medley In Studio, Green Living Magazine, February 2016
A Year of Gardens and Grace, Hamilton Spectator, December 2016
A Fine Medley Pop-Up Flower Shop, This Must Be The Place, February 2015
Artist Q+A for Stephanie Trendocher, Beaux Mondes, December 2014
Small Business Changing the Face of Consumerism, Interview for Kristel Bulthuis, Urbanicity, December 2014
Botanical Art and Garden Installations:
ASCFG and Canadian Flower Week Workshop and Installation 2024
Summer Flower Installation for CHIME at Wino Importation Inc in conversation with perfume makers: LVNEA perfume, Monsillage, Raed, and Jazmin Sarai Scents, Montreal Canada, July 2023
Spring Flower Installations for Rebecca Wood’s Alchemical Afternoon with Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, May 2023
The Black Cat, Botanical Art with Timberlost Studios in conversation with Anahita Azahimi’s Quiet Vignettes, Featured in CBC Arts for Design TO, January 2020
The Assembly Gallery, AFM Botanical Art in conversation with Stephen Altena’s Silent Spring, September 2018
Black and Smith, Vessels for Flowers, May 2018
Carnegie Gallery, AFM Botanical Art in conversation with Artist Beth McQueen’s Wolf Lake Breakup, January 2018
KOTN Window Display, Cotton Candy Amaranth, 2018
The Power Plant Gallery, AFM Botanical Art Installation with Wild North Flowers, Timberlost, Smells Like Flowers, June 2017
KOTN, Window in Spring, May 2017
La Musa De La Flores, Mexico Studio Work, The Most Beautiful Things Don’t Come In Masses, February 2017
Flower House Detroit, AFM Botanical Art, Aroma In The Upstairs Bathroom, October 2015
The Cotton Factory, Revolving Studio Work, 2014-2018
Volunteer (current and past):
President/ Chair of CNFC, Creative Nonfiction Collective Society
Programming and Development Committees for CNFC
The Writers’ Union of Canada Member
MFA Writing Group through the University of King’s College
Canadian Flower Week
The Local Flower Collective