Essays and Poems:

More Like A Garden, Bad Artist Anthology, Touchwood Imprint Brindle & Glass, Fall 2024

F I R E W E E D, Alchemical Afternoon by Rebecca Wood for Contact Photography Festival, Spring 2023

EMERG E, Wayzgoose Anthology, 2022

Love Letter to Lake Ontario, Unsalted Great Lakes, 2020

A Posture of Resolve, KOTN Journal, January 2018

No Lo So, Leaning Into Discomfort, KOTN Journal, November 2017

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:

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:

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

Development Committee Member for CNFC

MFA Writing Group through University of King’s College

Toronto Flower Market

Canadian Flower Week

The Local Flower Collective