Books, Awards & Honors

 Awards, Honors

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The inaugural recipient of PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-In-Exile Scholarship  

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Nominated for the 2011 Frank O’Conner Short Story Award: The World’s Largest Short Story Prize

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Second Vice Chair of the National Council of  The Writers’ Union of Canada ,2015-18

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Jury for the 2016 Freedom to Read Award                                                                  

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Writer-in-Residence at the Joy Kogawa Historic House, Vancouver, BC, 2013

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PEN Lecturer-in-Residence at the George Brown College, Toronto, 2012-13

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Writer-in-Residence at R.D. Lawrence, Minden Hill, Ontario, 2012