Education

University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK — PhD in Theology (2024–Present)
Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts
Regent College, Vancouver BC — MA Theological Studies (2017–2020)
Integrative Project in Arts and Theology: “Lapis Lazuli: The Blueing of Language in a Sacramental World”
McGill University, Montreal QC — MA English (2016–2018)
Thesis: “‘Here at the Brink’: Don McKay’s Edge Poetics and the Articulation of Wilderness in Canadian Poetry”
University of Victoria, Victoria BC — BA English 2007–2012

Awards

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada — Doctoral Fellowship (2025–2028)
School of Divinity Postgraduate Research Scholarship — University of St Andrews (2024)
Finalist for the VanderMey NonFiction Prize (2021)
Board of Governors’ Prize for Proficiency (MATS) — Regent College (2020)
Spiritual Theology Prize — Regent College (2020)
Dal Schindell Arts & Theology Prize — Regent College (2020)
McGill MA Entrance Scholarship (2016)

Presentations

“‘Everything Engraced’: Sacramental Poetics in Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm.” Paper presented at Regent College’s Academic Symposium, Regent College, Vancouver, BC. (April 2018)
“‘Silence Like an Overwhelming Noise’: Edges and Ethics in Don McKay’s Writing.” Paper presented at the 10th Raddall Symposium, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS. (July 2017)
“A ‘Beautiful Fusion’: On Death and Becoming Nature in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel.” Paper presented at the University of Toronto’s Endings Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. (April 2017)

Publications

“An Eclipse of Moths,” Ruminate 63/64 (Fall/Winter 2022): 161–167.
“Augustine and the Hummingbird,” EcoTheo Review, Jun 2023.

Academic Work Experience

Research Assistant for Dr. Hans Boersma (Regent College) | Sep 2018–April 2020
Teaching Assistant for History of Doctrine (THEO 608, Regent College) | 2019–2020
Teaching Assistant for Theology I & II (THEO 601/602, Regent College) | 2018–2020
Teaching Assistant for Christian Thought & Culture (INDS 501/502, Regent College) | 2018–2019
Teaching Assistant for Old Testament Foundations (BIBL 501, Regent College) | 2017
Research Assistant for Groupe de recherches et d’études sur les livres au Québec (GRELQ) | 2016–2017

Other Work Experience

Regent College, Vancouver BC — Lead Communications Writer/Editor (2021–2024)
Union Gospel Mission, Vancouver BC — Communications Writer (2014–2016)

Volunteer

Megaphone Magazine, Vancouver BC — Writing Workshop Facilitator (2015–2016)
Downtown Story Collective at Our Place Society, Victoria BC — Co-Founder (2012–2013)