I Remember Lights (novel, Book*Hug Press, 2025)
Spring 2025 Preview selection for 49th Shelf, CBC Books, Quill & Quire, Globe & Mail
“instantly canonical – an accomplished, necessary novel” Quill & Quire (starred review)
“a detailed portrait of urban life in 1960s and 1970s Montreal” Xtra Magazine
“sweet, bitter, optimistic, and appropriately angry” Plenitude Magazine
“a compulsively readable and highly accomplished piece of fiction” Seaboard Review
“a lyrical read and profound examination of the human condition” Historical Novel Society
“demonstrates the high price of love for those on the margins” Literary Review of Canada
“understated … feels reparative in turbulent political times” Miramichi Reader

Mad Long Emotion (poetry collection, Coach House Books, 2019)
Winner, Archibald Lampman Award
ft. Lime Kiln Quay Road, nominee, bpNichol Chapbook Award
and The Green Carnation, winner, National Magazine Award (Gold)
“impressive and diverse, smart and sinuous” Winnipeg Free Press
“an exuberant openness and passion” The Toronto Star
“breathes new life into old forms” The Gateway
“creative gazes at the interplay between species” CBC Books
“a wonderful read, a brave leap forward” Ossa Magazine

Otter (poetry collection, Coach House Books, 2015)
Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by The National Post
Winner, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Winner, Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize
Nominee, Lambda Literary Award (Gay Poetry)
ft. Gran Vals, winner, Earle Birney Poetry Prize
“seamless and skillful” The Globe & Mail
“vital, on voice, and spirited from start to finish” All Lit Up
“can out-poetry the most elite of poets” National Post
“an excellent ear for the inner disagreement that occurs in poetry” Arc Poetry Magazine
“revives and reviews a particular gay history” Broken Pencil

Anthology publications:
The Journey Prize Stories 31
What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation
Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy
The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry
The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English
Ibid: A Selection of Canadian Poets from All Lit Up
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013
Dragnet Anthology 1
A Crystal Through Which Love Passes: Glosas For PK Page
Pith & Wry: New Canadian Poetry

Chapbooks:
Poem About The Train (Apt. 9 Press, 2014)
Impossibly Handsome (Ferno House, 2013)
Mutt (Odourless Press, 2011)
Lime Kiln Quay Road (above/ground press, 2011)
The Argossey (Apt. 9 Press, 2009)
Alert (AngelHousePress, 2009)
Dust and the Colour Orange (In/Words, 2009)
Nuuk (In/Words, 2008)
Three Knit Hats (In/Words, 2006)

Awards and nominations:
2026 Writer in Residence, University of Ottawa
Winner, 2019 Thomas Morton Prize for Fiction
Winner, 2019 Archibald Lampman Award
Winner, 2019 National Magazine Award for Poetry
Winner, 2018 Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize
Winner, 2016 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Fall 2016 Writer in Residence, Al Purdy A-Frame
Nominated, 2016 Lambda Literary Award
Otter selected as a National Post Best Book of 2015
Nominated, 2015 bpNichol Chapbook Award
Winner, 2013 Earle Birney Poetry Prize
Nominated, 2013 John Lent Poetry Prize
Runner-up, 2011 Carleton University Writing Contest
Runner-up, 2008 George Johnston Poetry Prize
Shortlisted, 2008 Bywords John Newlove Poetry Award