About Me

I am a graduate of the Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University, where I focused on creative nonfiction. An experimental short story of mine appeared in Filling Station magazine, which was shortlisted for the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Award. I was selected as a mentee by the Writers Union of Canada for BIPOC Writers Connect and ECW’s BIPOC Writers Mentorship Program.

My debut novel, Weird Rules To Follow, is an award-winning, bestselling novel. It was named a USBBY 2023 Outstanding International Book and is on the Bank Street College of Education Committee’s 2023 list of Best Children’s Books. Weird Rules To Follow also won the IODE Violet Downey Award, the Jean Little First-Novel Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. And it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards.

I am Ts’msyen, from Gitxaala, BC, and I live and work in Vancouver, British Columbia on the unceded and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.