This artist catalogue is an overview of my solo exhibition stay here stay how stay. Featuring art, poetry, and theory, a foreword by Kate Wolforth, as well as essays by Emily Critch and Sonja Boon. Designed by Hazel Eckert and produced by The Rooms.

Published by Anstruther Press, this poetry chapbook playfully explores intergenerational touches and relations that wash through the lives of trans sex workers in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland).

I gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of ArtsNL and the Canada Council for the Arts.

This book takes an intimate, collaborative, interdisciplinary autoethnographic approach that both emphasizes the authors’ entangled relationships with the more-than-human, and understands the land and sea-scapes of Newfoundland as integral to their thinking, theorizing, and writing. The authors draw on feminist, trans, queer, critical race, Indigenous, decolonial, and posthuman theories in order to examine the relationships between origins, memories, place, identities, bodies, pasts, and futures.

poetry (selected)

an ordinary kiss

Culture & Tradition, 36, pp. 46-47. 2025.

aftercare (2025 Arts & Letters Award)

Queer Country Crossroads, ed. Mabe Kyle, p. 141. Qualicum Beach: Caitlin Press. 2025.

cordage

The Ex-Puritan, 66/67, 2025.

islets (2024 Riddle Fence Poetry Prize)

Riddle Fence, 53, pp. 4-6, 2024.

fragments, water/wept

The Anstruther Reader, ed. Jim Johnstone, pp. 142-145. Windsor: Palimpsest Press. 2024.

fish knife

antiphony, 2, p. 40, 2024.

intracontinual

filling Station, 82, p. 16, 2024.

errant pleasure + heretofore

Horseshoe, 2 (1), pp. 17-18, 2023.

oceanleaving

PRISM international, 62 (1), p. 32, 2023.

umbilicus

Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, 3 (1), pp. 16-18. 2023.

anti-fragile looking forward

Spectral Lines: An Anthology of Visual Poems, 2022. Toronto: League of Canadian Poets.

every shadow a bother but you + annals of soft resistance

Arc, 94, pp. 38-39. 2021.

eating all your ashes i was meant to spread at sea

The Dalhousie Review, 100 (3), p. 358. 2020.

 

ANNOYING HH

Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry, eds. Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme, pp. 125-127. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press. 2019.

creative scholarship (selected)

On Wave Relationships and Struggle at the Margins: Transfeminine Histories and Echoes in Newfoundland (with Rhea Rollmann)

Active History. September 16, 2025.

Fish Trade Futures: Counter-Archives and Sex Worker Worlds at the Margins of St. John’s Harbour

Journal of Folklore Research, 60 (2/3), 67-94. 2023.

The Still Unfathomed Trans+Oceanic

The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, 19 (2), Art 3. 2022.

Blue Light as Ineffable Sensuous Other

Feral Feminisms, 10, pp. 132-136. 2021.

Seawater/C-cup: Fishy Trans Embodiments and Geographies of Sex Work in Newfoundland

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 11 (1), pp. 17-35. 2020.