Currents
Proud holder and earner of a PhD in English from Carleton University
Professor in English at the University of Ottawa (and if you’re one of my students creeping on me online, hi, tell me you saw this and get extra credit for snooping)
Associate reviews editor at Arc Poetry Magazine
Co-author of Worry & Fuck (a chapbook with Katie Stobbart)
Co-author of The Trick to Feeling Safe at Home (a chapbook with Katie Stobbart)
Author of IS IT ABOUT RUINS AND GHOSTS (a chapbook about bad dreams)
Sheepish creator of YOLOCAT.
Enthusiastic third base for the last-place team in Ottawa’s most recreational softball league. (Update: we’ve won, like, three games to date! We’re doing so well!)
Drawn, in this website’s header, by the talented Anthony Biondi
Exes
Editor and operator of post ghost press (RIP; 2018-2021)
Co-organizer of “Riverdale: a land of contrasts,” a 2018/2019/2020 semi-academic conference about, yes, the TV show Riverdale. (You can read my 2018 keynote speech / choose-your-own-adventure fan fiction online, if you want, or take a look at the edited collection of academic essays that sprang from this conference)
Ex-poetry editor at Shrapnel Magazine (defunct)
Ex-secretary on the board of directors of the Red Press Society
Ex-volunteer slush pile reader for Augur Magazine and The Louden Singletree
Ex-literary arts curator and books columnist for Raspberry Magazine (defunct)
Blogger at Bayrock, Bookrock (defunct) and New Book in the House (also defunct)
On-again-off-again (and officially now off-again) book reviewer for the Ottawa Review of Books
Ex-records clerk at Library and Archives Canada
Ex-journalist from The Chilliwack Times (defunct) and The Cascade.
Ex-alumni rep and community rep on the board of directors for the Cascade Journalism Society (2013-2016)
Ex-editorial board member and webmaster for The Louden Singletree (2015)
Dessa Bayrock 
