I’m a award-winning magazine journalist and the author of The Temple at the End of the Universe: A Search for Spirituality in the Anthropocene, which Bill McKibben described as, “A fascinating journey, described in clear and compelling prose, from stifling certainty to constructive questioning.”

My long-form journalism, personal essays and have appeared in The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Broadview, Utne Reader, Hazlitt, Eighteen Bridges, Quill & Quire, The Vancouver Sun, The Ottawa Citizen, and Geez magazine.

“Unquiet in the Land,” a work of comics journalism I created together with Jonathan Dyck won gold at the 2023 Canadian National Magazine Awards.

Two of my personal essays, “What the Hell?” and “The Way We Give,” were National Magazine Awards finalists.

I received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to report this story about a revolutionary figure who has long intrigued me, and an Amnesty International Media Award for my reporting on rising seas in Bangladesh.

This story about a friend who survived a war of vengeance in the Democratic Republic of Congo won the Dave Greber Freelance Writers’ Award.

I’ve published short fiction in The Walrus, Prairie Fire, and The New Quarterly. My most recent short story appeared in The Walrus.

I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 territory. I grew up in Burkina Faso, and hold an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.

I’m represented by CookeMcDermid literary agency.