Novelist, Journalist, Wordsmith.
My fiction, creative non-fiction, columns, and travel-writing have appeared in a range of Canadian and international publications (here). I’ve won the Tethered by Letters fiction contest, the Frank McCourt prize for Creative Nonfiction, the Nonfiction prize from Causeway Lit, and the Fiction prize from Freefall Magazine.
My second novel, The Leap Year Gene, will be published by HarperCollins Canada and The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley by Union Square Press (USA) in August 2024.
The Quintland Sisters, my debut novel, was published in Canada, the United States, and internationally by William Morrow|Harper Collins|Harper360; it was one of the top 10 bestselling Canadian fiction books of 2019.
Born and raised in Vancouver, I’ve lived in Montreal, Cape Town, and the Middle East. I studied English Lit at McGill University and did a graduate degree in journalism at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. From October 2015 to March 2025, I was the Editorial Director for the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, NY, where I also served as the Editor-in-Chief at the cardiology news website, TCTMD. Before that, I worked for more than 14 years as a writer, then editor, at theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology, owned by WebMD. I was also the Global News Director for Medscape France and Medscape Germany. I now divide my time between Kelowna and Sechelt, British Columbia.
Publicist (Canada)
Alice Tibbets
HarperCollins Canada
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Publicist (United States)
Jennifer Lu
Union Square Press
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Agent inquiries
Samantha Haywood
Transatlantic Agency
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