About the Author

By day, I’m a (well, the) humble writer for the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering: I write copy for fundraising, the alumni magazine, annual reports, press releases, web sites — anything were engineering needs translating into English. By night, I write poetry. And a novel in progress with a talking cat in it. I keep a journal which is mostly about the baby.

My first book, Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska, drawn from the stories of a World War II infantryman, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2003. The manuscript won the CBC Literary Award, and was featured in enRoute magazine an on the CBC Program Between the Covers. The book won the Milton Acorn award and was short-listed for the Pat Lowther.

My second book, Seal up the Thunder, was published in spring 2005, also from Wolsak and Wynn. It’s about the Bible. Sound like the last thing you want to read? It was the last thing I would ever imagine writing. Read this poem before you run away.

I am a Catholic by birth and by choice, a feminist by upbringing, particle physicist by training, secretary by day, New Quarterly editor by night, and writer by religious vocation.

I live in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, with my husband, my fellow geek, my fellow writer, and great love of my life, James Bow and our daughter Vivian, centre of the universe, born November 2005. We have one cat, two woks, three domain names, four full filing cabinets, seven seasons of Buffy DVDs, and thousands of books.