Writing

Writing News:

“How Many More,” a short story from the Lake Burntshore story cycle, is online now Niv Magazine!

I have a new story, “Shimon’s Trial,” up at the Ex-Puritan! The story exists in the Lake Burntshore universe.

“Tasmanian Shores,” a short story published in Prairie Fire 44.4 was chosen by Zsuzsi Gartner to be in Best Canadian Stories 2026. Look for it in fall 2025!

Two poems, “Bad Mood Rising” and “Good Mood Fleeting” are included in the climate change poetry anthology Speech Dries Here on the Tongue.

Recent Writing:

“The Birth of Freshwater,” a new poem at Beaver Magazine.

Links to My Online Work:

Poetry:

“Shifting Baseline Syndrome”

“Cousinage: A Meet Cute”

“Acid Trip in a Portapotty”

Fiction:

“Jawbone Lake,” a short story published in Camel Issue 2.

“Rubble Children,” the eponymous story from Rubble Children..

“Tel Aviv – Toronto Red Eye: A Dialogue,” another story from Rubble Children (originally published in This Magazine).

“Little Shits,” a short story originally published in The Wisconsin Review.

“Toronto 488,” a short story published online at The Brooklyn Review.

“The Streets of Thornhill”

“The Krasners”

“Temples”

“Killing Plants”

“Ninety-Nine”

Creative Non-Fiction:

“Toronto’s (Not So) Jewish Suburbs”

Review Essays:

I reviewed Saeed Teebi’s Her First Palestinian for The Literary Review of Canada. You can also check out a substack letter where I compare Teebi’s story “Enjoy Your Life, Capo,” to Nicole Krauss’s story “Shelter.”

“The Terrible Bloom of What We Planted: Three Canadians Confront Israel/Palestine”

Review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Here I Am