Twenty-three years ago, I was born in a small fishing and mining community on the East Coast of Canada. Since then, I've travelled much, lived in big cities, and acquired a Bachelor of Arts, but salt and coal still seem to run thick in my blood and home always calls me back. Right now, I work one of those low-benefits, low-pay, low-stimulation jobs that 20-somethings often take up inbetween degrees to avoid copious amounts of debt but when I'm not there I'm out doing the things I love: hiking, cycling, camping, fishing, and my one true passion, long-distance motorbiking. I've actually just returned from a two-week trip across the Canadian North, my father and I taking our motorcycles across the recently completed Trans-Labradorian Highway, a route that all-told entailed 1300 kilometres of gravel road and 2800 kilometres paved. But I'm also a city girl, loving the stillness of a morning hungover from one-too-many drafts at the local pub, the bustle of colours and smells and people in a downtown core, and the various flavours of the readily available ethnic cuisines. Amidst all this, documenting my experiences in writing, whether in poetry or prose - but mostly the former - has remained important to me.

If you'd like to know a bit more about me, check out my interview (click here) with ~EternalSunday.