About Me

I’m a human geographer, writer, and urban researcher drawn to cities shaped by rupture, memory, and longing.

Toronto’s inner/outer suburbs quickly and quietly taught me how to read place. To notice what gets remembered and what’s allowed to fade. That instinct led me to journalism, then to urban planning, and eventually to academia, where I’ve found ways to write about place that hold both feeling and politics.

I write across academic and creative forms: journal articles, essays, fieldnotes, and fragments. My work has appeared in cultural geographies, Literary Geographies, Progressive City, and you are here: the journal of creative geography, among others. I care deeply about writing that is both critical and alive – writing that traces the emotional textures of place and makes room for uncertainty and absence.

As a teacher, I try to hold space for reflection and curiosity. I’ve taught courses on place and identity, postcolonial geographies, and urban theory, and I believe in learning that connects lived experience to the structures that shape it.

At its core, my work is about listening – to cities, to people, to what remains after the official story ends.