I am a chemist and writer living in Halifax.

 I am currently working as Manager of Formulation & Regulatory with Inkbox Ink, based in Toronto, while developing a parallel career in writing.

I was born in Syracuse, NY, but moved to Truro, NS before starting school. I grew up in east-end Truro. After a late start playing in the Bearcats minor hockey system and graduating from Cobequid Educational Centre, I moved to Halifax for undergraduate studies at Dalhousie, where I majored in chemistry and minored in English.

My somewhat unconventional science career journey includes M.Sc. (University of Ottawa) and Ph.D. degrees (University of Toronto) in synthetic inorganic chemistry, and working in private sector environmental analysis labs in Halifax, Grande Prairie, AB and Ottawa. I also worked for a semester as a researcher at University of Bath, in England. I have been with Inkbox, a manufacturer and e-commerce retailer of long-lasting temporary tattoos, in various capacities for 6 years, helping the company grow from scrappy start-up through its acquisition by Bic in 2022.

I am a writer, and my first love is fiction. I am working on a novel and a collection of short fiction, and have published fiction in The Antigonish Review and most recently The New Quarterly. I also combine my interests in science and writing, beginning by contributing to the blog of the chemistry journal Dalton Transactions during my grad school days. Since then, my writing has been featured in The Nexus, the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute’s newsletter, and in Ecology & Action magazine.