I am a songwriter, performance poet and the 2019-2023 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, Ontario, on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Works in Arc, Prairie Fire, Train, and The Fiddlehead. As laureate my duties came with a mandate to explore ecological issues in my community, and included environmental art interventions and site-specific social justice projects centring on homelessness. I am co-editor, with Penn Kemp, of Poems in Response to Peril: An Anthology in Support of Ukraine, profits from which went to displaced Ukrainian cultural workers.