My work aims to exist at the intersection of personal expression and communal dialogue, as a means of resistance and connection; it's driven partly by wanting to inform and partly by a need to shout into the void. Engagement with the world is central to my writing due to my love of weaving art, music, politics, mythology, history, and literature references into my pieces. In terms of style, I am drawn to experimentation, pushing my boundaries through playing with enjambment and sentence structure as well as using form an active device that shapes meaning instead of just a container. Though I primarily write in free verse, I use sound devices and internal rhyme to build rhythm. While imagery is my favourite aspect of writing, I aim to ground my work in stories, even the small, seemingly innocuous ones.

My influences range across genres and generations. Writers like Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope, Richard Siken, Liz Howard, Adam Wolfond, Kai Cheng Thom, Mimi Zhu, Edgar Allan Poe, Ted Kooser, and Walt Whitman have shaped my approach to storytelling, voice, cause, and emotional intensity. Some of my literary touchstones (though I'm constantly finding new ones) include The Midnight Library (Matt Haig), Something That May Shock and Discredit You (Daniel M. Lavery), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Where The Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky), Crush (Richard Siken), If We Were Villains (M.L. Rio), Humankind: A Hopeful History (Rutger Bregman), The Elements of Style (E.B. White and William Strunk), Falling Back in Love with Being Human (Kai Cheng Thom), and Be Not Afraid of Love (Mimi Zhu).  I'm also HUGELY inspired by the music/songwriting of artists such as Alex G, Kevin Atwater, Daffo,  Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, My Chemical Romance, Pinegrove, Adrianne Lenker, Hey Nothing, Laura Jane Grace, Mitski, Jack Stauber, Odie Leigh, Hozier, Sun Kil Moon, and Leith Ross.

Academically, I studied genre under Professor Ki’en Debicki (2022) and community-based writing under Professor Daniel Coleman (2023) at McMaster University. Additionally, I also took writing-based courses with Dr. Jeremy Cohen of TalkDeath and Dr. Michael Egan. In 2024, I took an advanced poetry workshop with Professor Adam Dickinson at Brock University, which was transformative in refining my craft and engagement with poetics.