About
I’m a writer who works at the intersection of oral history, ethnography, and literary nonfiction.
My writing is concerned with memory, listening, and the ways history is carried in individual lives.
Trained as an anthropologist, I conducted my doctoral fieldwork with veterans and civilian survivors of a little-known Second World War battle, recording extended conversations and working across local, regimental, national, and private archives. That work shaped my ongoing interest in how people turn experience into story — what surfaces in the telling, and what remains submerged.
My first book, Ghosts of Ortona: Reckoning with the Traumas of Canadian WWII Veterans, returns to that fieldwork decades later, revisiting those conversations to trace the battle’s long aftermath with the clarity of time and distance.
I’ve lived, studied, and worked in Canada, Italy, England, the United States, and southern Africa. I now live in Toronto.