Claire's Head (M&S, 2004) was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail.
Blaze Island (Goose Lane, 2020) was a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year and the Hamilton Reads 2021 Pick.
Most recently she was a Fiction Meets Science Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute of Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany.
She has written and spoken internationally about addressing the climate crisis in fiction.
Her nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications including Emergence, Noema, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times Magazine, and Best Canadian Essays.