She lived in Montreal, Nova Scotia, and Port of Spain, Trinidad, before settling in Ottawa, Ontario.

Poems from her second book of poetry, Drunkard’s Path (2001), won the 1996 Atlantic Writing Competition.

[9] The poems of Reunion ask the reader to forge connections and reverberations between narrative braids.

However here there is a decidedly Gothic feeling to the poems, both in their psychological nature and in the use of the pastoral to further highlight the darkness within the collection.

[10] In 2019 she was appointed English Poet Laureate of Ottawa (Ontario) for a two-year term.