She is most notable for her 2018 novel Our Homesick Songs, which was named as longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Her debut novel, Etta and Otto and Russell and James, was published in 2015,[4] and was a shortlisted finalist for the amazon.ca First Novel Award.
[6] We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.
[7] In 2025, Etta and Otto and Russell and James was a finalist for CBC Reads, championed by Michelle Morgan.
[8] She teaches regularly for Arvon, and runs writing courses annually in Spain with the author Samantha Harvey.