[1] She credits Grace Paley and Anton Chekhov as early influences.
[2] Her first novel, Thinking About Magritte, has been described as a "pool of brightly tinted cartoon images," and centred on Midnight Cowboy, who lives in Limestone, and whose fantasies about his dead mother bring her back to life.
[3] Her second novel, Down There By The Train,[4] featured a hero named Levon Hawke recovering from the tragic death of his younger sister.
It was a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2001.
She is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Concordia University.