She has been a columnist for The Globe and Mail and Chatelaine and a film critic for the National Post and CBC Arts Online.
Her work has appeared in many publications including Toronto Life, The New York Times, and The Guardian.
She is also a former co-host of the film program Reel to Real, and has published three novels, How Happy to Be in 2006, Everybody Has Everything in 2012 and Stay Where I Can See You in 2020.
The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork is her non-fiction exploration of the erosion of leisure, published in 2017.
She has won three Canadian National Magazine Awards, including one for a profile of filmmaker David Cronenberg in Toronto Life and has been nominated multiple times.