He is the author of three previous collections of poems: Bonfires, The Cold Panes of Surfaces, and Winter Cranes. His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poetry in Canada. His next book The Cloud Versus Grand Umificiation Theory will be published in the Fall of 2017 by ECW press. His poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, Arc Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Event, The Malahat Review, PRISM international among other publications. He lives and writes in Waterloo, Ontario.