About

In a nutshell, I am a writer, editor, storyteller, and (day) dreamer.

I am also a third-year Creative Writing and Psychology student at Vancouver Island University (VIU) and an international student from Germany. At VIU, I had the privilege to learn from inspiring professors, especially Joy Gugeler, Susan Juby, and Craig Taylor, and to have taken classes in publishing, fiction, script writing, and journalism with incredible peers.

This year, I was a Co-Managing Editor and Co-Acquisitions Editor for Portal 2026, a nationally distributed 104-page full-colour literary magazine with a circulation of 2500, where I served as Fiction Editor and Copy Editor in 2025. This year, I managed a team of three to edit seven creative nonfiction pieces of up to 2000 words each. I thrive on tight deadlines as Portal’s production period for 25 pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and script is only two months. You can take a look at this colourful curation of literature here.

In October 2024, my short story “How to Make a Sand Cake” was published in GOOEY’s second issue and became my first publication. In April 2025 and 2026, two of my book reviews were published in Portal, online and in print respectively. My stage play “Silence In-Between” premiered at Satyr Players’ annual One-Act Festival in April 2026, and my short story “Communication Stalls” appears in Aporia Literary Journal volume 1 in 2026.

I have received the Pat Bevan Scholarship for Fiction in 2025 and a TouchWood Editions Award for publishing in 2026, and my essay “Gender Variance in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks and Four Souls” was nominated for VIU’s English Department Essay Competition 2024-2025 in the first-year category.

Since September 2024, I have also been the president of the Creative Writing Club at VIU. I hosted weekly workshops, collaboratively organized over 15 events including trivia and readings, and represented the club six times at the bi-annual club fair to engage with the community, entice potential members, and advertise upcoming events. I am incredibly grateful for the community at VIU.