Non-Fiction

• “Art and the 140-character Attention Span”, Adore Chroma – Fine Art Photography Magazine, July 2014.

• “What makes art?: Finger Painting to Fine-Art Photography”, Adore Noir – Fine Art Black-and-white Photography Magazine, Issue 20, June 2014.

• “Makeup, Heels, and Mountain Hiking: the High-Maintenance Backpacker” Luna Luna Mag

• “Een draai aan KLM’s rad van fortuin!” KLM Blog

• “Seeing is Believing?: The Impact of Photography on Collective Memory.” Adore Chroma – Fine Art Photography Magazine, May 2014.

• I Am Expat – Various news and lifestyle articles on Iamexpat.nl, 2014.

• “Tips for Taking South American Taxis.” Travel and Escape, April 2014.

• “Unusual Cemeteries of South America.” Travel and Escape, April 2014.

• “I Risked my Life on a Bolivian Bus to Save $60” The Globe and Mail, March 2014.

• “Colombian New Year in Black and White” The Vancouver Sun, December 2013.

• DIY Safari in South Africa — and our too Close Encounter The Globe and Mail, October 2013.

• Man, Animal, Nature: Safety Concerns in Southern Africa Eye and Pen

• On the Ritual and Romance of Mate  Matador Network

• Opening Eyes to the World in Kingston, Jamaica  Travel Origins Magazine.

• Photo Essay: “The Faces of South America’s Future”  Traveling Canucks –  Guest Post.

• ¿Cachai, güey?”: Unravelling Latin American Spanish Latincouver.com

• The Devil’s Dance: Breaking Into the Salsa Scene Latincouver.com

• “Human Wreckage From Foreign Lands: A Study of Ethnic Victims of the Alberta Sterilization Act” Constellations Undergraduate History Journal

• “Beyond the Legend: Uncovering the Historical Circumstances Behind the Rescue of the Danish Jews” Constellations Undergraduate History Journal

Fiction

• “Thin Ice” The New Quarterly, 2015

• “Russian Red” Zetetic, 2015 

• The Gateway Literary Contest: Second Place Winner

Writing Awards

• Winner of the 2016 HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, for the manuscript of The Dutch Wife 

• The Anton Fiction Prize,  University of Alberta – Awarded for the short story, “Learning to Swim Upstream.”  2011.

• The James Patrick Folinsbee Prize in Writing, University of Alberta – Awarded for the short story “Moroccan Thread.”  2010

• The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau Prize in Canadian History Writing, University of Alberta – Awarded for the paper, “‘God Before Country’ — Limited Identities in a Dutch-Canadian Context.”  2010