Writer, Content Strategist, Entrepreneur
I’m a published author, editor, and entrepreneur based in Nanaimo, BC. I’m honoured to live and work on the traditional and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation.
I’m the owner of Heritage Cookbook, a custom publishing platform that helps families, businesses, and fundraising groups turn recipes and the stories behind them into professionally designed cookbooks. My work sits at the intersection of storytelling, publishing, and product development—designing and launching tools and programs that transform personal content into structured, scalable, and meaningful products.
My background is in writing, editing, and content strategy. I hold a BA in Art History from the University of Victoria and a Masters in Food Culture and Communications from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. I worked as a tree-planting camp cook before landing my first major writing role as Tourism Richmond’s 365 Days of Dining Food Blogger, where I published daily content for a year.
That experience led to FEAST: An Edible Road Trip, a cross-country storytelling project I co-created with Dana VanVeller. Over five months, we travelled 37,000 km across all ten provinces and three territories, documenting Canadian food culture. The project won a Saveur Best Food Blog Award and evolved into a cookbook published by Penguin Random House Canada. FEAST: Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Road Trip was released in 2017 and went on to win Gold at the Taste Canada Awards.
Over the years, I’ve worked as a content strategist and writer for brands and publications including Row 7 Seeds, Internova, and Bon Appétit and contributed to a large-scale Indigenous publishing project with the Government of Nunavut with research conducted across the Canadian Arctic.
Today, my focus is on building and refining storytelling-driven products and programs—from cookbook platforms to educational and legacy-focused initiatives.
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