Ramblin'

Setting has more impact on us than we may realize. Places shape us. For many people, where they come from is who they are. . . . Writing fiction allows us the opportunity to dig beneath the reflection and ask questions about who we are, how we came to be that way, and how it prompts our interactions with other people. As I always tell my writers, storytelling is an exercise in empathy.

Sharing some of my travels as a nomad and the editorial insights they connect with and inspire while I’m on the move,and an addition to my website felt the best way to do that. So here goes nothing. As an introduction, it felt appropriate to begin while I’m in Winnipeg, my de facto home. These days, it’s closer to the verb definition of a migratory bird. I’ve left Winnipeg for many reasons since 2012—university, relationship, work, general roving—but inevitably I return, t