I woke up to happy news this morning. Precarious made the shortlist for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize. According to the website, the prize “is awarded to the best book on Canada, Canadians, and/or Canada’s place in the world published in the previous calendar year.” My son asked if the prize was named in honour […]

Back in June, Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers won the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize. This is the third Mitchell for me. Both Walls: Travels Along the Barricades and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense won the prize. This is the first time, though, that I […]

They grow up so fast, don’t they? (I’ve been mildly scolded about my shamefully out-of-date website, so here I am with a flurry of posts to make up for a shocking amount of lost time.) This month marks a year since I first pulled Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers from my box of author’s […]