Writer 

Hailing from rural Alberta, Carmen embarked on a global journey in her 20s, living in diverse countries such as Japan, Brazil, and France, among others, before finding a home in Montreal. After more than a decade in that vibrant city, she has once again embarked on a new adventure with her loyal dog Stevie at her side. At the moment you may find her somewhere in the Mexican desert in a white Scion.

She's been published in The Cut, adbusters, CHIC by St. Germain, and L’Officiel magazines, The Humber Literary Review, the literary anthology “emerge”, and one of her publications lives in a Wilson textbook on essay writing. She has blogged many different phases of her life though most of those archives now belong to the invisible underwebs.

In 2008, she wrote a novella and made lifelong writer friends at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University while housed in the last cheap apartment in East Van. A few short paragraphs of her thoughts are published in Sheila Heti’s collaborative book “Women in Clothes”. She worked as a copywriter for several years and was a Creative Lead at one of Canada’s top ad agencies. Her most recent job was as Head of Content at Rodeo FX, an award-winning visual effects studio. Find a portfolio of that work here.

Read her longform essay on love addiction in The Humber Literary Review here. She was always writing a book titled “Stories I Wish I Could Tell You In Person” and that manuscript also lives in the ethers. She paints and she’s not bad at it.