Her
debut novel The Town That Drowned, published in 2011 by
Goose Lane Editions, won the
Commonwealth Book Prize for Canada and Europe in 2012. It was also awarded the 2012 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, was shortlisted for several other literary awards, and was longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her 2nd novel, All The Things we Leave Behind, was published in 2016, also by Goose Lane Editions. Her first children's book, The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt, was published in 2020 by
Tundra Books. In 2021, her book, Disaster at the Highland Games had a
Scottish Gaelic edition published that was shortlisted for the Best book for Children/Youth at the 2022 Gaelic Literature Awards. The English version of Disaster at the Highland Games also won the Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing at the 2022 New Brunswick Book Awards. ==Bibliography==