About

Arria identifies as white (Irish-Canadian, Acadian & Métis), chronically ill & disabled, queer, feminist and faithfully middle-aged. Preferred pronouns are she/they.

Arria’s, work often explores the intersections between chronic illness & disability, ecology, culture and spiritual understanding.

Drawing heavily on speculative and surrealist elements, Arria focuses on creative fiction, primarily in short story form.  She/they have also been known to write a little poetry and non-fiction.  When able Arria works on nurturing a couple of story-babies into fully fledged novels.

Arria feels passionately about writing women-centred worlds, populated by feminist, queer-identified, differently-abled characters, living with divergent, often marginalized, conditions.

*LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I live and work on land that is unceded Omàmìwinì Algonquin Territory in an area with a deep history, which includes multiple Indigenous nations in relationship with it as traditional territory, and continues to be home to different Indigenous people today. 

Thank you to the:
Smiths Falls Land Acknowledgement and those who contributed to it
Lanark County Neighbours for Truth & Reconciliation
native-land.ca
OFL Aboriginal Peoples Caucus