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Hey there! I’m Arria.
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I feel passionately about writing women-centred worlds, populated by feminist, queer-identified, differently-abled characters, living within divergent, often marginalized, conditions.
My work tends to thrive in the intersection between eco feminism, cultural change, and spiritual understanding.
Drawing heavily on speculative and surrealist elements, I focus on creative fiction, primarily in short story form. I also write a little poetry and non-fiction.
I work on longer format projects as I can.
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Fiction & Poetry
Short story, published by The Bangalore Review
Flowers & Stars
Coming to Does it Have Pockets, June 2025
Negative Space
Non-Fiction
Thought piece, published by The Ottawa Citizen
Imagine Canada
Reflection on disabled living/writing, published by The Humm
Living In Between Spaces
Advanced Praise for Descent
2022 Fabulist Fiction Winner
Coming Summer/Fall 20025,
Omnidawn Publishing
Descent is absolutely captivating. Within the first few lines of the story, you will be swirled into a world of rich imagery and intrigue.
Cindy Ashton
award winning TV Host, Singer, Actor, creator of “Liberated” and founder of Brave Voices Rising
Rich and entrancing, Descent peels back the layers of growing up “other”—disabled, neurodiverse, marginalized in any way–and lays them bare on a riverbank.
Rebecca Burke
editor of In Between Spaces: An Anthology of Disabled Writers
This confronting tale will have you rooting for its warm and complex protagonist while also reflecting on broader themes of bodily autonomy, disability justice, grief, eco-liberation, and the many routes to resistance and survival.
Raechel Anne Jolie
author of Rust Belt Femme
Throughout the story, with delicate and precise language and a vivid sense of place, Deepwater explores the mentality of the colonizer, the meaning of wildness, and the perspective of the non-human living beings in our world.
Michelle Ruiz Keil
judge’s citation for Omnidawn’s Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest and author of Summer in the City of Roses
A tale that is both pilgrimage and revelation, filled with horror and also renewal, Sona’s journey is one that invites us to re-imagine what it means to belong to a body—and from there, to belong to the world.
—Amanda Leduc, author of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Amanda Leduc
author of Wild Life (upcoming), The Centaur’s Wife & Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Lyrical, earthy, somatic, even allegorical, Descent shines a relentless light on the ways we objectify others, the illusions we harbour of separateness (even from the natural world), and the irrevocable harm we may do as a result.
Brenda Misson
author of the literary thriller Tell Anna She’s Safe & the memoir Tumblehome: One Woman’s Canoeing Adventures in the Divine Near Wilderness
…like any good tale dropping breadcrumbs, Deepwater pulls the reader in on an irresistible ride to the fantastical end. Well done!
Lorrie Potvin
author of Horses in the Sand & First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, and winner of Sisters in Crime 2024 PRIDE Award for emerging 2SLGBTQIA+ writers
In Between Spaces
An anthology of disabled writers
An amazing collection of fiction, poetry & non-fiction written and produced entirely by people with disabilities.
Featuring Arria’s story “Undertow
Available through your favourite bookstore
