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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

Winner 2022 Fabulist Fiction Prize, Omnidawn Publishing
Coming Autumn 2025

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

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