Hi, I’m Tish.

Film programmer by day. Fairy tale author by night.

I first picked up a camcorder at 12 years old and never wanted to put it down. I started creating videos before there was a YouTube to put them on, took a film production program in college, then dropped out and took up cake decorating. In 2018, I began at the Canadian Film Institute as Festivals Manager, which expanded to include Film Programmer as we launched the International Film Festival of Ottawa, and I created “The Female Gaze” screening series. 

A lifelong writer, I turned my pen to fiction after my interest in fairy tales got me reading, researching, and creating content about fairy tales and folklore. My first book of fairytale-inspired stories, Ebony, Blood, and Snow, will be published in the spring of 2024. 

I’m a self-realized autistic person who is learning about autism, myself, and unmasking. I love fidget toys, noise-cancelling headphones and earplugs, and working from home. I am queer, asexual, and aromantic. Or, as I like to say- potentially anyone, practically no one. I am a woman and agender; as Glennon Doyle describes, “I cannot find gender in me; I can only find it on me.” I was born on Halloween, which I feel says a lot about me. 

I enjoy solo travel, long walks in the cemetery, and board games. My hobbies include playing Christmas songs on the piano, learning biological classifications on Wikipedia, and organizing everything in Airtable. I live in a city I don’t like and dream of living in a house in the woods on the west coast of Canada.