Her childhood dream was to become a writer.  Her first publication at age 12 appeared in the Toronto Gladstone Library collection.  Josephine went on to win the Norma Epstein Prize for Creative Writing in her third year at University College (University of Toronto) for her first collection of poetry.

Josephine 's poems are rooted in and inspired by nature and family, and contain lyricism and depth. Her writing oftentimes reveals an underlying universality and echoes with truth. 

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She has four collections:  Unity, which integrates her photographs, poetry and prose; The Cowichan Series, a Calgary Herald bestseller written on and inspired by the spectacular Cowichan valley on Vancouver Island; In My Father's House, poetry of family and place which was an Alberta Book Publishing Awards bestseller; and The Moon and All Her Faces, launched November, 2025.

Individual poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies on four continents, fifteen countries and in five languages.  She has also published a number of short stories. 

Josephine has extended poetic connections around the globe and is active in numerous poetic societies in Canada and abroad. She is a member of The League of Canadian Poets, Haiku Canada, the Writers' Guild of Alberta, the Alexandra Writers' Center Society, Parkland Poets, the Stroll of Poets, Cultivating Voices Online Live Poetry, and Brownstone Poets.  She enjoys collaborating with artists and writers, and her poetry has been read on stage and in international Zoom rooms, put to music, danced, and integrated into paintings & visual art.  Beyond writing, Josephine has taught numerous workshops both live and online, served as editor, judge, and mentor.  She is an executive member of the board of The Single Onion, Calgary's longest-standing poetry reading series, and has been invited to serve as Poet Laureate for the Bow Valley Ranche Historical Society in Calgary.

I respectfully and humbly acknowledge that I live and create on land traditionally inhabited and traversed for centuries by the Piikani, Siksika, Kainai, Tsuut'ina and Nakota peoples, their antecedents and their descendants.  I am grateful to the peoples who first brought language and poetry to this land,  and engage to embody their values and sense of oneness with the Earth.r.