 McInnis' work has appeared in a variety of journals, including "The Malahat Review", "The New Quarterly", "Event", and "Room of One's Own".McInnis has published widely in magazines in Canada and is a past winner of a CBC literary award and the Ottawa Book Award.She joined the faculty of Algonquin College in 2006, after working as a policy analyst in the Canadian federal government where she focused on the publishing industries in Canada.