J TATE BARLOW lives uphill from a Great Lake. She walks a lot. Poems can be found in The Quarantine Review, The New Quarterly, Grain, Vallum (2020 First Place poem), Eastern Iowa Review and other pages. She is a longtime member of a marvellous workshopping group, for which she’s endlessly grateful.

JOELLE BARRON lives on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg of Treaty 3 and the Métis people. Their first book, Ritual Lights (icehouse press, 2018), was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. In 2019, Barron was a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.

SHANNON BARRY is a South African-born, Canadian-based writer, artist and cryptid. She’s taking her MLitt at the University of Glasgow, and her writing was most recently published in FreeFall and New Forum magazine. Her artwork has been featured in a festival, a gallery and a magazine, respectively.

COURTNEY BATES-HARDY is the author of House of Mystery (ChiZine Publications, 2016) and Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have been published in Room, This Magazine, CAROUSEL, Grain, PRISM international and Best Canadian Poetry 2019, among others. She is working on her second poetry collection.

RICHARD BRAIT’s poetry has appeared in The Queen’s Quarterly, EVENT, The New Quarterly, Exile Quarterly and The Dalhousie Review. He was shortlisted for Fish Anthology’s Lockdown Prize in 2020, the Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Prize and the Ontario Poetry Society’s Provoked by Places Prize in 2022, and is the 2021 winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition.

LOUISE CARSON lives in a bungalow surrounded by gardens in rural Quebec. She paid it off by teaching music, and now she just writes. She loves Indian food and pain au chocolat. Her most recent books are: Dog Poems (Aelus House, 2022), A Clutter of Cats (Signature Editions, 2021) and Third Circle (land/sea press, 2022).

CAROLYN CHUNG’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in This Magazine, PRISM international, Riddle Fence, Broken Pencil, The Puritan and FreeFall, among others. She was one of three short fiction finalists for the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She lives in Toronto.

WADE COMER is a photographic artist and a maker of things. His core belief is that there is beauty everywhere, and that photography has the power to make the ordinary extraordinary. Through photography and visual arts, Wade investigates two main concepts: how we see, and what we leave behind. www.wadecomer.com.

NANCY JO CULLEN’s poetry and fiction have appeared in The Puritan, Grain, filling Station, Plenitude, Prairie Fire, Arc, This Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, Room, The Journey Prize and Best Canadian Stories 2012. Her fourth poetry collection is Nothing Will Save Your Life, available now from Wolsak & Wynn.

JULIEN FAROUT was born in Montreal. He studied at McGill University and teaches French. He has published short stories in Montreal magazines. He now lives in Vancouver and is working on a novel.

SUSAN GLICKMAN grew up in Montreal and lives in Toronto, where she works as a freelance editor. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently What We Carry (Signal Editions, 2019); seven novels, most recently The Discovery of Flight (Inanna, 2018); and two works of non-fiction.

KAGAN GOH is an award-winning filmmaker, spoken word poet, playwright, actor, mental health advocate and activist. In 2012, Select Books in Singapore published his poetic memoir, Who Let in the Sky? In Goh’s follow-up memoir, Surviving Samsara, he recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness.

KARIN HEDETNIEMI is a writer, poet and street photographer from Vancouver Island who is inspired by nature, place, spirituality and being human. Her creative work is published in Prairie Fire, Hinterland, Parentheses and other journals. In 2020, Karin won the Royal City Literary Arts Society’s non-fiction contest. Find her at AGoldenHour.com.

NANCY HUGGETT is a settler descendant who lives, writes and caregives in Ottawa, on the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. She has work out or forthcoming in Reformed Journal, Literary Mama, Syncopation, (Re) An Ideas Journal, Prairie Fire, Pangyrus, Waterwheel Review, intima and Poetry Pause.

SAMANTHA JONES lives and writes on Treaty 7 territory in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary). She is a white settler and Black Canadian, and grew up in Nova Scotia. Her writing appears in This Magazine, Room, Grain, CV2, Watch Your Head, GeoHumanities and elsewhere. Her visual poetry chapbook, Site Orientation, was published by the Blasted Tree in 2022.

NORA KELLY (she/her) is an oil painter, illustrator and muralist in Montreal. In 2017–2018 she apprenticed with Street Art Chilango in Mexico City and has since painted murals for businesses and residences across North America. She has done editorial illustration for the Writer’s Union of Canada, The Tyee, Capital Daily, PRISM international, Vallum and others. She lives with her dog Squid and plays in a country band.

Y.S. LEE’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Room, Rattle, The Literary Review of Canada, The Malahat Review, Arc and Australian Book Review. Her fiction includes the award-winning YA mystery series The Agency (Candlewick Press, 2009–2014), which was translated into six languages. She lives in Katarokwi.

ANGELA LONG is a freelance journalist and multi-genre writer. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Sun Magazine, Utne Reader and Poetry Ireland Review. She’s the author of two books, Observations from Off the Grid (Libros Libertad, 2010) and Every Day We Disappear (Radiant Press, 2018).

NADJA LUBIW-HAZARD is a writer and a veterinarian. Her work has been published in Understorey, Room, Canthius, The Fiddlehead, The Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly and more. Her first novel, The Nap-Away Motel, was published by Palimpsest Press in 2019. She lives in Toronto with her wife and their two adult daughters.

TANIS MacDONALD is the author of seven books, including Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female (Wolsak & Wynn, 2022) and Mobile: poems (Book*hug, 2019). Her essay ‘Mondegreen Girls’ won The Malahat Review’s 2021 Open Season Award for creative non-fiction. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario, as a grateful guest on the traditional territories of the Neutral, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples.

RHONA McADAM is a poet, holistic nutri- tionist and food writer in Victoria. Her books include Cartography and Ex-Ville, both poetry, and Digging the City, an urban agriculture manifesto. Her latest poetry collection, Larder, is chock-full of food- and eco-themed poems.

SHANE NEILSON is a poet, physician and critic. ‘ Differential’ will appear in What to Feel, How to Feel from Palimpsest Press in 2025. This spring, Neilson will publish Saving with Great Plains.

MICHAEL ONSANDO is a consumer of knowledge; writing continues to be a by-product. See more of his work on michael.co.ke.

AVERY QURASHI (she/her) is a scatterbrained MA in the English department at UBC. Currently living in ‘Vancouver,’ she enjoys soup, singing and riding the SeaBus.

DEEPA RAJAGOPALAN won the 2021 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award for ‘Peacocks of Instagram,’ the title story of her short story collection. Her writing has appeared in Room, The Quarantine Review and the anthology The Unpublished City, Volume II (Book*hug Press, 2018).

NATASHA SANDERS-KAY writes from Coast Salish land in Burnaby, BC. Her work has appeared in Poetry Is Dead, subTerrain, PRISM international, untethered and online with Spacing and MONO. Her chapbook poem Postmodern Mutt was published by Light Factory Publications in 2017 and is available for free at ReadingtheMigrationLibrary.com.

SUSAN SANFORD BLADES’s debut novel Fake it So Real (Nightwood Editions, 2020) won the 2021 ReLit Award in the novel category and was shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ 2021 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She has fiction forthcoming in The Malahat Review and Gulf Coast.

NICK THRAN’s latest book is If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display (Nightwood Editions, 2023).

RUTH E. WALKER loves the broad landscapes novels provide, but occasionally challenges herself to write in the demanding confines of poetry and short fiction. An eclectic writer, she follows inspiration, characters and questions to the page. Her work is represented by Ali McDonald at 5 Otter Literary. Ruth lives, writes and edits in southern Ontario.

WENDY WESEEN has created visual art most of her life. Fifteen years ago, when she acquired osteoarthritis, she began writing travel memoir, personal essays (published by The Globe and Mail), short stories and poetry. She obtained degrees in humanities, social work and fine art. She incorporates diverse themes that often include playful sociological commentaries into both her art and writing.

JENNY HEIJUN WILLS is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir (McClelland & Stewart, 2019). It won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best Book. Wills is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, where she is also Chancellor’s Research Chair.

EUN YOON lives in Chicago, where she is an MFA student at Northwestern University.

LAURA ZACHARIN is the author of Common Brown House Moths (Frontenac House, 2019), longlisted for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Award. In 2018 she was the recipient of University of Toronto’s Marina Nemat Award for Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, CV2, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Arc, FreeFall and other Canadian literary journals. She lives in Toronto.