JOHN BARTON lives in Victoria. His books include We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos (Palimpsest, 2019) and The Essential Douglas LePan (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2019), which won a 2020 eLit Award. His 12th book of poetry, Lost Family (Signal, 2020), was nominated for the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry.
ERIN BEDFORD is a poet and novelist. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and her short work has appeared in The Temz Review, Juniper, Map Literary, Train, GUEST, the lickety-split and Catamaran Literary Reader. In April 2022, she founded Pinhole Poetry, a digital journal of poetry and pinhole photography.
CHRIS BOSE lives in the wilds of secwepemcullucw in a cave, writing on walls and hunting mastodon as his ancestors did for thousands of years. He is part of the last of old wild Indian society and waits for his diorama to be completed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization so he can join his ancestors. He is Nlakapamux/Secwepemc and spends his time in Kamloops, BC. chrisboseland.com.
ALISON BRAID’s work has won the 2023 Okanagan Short Story Contest and been shortlisted for the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize. She is the author of the chapbook Little Hunches (Anstruther Press, 2020). Recent work has appeared in West Branch, Grain, The New Quarterly and PRISM international.
ROB BUDDE teaches creative writing at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He has published eight books (poetry, novels, interviews and short fiction). His most recent books are declining america (BookThug, 2009) and Dreamland Theatre (Caitlin Press, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
LARA EL MEKAUI is a PhD candidate in English and an instructor at the University of Waterloo. She studies the complicated connotations behind being a person in the world; her dissertation explores the trauma of forced migration and issues of belonging in Black and Palestinian diaspora contemporary transnational fiction, respectively.
JAIME FORSYTHE is the author of the poetry collections I Heard Something (Anvil Press, 2018) and Sympathy Loophole (Mansfield Press, 2012). She lives in Halifax/Kjipuktuk.
CAITLIN GALWAY is the author of the novel Bonavere Howl (Guernica Editions, 2019). Her publications include Gloria Vanderbilt’s Carter V. Cooper anthology, House of Anansi’s The Broken Social Scene Project (selected by Feist), The Ex-Puritan as the 2020 Thomas Morton Prize winner, and CBC Books as the Stranger than Fiction Prize winner (selected by Heather O’Neill).
CONNOR HARRISON’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Evergreen Review and Literary Hub, among others. He lives in Montreal and is working on a novel.
ELEANOR HOSKINS reads on the unceded ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She hopes to write more often and plant more trees.
MEGHAN KEMP-GEE is the author of The Animal in the Room (Coach House Books, 2023). She also co-created the webcomic Contested Strip, soon to be a graphic novel, One More Year. She lives somewhere between North Vancouver and Fredericton, where she is a PhD candidate at UNB. Find her on Twitter @MadMollGreen.
D.A. LOCKHART’s recent work includes Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli (Frontenac House, 2021). He has been shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, the ReLit Award and others. He is pùkuwànkoamimëns of the Moravian of Thames First Nation, and resides at Waawiiyaatanong and Pelee Island, where he is publisher of Urban Farmhouse Press and poetry editor at The Windsor Review.
KATIE MARTÍ is a Mexican-Canadian poet and short story writer. Her work was longlisted for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize and has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including EVENT, CV2 and PRISM international. Born in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and raised in Mi’kma’ki/New Brunswick, she lives on unceded lək̓ʷəŋən territory in Victoria.
MARCIE McCAULEY has published reviews, fiction and essays in Canadian, American and British magazines and journals, in print and online. Her reviews have appeared recently in CAROUSEL, Herizons, The Chicago Review of Books, The Temz Review and World Literature Today. Visit her at buriedinprint.com and marciemccauley.com.
CONNOR McCRACKEN is a video producer and photographer focused mostly in the travel and tourism industries. His scope of work has covered nearly all six continents.
CATHERINE OWEN is a Vancouverite who lives in Edmonton. She’s published 15 collections of poetry and prose, most recently Riven (ECW, 2020) and the anthology Locations of Grief (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020). Her next book, Moving to Delilah, will be out from Freehand Books in 2024. She edits and writes the blog Marrow Reviews, and hosts the podcast Ms Lyric’s Poetry Outlaws.
MIRANDA PEARSON is the author of five books of poetry, including Rail, published in 2019 by McGill Queen’s University Press. Two previous books, Harbour and The Fire Extinguisher, were finalists for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She has recently completed a new collection entitled Bridestones.
ABU BAKR SADIQ is a Nigerian poet and author of Leaked Footages (University of Nebraska Press, 2024). He won the 2023 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the 2022 Ignyte Award for Best Speculative Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2023 Evaristo Prize. He has published in Boston Review, The Fiddlehead, Mizna, FIYAH, Palette Poetry, Uncanny Magazine, Augur, Fantasy Magazine and elsewhere.
NUPQU ʔAK·ǂAM̓ |TROY SEBASTIAN is a writer from the Ktunaxa community of ʔaq̓am. He is a doctoral student, Vanier Scholar and sessional instructor in the University of Victoria’s Department of Writing. His writing has appeared in Brick, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and The Walrus.
KAREEM TAYYAR’s Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2022.
FRED WAH’s most recent project is a collaboration with Rita Wong about the Columbia River, beholden: a poem as long as the river. Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962 –1991 was published in 2015 and Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1–170 in 2020. High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, An Interactive Poem, is available at highmuckamuck.ca. He lives in Vancouver and on Kootenay Lake.
RUSSELL WALLACE is an award-winning composer, producer and traditional singer from the St’at’imc Nation (Salish). In 2022, he was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Arts and Music Award in in recognition of his music and contributions to arts and culture in British Columbia. His composition ‘Journey’ was performed at Biennale Arte 2022 in Venice this past September.
MONICA WANG has writing in Electric Literature, The Malahat Review, Banshee, and other publications. She was shortlisted for the 2022 W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize while completing a creative writing MA at the University of Exeter. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, she grew up in Taipei and Vancouver, and has spent the last six years in Europe.
RAYNE WEINSTEIN is a Jewish writer who resides in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her short fiction has been published in Room, Solstice, FreeFall and Cloud Lake Literary.
AMIE WHITTEMORE (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press) and Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books, 2023). She was the 2020 – 2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, TN, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University and directs MTSU Write, a from-home creative writing mentorship program.
PATRICIA YOUNG has published one collection of short fiction (Biblioasis) and 11 collections of poetry. She lives in Victoria.
