MANAHIL BANDUKWALA is the author of MONUMENT (Brick Books, 2022) and co-creator of Women Wide Awake (Mawenzi House, 2023). She is a multi-genre creator, and the co-founder of Reth aur Reghistan, a project exploring folklore from Pakistan and interpreting it through poetry and sculpture. manahilbandukwala.com.

BILLY-RAY BELCOURT is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of four books: This Wound is a World (Frontenac, 2017), NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field (House of Anansi, 2019), A History of My Brief Body (Hamish Hamilton, 2020) and A Minor Chorus (Hamish Hamilton, 2022).

MONI BRAR was born in rural Punjab and raised on the land of the Tse’Khene peoples. She is the recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, the winner of The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her work appears in Best Canadian Poetry 2023 (Biblioasis).

KATE CAYLEY has published three poetry collections and two short story collections, and won the Trillium Book Award, an O. Henry Prize and the Mitchell Prize for Poetry. Her plays have been performed in Canada, the US and the UK.

CORINNA CHONG’s first novel, Belinda’s Rings, was published by NeWest Press in 2013, and her short fiction has appeared in magazines across Canada. Her debut collection of short stories, The Whole Animal, was published in 2023 by Arsenal Pulp Press. She lives in Kelowna, BC and teaches at Okanagan College.

GUY ELSTON’s poems have been included in the Literary Review of Canada, Vallum, periodicities and other journals. His first chapbook is Automatic Sleep Mode (Anstruther Press, 2023).

GRACE is a settler living in Ontario on the traditional and treaty territories of the Anishinabek, now known as the Chippewa Tri-Council comprised of the Beausoleil, Rama and Georgina Island First Nations. Her debut poetry collection, The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak (Guernica Editions, 2021) was a Lambda Award finalist. Find her on Instagram @thrillandgrace.

HENRY HEAVYSHIELD (he/him) is a Blackfoot reader and writer from Kainai (Blood Tribe First Nation) in Treaty 7 territory. His work has previously appeared in Joyland, C Magazine, Kimiwan Zine, The Ex-Puritan and Riddle Fence. He would like to thank the continued generosity and support of his family: nitsíniiyi’taki (thank you).

KYRA KAISLA was raised in Vancouver and in various parts of rural British Columbia. Since 2018, she has lived in Central Europe, dividing her time between Vienna, rural Bavaria and the train. When not studying or working, she likes to make music, work on her radio show or go for a very slow stroll.

MEHDI M. KASHANI lives and writes in Toronto. His fiction has recently appeared in Epiphany, Southern Humanities Review and Post Road, among others. His work has been a finalist for Canada’s National Magazine Awards and has also been short-listed for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Visit mehdimkashani.com.

KATE KENNEDY is a poet, editor and reviewer. Originally from Lillooet, BC, she now lives in Victoria.

PINKI LI makes dances and poems on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She teaches somatic voice and writes for video games. In her spare time, she works on her broken Cantonese. @pinki_yinki.

PASHA MALLA is the author, most recently, of Kill the Mall, a novel that Goodreads reviewers have claimed is ‘ridiculous,’ ‘not worth engaging with,’ ‘meritless and completely idiotic,’ ‘not particularly enjoyable,’ ‘irritating,’ ‘impossible to follow,’ and ‘the worst book ever.’ Coach House Books will publish the sequel, All You Can Kill, in Fall 2024.

CARMEN FAYE MATHES is an associate professor of English at McGill University and the author of Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation (Stanford University Press, 2022).

CASSIDY McFADZEAN is the author of three books of poetry including Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review and PRISM international. She won Silver at the 2020 National Magazine Awards for her poems published in EVENT 48.1.

STEVE McORMOND’s most recent collection of poetry is Reckon (Brick Books, 2018). His work has appeared in Poetry Daily and been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry in English. He lives in Toronto. Visit stevemcormond.com.

MALENA MOKHOVIKOVA fled Russia as a refugee in 2012 and now studies psychology and creative writing at the University of Toronto. She focuses on humanitarian work in her free time, serving as a member of the Prime Minister’s Youth Council and IRCC’s Youth Advisory Group. Her creative work ex- plores identity and finding ‘ home.’

FAWN PARKER is a Giller Prize-nominated novelist and poet and a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick. Her story ‘Feed Machine’ was long-listed for the 2020 Journey Prize and her essay ‘The Prescription’ was long-listed for the 2022 National Magazine Awards. Fawn’s auto-novel, Hi, it’s me, will be out with M&S in 2024.

JADEN TSAN is a designer and illustrator based in Calgary. Since graduating from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022, Jaden has completed several illustration, editorial design and graphic design projects. Her work is inspired by popular culture and the joyful nature of childhood.

CHRISTINA TURNER holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto with her family.

BEN von JAGOW is a Canadian writer and photographer living in Paris. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Canadian Literature, Queen’s Quarterly, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead and the Literary Review of Canada. His debut poetry collection, Goalie, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2025. Visit benvj.com.

ISABELLA WANG is the author of the chapbook On Forgetting a Language, and her full-length debut, Pebble Swing, was short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She’s been short-listed for Arc’s Poem of the Year, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize and The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest. She directs her own non-profit editing and mentorship program, 4827 Revise Revision St.

ERIN WILSON’s poems have appeared in Grain, Vallum, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, CV2 and Prairie Fire. Her second collection, Blue (whose title poem won a Pushcart Prize), is about depression, grief and the transformative power of art. She lives a small life on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory in northern Ontario.

TERENCE YOUNG lives in Victoria. His most recent book is a collection of poetry, Smithereens (Harbour Publishing, 2021).