HOLLIE ADAMS is the author of the novel Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother (NeWest Press, 2015) and the chapbook Deliver Me from Swedish Furniture (Zed Press, 2018). Originally from Windsor, ON, she now lives in Bangor, ME, and teaches Creative Writing and Canadian Literature at the University of Maine.
GARRICK BASSEY is a Vancouver-based photographer who focuses on capturing the spontaneity of urban life. He depicts evocative scenes that unfold within the city’s relaxed, yet engaging, environment.
JOE DAVIES’ short fiction has appeared in The Dublin Review, eFiction India, PRISM international, The Missouri Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain, Rampike and a smattering of other publications. He lives in Peterborough, ON.
DON DOMANSKI (1950 – 2020) was an acclaimed Canadian poet who published nine books of poetry during his lifetime. He received the Governor General’s Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. He also served as the 2005 Ralph Gustafson Chair of Poetry at Malaspina University-College (now Vancouver Island University).
JOE ENNS is a writer, painter and fisheries biologist on Vancouver Island. His writing has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, FreeFall, The Fiddlehead, GUSTS and Portal Magazine, and book reviews in The Malahat Review and The British Columbia Review. Joe has a BA in Creative Writing and a BSc in Ecological Restoration.
SUZANNE GALANTE’s byline has appeared on top websites and in national print media. She was also one of the first paid bloggers. In 2015, she founded Six Hens, a literary magazine of stories about life’s defining moments. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and has been writing as Mother-in-Chief since 2005.
BRITT GILLMAN (she/her) is a writer, librarian and herbalist from Deep River, ON. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Eavesdrop Magazine, The North Renfrew Times, Kerning and elsewhere. She is currently working on a memoir-in-essays that explores familial memories through the folklore of idioms.
PATRICK GRACE is the managing editor of Plenitude Magazine. His first full-length poetry collection, Deviant, is now available (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Follow him on IG: @thepoetpatrick.
TASHA HEFFORD (she/they) is a 100% chill net surfer who lives and relies on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. They are the editor of Discorder and you can read her in filling station, PRISM international, ti-TCR and Vallum. Found online always at tashahefford.com, neopets.com and the 100% dragon science-based MMO (:(: XOXO.
AUSTEN LEE’s writing has appeared in Glass Buffalo, Poetry Is Dead, PRISM international and Grain. She’s been a finalist for the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize and the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and won the 2017 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction. Originally from rural northern Alberta, she lives in Edmonton.
SIMON LOWE is a British writer. He is the author of the novel The World is at War, Again (Elsewhen Press, 2021). His stories have appeared in EX/POST, Breakwater Review, AMP and elsewhere. He has written reviews for Rain Taxi, Full Stop, PRISM international and various other publications. Examples of his work can be found at simonlowebooks.com.
STEVEN MAYE teaches in the English Department at Capilano University. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago and is a former Poetry Editor of Chicago Review.
MARGO McCALL’s fiction has appeared in Pacific Review, Hypertext, Shark Reef and Inlandia, and her non-fiction in Herizons, Lifeboat, blank spaces and the Los Angeles Times. A graduate of the MA writing program at California State University Northridge, she recently returned to her hometown of Winnipeg after four decades in Southern California. More at margomccall.com.
SADIE McCARNEY’s books are Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking (ECW Press, 2023) and Live Ones (University of Regina Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in venues including Best Canadian Poetry, The Walrus, Grain, The Malahat Review and Foglifter, among others.
ESTLIN McPHEE is a writer and librarian who lives on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Estlin is the author of the poetry chapbook Shapeshifters (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2018). Their debut poetry collection is forthcoming in spring 2025 with Brick Books.
OMAR MOUALLEM is a non-fiction author, filmmaker and educator. His book How Muslims Shaped the Americas won the 2022 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, University of King’s College, and Pandemic University School of Writing, an online school he founded in lockdown.
FRANZ JØRGEN NEUMANN’s stories have received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared in The Southern Review, Colorado Review and Water~Stone Review. His past published work can be read at storiesandnovels.com.
JANE OZKOWSKI lives in Prince Edward County, ON, where she splits her time between writing and renovating vintage campers. Her work has been published by VICE, EPOCH, Grain and more. Her YA novel, Watching Traffic, was published by Groundwood Books in 2016.
SHANTELL POWELL is a swamp hag who grew up on the land and off-grid. She’s an alumna of the Banff Centre, the Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University and Roots. Wounds. Words. She writes, wrangles chinchillas, and gets filthy in the woods. https://c.im/@Shanmonster.
JANE SHI lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú-7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her debut poetry collection, echolalia echolalia, will come out in fall 2024 with Brick Books.
ROB TAYLOR is the author of five poetry books, and the editor of the anthologies What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation (Nightwood, 2018) and Best Canadian Poetry 2019 (Biblioasis, 2019). His new collection, Weather, was published in spring 2024 by Gaspereau Press.
