Issues
No. 225 Winter 2023
Cover · Contents · Book Reviews · Contributor Notes
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BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC is a Canadian poet and translator. Her collection White Sheets was a 2013 Forward Prize finalist; her Apollinaire translation, The Little Auto, won the 2013 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize. Apple Thieves will be published in 2024. JAYMIE CAMPBELL, an Anishnaabe artist from Curve Lake First Nation, explores connection to land and culture through beadwork, writing, fashion, and visual arts. Her practice White Otter Design Co. incorporates traditional techniques with contemporary style, inspired by her Anishnaabe roots, the land, and her family. Instagram: @whiteotterdesignco MICHAEL CHANG’s many collections of poetry include Synthetic Jungle (2023) and Employees Must Wash Hands (forthcoming, 2024). They edit poetry at Fence. Twitter: @mchangpoet MARLENE COOKSHAW is the author of six collections of poems from Brick Books, most recently Lunar Drift (2005) and Mowing (2019). She lives in Sidney, BC. EM DIAL is a queer, Black, Taiwanese, Japanese, and White, chronically ill poet, grower, and educator born and raised in the Bay Area of California, currently living in Toronto. They are a Kundiman Fellow and recipient of the 2020 PEN Canada New Voices Award and the 2019 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award. Instagram: @em_dial Twitter: @em__dial STACEY ENGELS is a writer, teacher, and coach based in New York City. Her plays have been produced and staged as readings in Canada, the US, and Italy. ELIOT GILBERT reviews books. LIZ HARMER is the author of the novels The Amateurs (2018) and Strange Loops (2023). Instagram: @harmerliz Twitter: @lizharmer DAVE HICKEY, the author of two books of poetry, In Lights of a Midnight Plow (2006) and Open Air Bindery (2011), lives in Prince Edward Island. PAULINE HOLDSWORTH is a public radio producer who grew up in central Pennsylvania and now lives in Toronto. Her fiction has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. Twitter: @holdswo DS JOHNSON works in a bowling alley in Atlantic Canada. DONNA KANE’s Orrery was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Asterisms is forthcoming in 2024. She lives in both Rolla, BC in Treaty 8 Territory and Halifax, NS, the ancestral and traditional lands of the Mi’kmaq. EMILY KEDAR is a poet and writer from Toronto. Her work has most recently appeared in Poetry Pause, Willows Wept Review, The Maynard, Living Hyphen, and The Avalon Review. She is currently a merit scholar pursuing an MFA at Pacific University. ARIS KESHAV is a poet and teacher in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal). His writing has appeared in New Quarterly, CV2, and Canadian Notes & Queries, among others, and in his chapbook Taunting August (2022). Instagram: @ambiance.queer LAUREN KIRSHNER’s novel Where We Have to Go (2009) was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Hazlitt and PRISM International. She is Director of Sister Writes, a creative writing program for at‐risk women, and on the faculty in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. JAMI MACARTY teaches creative writing at Simon Fraser University. Jami is the author of The Minuses, winner of the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award—Poetry Arizona, and Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. ANNICK MACASKILL’s poetry collections include Shadow Blight (2022), winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Her fourth book will be published in 2024. She lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. Twitter: @thisisannick CAROL MATTHEWS has published a collection of short stories and five works of literary nonfiction. She lives in Nanaimo. KAYE MILLER’s work can be found in Plenitude, Grain, The Ex-Puritan, Vagabond City Lit, and elsewhere. They are an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph. Instagram: @kaye.mllr Twitter: @kayemllr CASSANDRA MYERS (MY’Z) is a queer, trans, multi-disabled, South-Asian-Italian, counsellor and poet from Tkaronto, ON, and winner of the 2022 National Magazine Gold Award in the Poetry category. Instagram: @cass.myers.poetry STEVE NOYES’s long poem “The Conveyor” will appear soon from The Alfred Gustav Press. He is working on a novel about Marmaduke Pickthall and Yusuf Ali, translators of the Qur’an. He lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. BRENNAN O’TOOLE was born and raised in Ladysmith, BC. His poetry has appeared in Portal and Sea & Cedar. He lives in Vancouver. SIAVASH SAADLOU is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and winner of the 55th Cole Swensen Prize for Translation. His short stories and essays have appeared in Southeast Review, Plenitude, and Asymptote, and his poetry has been anthologized in Odes to Our Undoing (2022) and Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora (2021). SUE SORENSEN teaches at Canadian Mennonite University. Her forthcoming poetry collection is Acutely Life. Other books include The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film (2014) and the novel A Large Harmonium (2011). Instagram: @suesorensen_ca LAURA GEAN STEPHENSON is a Vancouver Island editor, poet, and independent researcher. Instagram: @lauragean MALLORY TATER is the author of the books This Will Be Good (2018) and The Birth Yard (2020). She lives in Vancouver, BC. Twitter: @malatonin KEN VICTOR’s collection We Were Like Everyone Else (2019) was a finalist for the Concordia First Book Prize. His poetry has been published in both the US and Canada. Originally from New England, he makes his home in Quebec’s Gatineau Hills. SUSAN WASSERMAN is a freelance editor living in Vancouver. LISELLE YORKE is a Trinidadian-Canadian artist, who uses poetry to express a desire to rid herself of assumptions and instead dig into people, society, and herself with an untethered sense of curiosity that does not seek neat conclusions. Instagram: @gracefuldegradation JANINE ALYSON YOUNG is a writer from the West Coast of BC. Her short story collection Hideout Hotel (2014) was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. She is the Managing Editor for Nightwood Editions and holds an MFA from UBC. |
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