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No. 229 Winter 2024
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Cover · Contents · Book Reviews · Contributor Notes
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ATEFEH ASADI is a writer, editor, songwriter, and translator from Tehran, Iran. She has lived since December 2022 as the ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) resident in Hanover, Germany. She received the 2021 Hannah Arendt Scholarship. MANAHIL BANDUKWALA is the author of Heliotropia (2024) and MONUMENT (2022). manahilbandukwala.com JOCKO BENOIT is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Real Estate Deals of the Apocalypse (2020). His poetry has appeared or will appear in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Literary Review of Canada, QWERTY and elsewhere. He is a Cape Bretoner splitting his time between Washington, DC and Calgary. RONNA BLOOM is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom, introduced by Phil Hall (2023). A new collection, In a Riptide, will be out in 2025. KATE BURNHAM’s work has been featured on CBC Radio and in Miracle Monacle. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the U of King’s College. She is the 2021 recipient of the H. R. Percy Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Toronto. SHAUNA DEATHE is an emerging poet whose work has appeared in ARC Poetry and Room. She lives in Fredericton, NB, where she completed her MA in creative writing at the U of New Brunswick, and now works in publishing. STACEY ENGELS lives and works in New York City. Her plays have been produced and staged as readings in Canada, the US, and Italy. SUSAN GILLIS has lived on the east and west coasts of Canada and now makes her home in rural Ontario, on unceded traditional Algonquin territory. Her most recent book is Yellow Crane (2018). A member of the collaborative group Yoko’s Dogs, Susan also works as an editor and mentor. susangillis.ca MARCEL GOH, born in Singapore, grew up in Leduc, AB. His fiction has appeared in Existere, Prairie Journal, and Ricepaper. “The Vigil” (first published in Ricepaper) was chosen for Best Canadian Stories 2025. He lives in Montreal, where he studies mathematics at McGill University. JENNIFER GOSSOO, a fourth-generation Métis woman, lives and writes on the traditional unceded territories of the Silyx (Okanagan) people. She holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of Victoria. Her work has been published by Creative Communications, Morning Rain Publishing, and the BC Métis Federation. REBECCA RUTH GOULD is a poet, writer, and translator. Her co-translation with Kayvan Tahmasebian of Hormoz Shahdadi’s Night of Terror received a PEN Presents award from English PEN in 2023. Her own books include The Persian Prison Poem (2021) and Erasing Palestine (2023). DANIELLE JANESS is a poet, performer, and teaching artist living on Duwamish land. She is the author of The Milk of Amnesia (2021) and co-author of A Criminal Waste of Time, a collective theatre creation with Out of the Box Productions. EVE JOSEPH lives in Victoria and works on the unceded territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən People. Her three books of poetry were nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. In the Slender Margin (2014) won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Quarrels (2018) won the 2019 Griffin Prize. JAKE KENNEDY is currently collaborating—with writer Paul Hong—on a prose work based on a series of mid-twentieth-century Southwestern Ontario farm journals. SNEHA MADHAVAN-REESE is the author of two poetry collections, Observing the Moon (2015) and Elementary Particles (2023). She serves on the editorial board of Canthius magazine and lives with her family in Ottawa. MARCIE MCCAULEY writes and reads in Tkaronto (Toronto) and N’Swakamok (Sudbury) on the homelands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabeg and Wendat. Her work has appeared in Canadian, British, and US periodicals. buriedinprint.com STEVE MCORMOND is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). His work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry. He lives in Toronto. JAY MILLER is a poet, translator, technical writer, book reviewer, and blogger who lives in Montreal. Bibelotages.com SHANE NEILSON is a poet, physician, and critic from New Brunswick. “Chasing Goffman” is part of a larger work of lyric nonfiction concerning neurofatherhood. JOHN O’NEILL’s story collection Goth Girls of Banff was a finalist for Trade Fiction Book of the Year (2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards). Recently, he won first prize in the Prairie Fire/McNally Robinson Poetry Contest. He lives in West Grey, ON. SHANNON QUINN, the author of three collections of poetry, has published in Grain, CV2, Prairie Fire, ARC Poetry, subTerrain, and Best Canadian Poetry 2025. She lives in Tkaronto. NATALIE RICE is the author of the poetry collection Scorch (2023) and the chapbook 26 Visions of Light (2020). Her second collection will appear in 2025. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives on the south shore of Nova Scotia. YASMIN RODRIGUES is an author who was born in the Caribbean and has spent her life studying the developing world. She is working on a novel that culminates in the British invasion of Guyana in 1953. JANE SHI lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəəm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her debut poetry collection is echolalia echolalia (2024). SUE SINCLAIR has published six books of poetry, most recently Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (2022), which won the NB Book Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize. She lives on Wolastoqiyik Territory in Fredericton, where she teaches creative writing and English at the U of New Brunswick. LAURA ST. PIERRE lives on Treaty 6 Territory with her child, husband, and dogs. Her home has a studio and a native plant garden and refuge for birds and insects. She studied fine arts at the U of Alberta and Concordia University, where she completed an MFA. Her practice includes photography, video, installation, and public art. NEIL SURKAN is the author of two poetry collections, Unbecoming and On High, and three chapbooks: Ruin, Their Queer Tenderness, and Super, Natural. STUART TRENHOLM is an Associate Professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, where he holds a Canada Research Chair and studies seeing and not seeing. This is his first foray into fiction writing. OWEN TORREY’s writing can be found in Literary Review of Canada, Maisonneuve, Geist, Gulf Coast, and Best Canadian Poetry. He has been nominated for the CBC Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, and awarded the Roger Conant Hatch Prize. Owen is an MFA candidate in poetry at Brown University. PAULA TURCOTTE is the author of the chapbook Permutations (2024) and a poetry editor at MAYDAY. Her work has been published in Canthius, PRISM International, and elsewhere, and she was the 2023 People’s Choice winner in CV2’s 2-Day Poetry Contest. She lives in Moh’kins’stis (Calgary). PAUL DB WATKINS is Professor of English at Vancouver Island U. His creative and academic work focuses on intersections of improvisation, poetry, and sound. His first book, Soundin’ Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship, is forthcoming. |
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