RONNA BLOOM is the author of six books of poetry. The More (2017) was longlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. She developed the Poet in Residence program at Sinai Health, and is Poet in Community to the University of Toronto.

CARLEE BOUILLON writes poems that frequently turn out sounding like the overheard monologue of someone having a pleasant and introspective mushroom trip. Find her words in This Side of West, Femme Handbook, Grain, and elsewhere.

YUAN CHANGMING co-edits Poetry Pacific in Vancouver. He has published eleven chapbooks (most recently LIMERENCE) and his work has appeared in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008–17). He served on the poetry jury for Canada’s 44th National Magazine Awards.

ZACHERY COOPER’s writing can be found in The New Quarterly, Queen’s Quarterly, filling Station, The Quilliad, PRISM international, and EVENT. He lives in Nanaimo, BC.

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 USA, and Italy. Her nonfiction has appeared in Sundog Lit, Assay, and Nowhere Magazine, among others.

AVA FATHI, an emerging writer and undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, is a proud Iranian-Canadian and second-generation immigrant dedicated to preserving and translating the Iranian literary tradition.

JENNY FERGUSON is Michif and white, an activist, a feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice with a PhD. She believes writing, teaching, and beading are political acts. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, her debut YA novel, is forthcoming in 2022.

LISE GASTON is the author of Cityscapes in Mating Season (2017). Her work has been published in Canada, the USA, and Ireland. She lives in Vancouver.

ELISABETH GILL has been published by the CBC, Canadian Notes & Queries, and The Inman Review. She was the editor of Encore Literary Magazine. She lives in Montreal.

LAURIE D. GRAHAM currently lives in Nogojiwanong, in Mississauga Anishinaabeg territory, where she is a writer, editor, and publisher of Brick magazine. Her books are Rove and Settler Education. Fast Commute will be out in 2022.

MARISA GRIZENKO is reviews editor for EVENT and writes Plain Pleasures, a monthly online newsletter about books. She is based in Vancouver, the unceded territory of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

DANIELLE HUBBARD’s poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Antigonish Review, and Prairie Fire. She spends her time cycling, running, working as a librarian, and falling in love under disastrous circumstances. Her goal is to continue all but one of the above.

ROZINA JESSA is an Indo-Canadian writer. She studied Theatre, Acting, and Creative Writing at UBC, and has been published in North America and the UK under her pen name. Her creative work explores the truths behind being a brown woman.

LAUREN KIRSHNER’s fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in various publications, including PRISM international, ELLE CANADA, Room, and THIS. Her novel,
Where We Have to Go (2012), was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award.

ALLISON LASORDA’s writing can be found in Lighthouse, Southern Humanities Review, and Scientific American.

Y. S. LEE’s poetry won Arc Poetry’s July 2020 Award of Awesomeness and was shortlisted for Australia’s 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Her fiction includes the award-winning YA mystery series The Agency. She lives in Katarokwi (Kingston, ON).

SUE J. LEVON is a first-generation immigrant residing in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.

BEN LOF’s fiction has appeared in various literary magazines. He won the Howard O’Hagan Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award and a Western Magazine Award. He lives in Edmonton on Treaty 6 Territory.

MICAELA MAFTEI lives, works, and writes in Victoria, BC.

SARA MANG is a storyteller from Labrador. Her work has appeared in journals in Canada, the USA, and the UK. She attended the Governor General’s Literary Awards ceremony as an emerging literary artist in Canada.

CHRISTINA MANSUETI was born and raised and currently resides in the Cowichan Valley. She is a PhD candidate in Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland, focusing on gender representation and comedy as a rhetorical discourse.

CASSIDY MCFADZEAN is an MFA candidate at Brooklyn College. Her fiction has appeared in carte blanche, This Magazine, Best Canadian Stories 2020, and PRISM international, where she was runner-up for the Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction.

STEVE MCORMOND is the author of four books of poetry. His most recent is Reckon (2018). He was the recipient of The Malahat Review’s P. K. Page Founders’ Award for Poetry in 2018. He lives in Toronto.

CAITLYN NG MAN CHUEN is currently a graduate student in Toronto, where she was born and raised. She writes with a commitment to memory, perception, permanence, and the ways in which they diverge.

VINH NGUYEN is an educator, writer, and a non-fiction editor at The New Quarterly.

LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN LETS’LO:TSELTUN, of Coast Salish descent,
graduated from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Influential as both artist and activist, Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun merges traditional iconography with representations of the environment and the history of colonization, resulting in his powerful, contemporary imagery.

NAT ROBINSON is an American poet and fiction writer who teaches elementary school. She has lived mostly in the American South, but hopes to tour the world.

DEBORAH TORKKO teaches in the Department of English at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo.

SEBASTIEN WEN earned an MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. He won the 2019 E. J. Pratt Medal in Poetry and the 2017 Avie Bennett Emerging Writers scholarship. His work has appeared in Arc Poetry, Vallum, and Prairie Fire.

CATHLEEN WITH is a Vancouver writer who is appreciative of all the writers who gave her reading solace during the global panini. Thank you.