Issues
No. 230 Spring 2025
Cover · Contents · Book Reviews · Contributor Notes
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Instagram: @thecoldfield H FELIX CHAU BRADLEY is a writer, editor, and book reviewer living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). They are the author of Personal Attention Roleplay (2021). Their recent writing can be found in carte blanche, The Ex-Puritan, Montreal Review of Books, Words without Borders, Xtra, and elsewhere. They are currently writing a novel. Instagram: @notesofacrocodile X: @notesofacroc LUCAS CRAWFORD’s books include Muster Points (2023), winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry. As part of his University of Alberta (Augustana) position, he leads “Rewriting Ourselves,” a collaborative offering poetry workshops in Alberta psychiatric wards. In January 2025, he was a Musician in Residence at the Banff Centre. JAMIE DOPP teaches Canadian Literature at the University of Victoria. His books include two novels, three collections of poetry, and the critical study Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game (2024). JANNIE STAFFORD EDWARDS writes from Amiskwacîwâskahikan / Edmonton on Treaty 6 / Métis Region #4. She has published three collections of poetry and two poetry chapbooks. Her “Velvet Deathtrap” won Geist’s 17th Annual Postcard Story contest. Website: www.jannieedwards.ca Instagram: @jannieedwards8 JONATHAN FOCHT’s most recent work is forthcoming in the Literary Review of Canada and Queen’s Quarterly. He lives in Montréal. ALANA FRIEND LETTNER is an essayist, poet, and journalist living on K’ómoks territory. Her work has appeared in PRISM International, The Tyee, and most recently in Fire Season III, an anthology of creative responses to the impacts of wildfire. She holds an MFA from the University of Victoria. MICHAEL GOODFELLOW’s third collection of poems, Meadow Work, will be published in 2026. He lives in Nova Scotia. Website: www.michaelgoodfellow.ca Instagram: @campfirenotes GRACE is a settler living in Ontario on the traditional and Treaty territory of the Anishinabek People, now known as the Chippewa Tri-Council comprised of the Beausoleil, Rama, and Georgina Island First Nations. Her debut collection of poetry is The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak (2021). Website: www.grace-writes.com Instagram: @thrillandgrace Bluesky: @thrillandgrace PATRICK GRACE is a writer and teacher from Vancouver. His debut poetry collection, Deviant, was published in 2024. Instagram: @thepoetpatrick SGidGang.Xaal / SHOSHANNAH GREENE, born and raised on Haida Gwaii, is a member of the Staawaas X̲aaydaG̲aay, from Hlkinil llnagaay (Cumshewa village). She pursued a Bachelor of Media Arts at Emily Carr University, with a major in handdrawn animation. Her interests having shifted from classical animation to classical Haida formline, she now works as a full-time artist, with a creative practice focused on Haida design, both traditional and digital painting, and illustration. Instagram: @thecatking UMMA HABIBA is a poet and theatre activist from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her debut book of poetry is Ghashe Ghashe Roktoful (Blood Flowers in the Grass, 2022). QUAMRUL HASSAN is an MFA candidate in creative writing and translation at the U of Arkansas. His poems and translations have been published or are forthcoming in Agni, Los Angeles Review, The Heron’s Nest, Prachya Review, and The Daily Star. X: @Quamrul_Hassan DANIELLE HUBBARD lives in Kelowna, BC, where she works as the CEO of the Okanagan Regional Library. Her poetry has appeared in CV2, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, and Geist, among other places. PW JARUNGPITERAH is working on her first poetry collection exploring themes of childhood, memory, and family. BARBARA BRUHIN KENNEY’s poetry is inspired by participation in The Inishlacken Project, an artists’ residency, curated by Rosie McGurran, on an abandoned island off the west coast of Ireland, the home of Kenney’s ancestors. She has an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives in Rockwood, ON. Website: www.barbarabruhinkenney.com MICHAEL KENYON is the author of several books of poetry and fiction. He lives in Victoria. TIMOTHY LIU’s recent books of poems include Down Low and Lowdown (2023) and Luminous Debris (2018). New work will appear in American Poetry Review and Ploughshares. A reader of occult esoterica, he teaches at SUNY New Paltz and lives in the Hudson Valley, NY. Website: www.timothyliu.net Instagram: @liu_po REBECCA LAWRENCE LYNCH is a poet trying to be trans in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke. Originally from Halifax, her work has appeared in the Montréal-based Yolk’s In Transit series and Concordia University’s Soliloquies Anthology. Instagram: @alliterativebychoice K.S.M. writes fiction and sometimes essays. Her work has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Grain, Wigleaf, among others. Originally from the USA, she holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives in Toronto. Website: ksmorrison.ink TANIS MACDONALD is the author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female (2022) and six other books. She teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON. Her next book, Tall, Grass, Girl, is forthcoming. SADIE MCCARNEY’s books are Live Ones (2019) and Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking (2023). Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, The Walrus, Geist, Grain, CV2, EVENT, and The Fiddlehead, among others. Sadie lives in Charlottetown, PEI. Instagram: @madeupsadie GERALD ARTHUR MOORE is an adventurer, part-time university lecturer, high school teacher, and rugby coach living in Moncton, NB. His books of poetry are Shatter the Glass, Shards of Flame (2018) and Flak Jacket (2024). Rat Romeo is forthcoming. JONATHAN MOSKALUK lives in Coombs on Vancouver Island, BC. His work has appeared in Arboreal, Asylum, Sea & Cedar, The Heron’s Nest, and elsewhere. Instagram: @jonathanmoskaluk JENNIFER PANEK, Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, translates from Italian for the sheer joy of it. Her translations have appeared in American Chordata, MAYDAY Magazine, Copper Nickel, and Cagibi. MAUREEN PAXTON is an artist and writer living in Hamilton, ON. She is working on a book of poems called She SeeSaw. HANNAH POLINSKI is a writer and filmmaker. Her writing has appeared in CV2, Frontier Poetry, Pedestal Magazine, In the Mood Magazine, and more. From theatre to art criticism, her work explores familial memory, shifting landscapes, and expressions of sexuality. She lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Website: www.hannahpolinski.com Instagram: @wallcreeping JANET POLLOCK MILLAR is a writer and educator living on Ləʷəŋən territory in Victoria, BC and working in the Writing Centre at Camosun College. Her work has appeared in publications including Herizons, Prairie Fire, Room, and The Ex-Puritan. LinkedIn: Janet Pollock SINA QUEYRAS is the author most recently of Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf (2022), and My Ariel (2017). They are currently based in Montreal. Website: www.sinaqueyras.com EMILY RIDDLE is nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation in Treaty 6 Territory. Her first poetry book, The Big Melt (2022), won the Griffin Poetry Prize First Canadian Book Award. She is working on a second poetry collection about ghost waterways and a time-travel novel. She lives in Edmonton. Website: www.emilyjaneriddle.com JAY RITCHIE is a writer, editor, teacher, and English PhD candidate at McGill University. His most recent poetry collection is Listening in Many Publics (2024), a finalist for the 2024 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. His work has been featured in Maisonneuve, SAND, Dalhousie Review, on CBC radio, and at the PHI Centre. Website: www.jayritchie.org LAURA RITLAND is a poet, scholar, critic, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Website: www.lauraritland.com REBECCA ROGERSON is a poet and essayist. Born and raised in northern Alberta, she now resides on Ləʷəŋən territory in Victoria, BC. Her poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly. GEORGIO RUSSELL is a Bahamian writer and an alumnus of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, as well as the Obsidian Foundation and the Undocupoets Fellowship. He is currently supported by the Toronto Arts Council. SUSAN SANFORD BLADES lives on the territory of the Ləʷəŋən Peoples (Victoria, BC). Her debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the 2021 ReLit Award. Her short fiction has most recently appeared in Gulf Coast, The Malahat Review, and The Masters Review. Website: www.susansanfordblades.com SPENSER SMITH lives in Winnipeg. Her first book, A brief relief from hunger, was published in 2023. Website: www.spensersmith.com CATHERINE ST. DENIS lives, writes, teaches, and parents on the unceded territories of the Ləʷəŋən Peoples. Her poems recently appeared in Grain, ARC Poetry, Canthius, and Humber Literary Review. She was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize and PEN Canada’s New Voices Award. Her work is featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2025. GORDON TAYLOR is a queer emerging poet who walks an ever-swaying wire of technology and poetry. A 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, he has published poems in Narrative, Rattle’s Poets Respond, Nimrod, ARC Poetry, and elsewhere. Instagram: @cuddlyshark CLAUDIA YANG is a queer, Cantonese, chronically ill, artist, poet, and student practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest of Turtle Island, currently based in Tkaronto. She is a recipient of the 2024 Literary Arts Grant from the Toronto Arts Council. Website: www.claudia-yang.com Instagram: @bonesettersgrandchild |
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