![Gerald Thibeault](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/3b52ca37-d843-439b-b10a-b77396f999a6/gerald+thibeault.png)
Gerald Thibeault
When Gerry is not writing poetry he can be found running, or with a wrench in his hand, a welder sometimes, or maybe a big hammer.
![Susan Smith](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/6b010962-4579-4eb8-95e6-a2477a139328/Susan+Smith+headshot+300+web.jpeg)
Susan Smith
Susan Smith merges her storytelling instincts as a former Globe and Mail editor with her passion for visual narratives through photography.
![Lori Lupul](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/abc4fcb1-db19-4fe4-abf7-a206caa51b11/Lori+Lupul+picture.jpg)
Lori Lupul
Lori Lupul was born in North Vancouver and raised on a ranch near Princeton, British Columbia.
![Shadi Rajabi](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/28b5d48e-924d-4ebc-8423-5548ffb0a832/Shadi+Head+Shot.jpeg)
Shadi Rajabi
Shadi Rajabi is a Montreal-based short fiction writer and avid reader. She has written stories since she was twelve.
![Selena Mercuri](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/b2021a5d-28fd-4bf2-b0dc-f95a7b74180f/selena+mercuri+Headshot.png)
Selena Mercuri
Selena Mercuri is a Toronto-based writer currently working on her debut novel, which explores themes of identity and generational trauma.
![Cadence Edgcumbe](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/eb16e092-5519-4eed-9192-32d021c61c8a/cadence.jpg)
Cadence Edgcumbe
Cadence Edgcumbe turned the limitations of boat life in artistic innovation, creating striking portraits using watercolors on lamination sheets.
![David Halliday](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/0b737116-7534-4a19-a1c5-34aed7e61fa4/david+halliday+head+shot+web.jpeg)
David Halliday
David Halliday has published poems across the United States and Canada including murder by Coach House Press, winner of the 2001 Eppie for poetry.
![Justin Pulice](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/02c06fce-ee71-4418-b7ff-f4942c06269f/Justin+Pulice+-+Head+Shot+web.jpeg)
Justin Pulice
Justin Pulice is a poet and graduate of the BA Honours English and Creative Writing program at Concordia University.
![Lilah Warren](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/c31093a3-2731-475a-9334-ff234bc88814/Lilah+Warren.jpg)
Lilah Warren
Lilah Warren dreams of, loves, and has to be near the sea. She would like to be a seagull, but has settled for being a poet.
![Arielle Friedman](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/e3a54cb3-5989-47be-9059-7c48167df62b/Arielle-balcony-photo.jpg)
Arielle Friedman
Arielle Friedman is an award-winning documentary screenwriter who bounces between Toronto and New York.
![Ken Haigh](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/6afde496-7d4a-436a-89ea-a729aa4a5872/Ken+5a.jpg)
![Deborah Blenkhorn](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/124df5a4-3db2-4f3e-8eb2-347c5cb54f38/Deborah.jpg)
Deborah Blenkhorn
Deborah Blenkhorn's stories are set in Ontario, New Brunswick, and British Columbia.
![Dennis Stein](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/6d84b6c6-4f04-4263-84a1-c2667999c2bc/DennisSteinPR_Photo.jpg)
Dennis Stein
Dennis Stein has been writing historical pieces for free newspapers, and short stories and novels for more than a decade, having begun to take his craft seriously later in life.
![Jamie Quinn Mader](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/21e7b217-951d-4b7a-81ad-40722ad714f6/jamiequinn.jpg)
Jamie Quinn Mader
Jamie Quinn Mader (they/them) is a queer, mad, fat, non binary femme who writes from what is colonially known as Toronto, Ontario.
![Ronald Zajac](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaccc18dd29096153c3b266/1593888297098-Q0SWOCYUORZ3RNAX5KL6/Ronald+Zajac+headshot+cropped.jpg)
Ronald Zajac
Ronald Zajac was born and raised in Montreal, where he completed a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature at McGill University.