Kyungseo Min
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Kyungseo Min

Kyungseo Min is a Korean-Canadian playwright and writer currently based in Montreal. As a Third Culture Kid, her goal is to create a distinctive style of writing blending Western and Eastern philosophies.

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Glen Hogard
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Glen Hogard

Glen Hogard lives in Calgary, Alberta and completed a MA in creative writing at the University of Calgary and an undergrad degree at York University in Toronto.

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Neil B. Bishop
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Neil B. Bishop

Neil B. Bishop is a Canadian educator, translator, and writer. He was born in B.C. and raised mostly in Saskatchewan; he has also lived in Alberta, Ontario, Québec, Newfoundland, and France.

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Marina Dempster
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Marina Dempster

Informed by the patterns and cycles of nature, Marina’s craft is a transmutation of materials, thoughts, and emotions.

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Moni Brar
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Moni Brar

Moni Brar is a settler on the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7 Region and Metis Nation Region 3, also known as Calgary. She is a Punjabi, Sikh Canadian writer exploring diasporan guilt, identity, cultural oppression, and intergenerational trauma.

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Emily Dontsos
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Emily Dontsos

Emily Dontsos holds an Honours B.A. in English Literature from McMaster University and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Toronto, where she served as a co-editor of echolocation, the literary journal of the Graduate Department of English.

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Penelope Woodcroft
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Penelope Woodcroft

Penelope Woodcroft is a poet living in Toronto, Canada. She fell in love with poetry at an early age, reading all the Poe she could get her hands on.

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Jozef Leyden
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Jozef Leyden

Jozef Leyden (pseudonym) lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He was born and raised in Bohemia and lived for a few decades in the Netherlands before he found his home in Canada.

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Amy LeBlanc
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Amy LeBlanc

Amy LeBlanc is a writer and editor from Calgary, Alberta. She is currently non-fiction editor at filling Station magazine and is the author of two chapbooks, most recently "Ladybird, Ladybird" published with Anstruther Press (August 2018).

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Vivian Zenari
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Vivian Zenari

Vivian Zenari’s work has appeared most recently in The Forge Literary Magazine, Eclectica, and Canthius. Her story “Royal Visit” won the silver award for fiction in the 2015 Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Showcase Award.

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Christina Wiebe
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Christina Wiebe

Christina Wiebe is a chronic illness warrior who has turned to the healing power of writing to process and cope with the chaos and uncertainty that are inherent in living life with a complex, chronic and invisible disease.

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Marina L. Reed
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Marina L. Reed

Marina L. Reed (honB.A., M.A., B.Ed.) grew up in rural Ontario. She has since lived and worked in countries around the world as an educator, a journalist, writer, and artist.

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Laura Jane Petelko
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Laura Jane Petelko

A Professional Photographic Artist residing in Toronto, ON, Laura Jane Petelko’s work has explored the psychology of ones identity and self-image, simultaneous with transformation and transcendence.

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Andrew Lafleche
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Andrew Lafleche

Andrew Lafleche is an award-winning poet and author of No Diplomacy; Shameless; Ashes; A Pardonable Offence; One Hundred Little Victories; On Writing; Merica, Merica on the Wall; and After I Turn into Alcohol.

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Tye Kraimer
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Tye Kraimer

Tye Kraimer is an emerging writer and filmmaker based in Toronto, interested in embodied stories of becoming tied to specific environmental contexts.

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Lisa Free
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Lisa Free

Lisa Free is a Canadian artist known for her loosely rendered sparkling waterscapes with elegant tonal palettes.

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