Alyssa Cooper
Alyssa Cooper is a Canadian author, poet, and spoken word performer currently living in Kingston, Ontario.
Craig Clark
Craig Clark is a writer and editor from Burlington, Ontario. His work has been featured in various publications including the Toronto Star, TERN Magazine, and Medium.
Paula Boon
Paula Boon is a Port Sydney, Ontario writer and editor who has adopted the meditative, playful practice of letting words and images find her and then combining them into found-word art.
Dessa Bayrock
Dessa Bayrock lives in Ottawa with two cats and a variety of succulents, one of which occasionally blooms.
Anna Baines
Anna Baines was born and raised in Calgary, AB where she currently resides with her fiancé, their dog and their cat.
John Alpaugh
John Alpaugh is a student at Dalhousie University, living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in his final year of a degree in philosophy and physics.
Jonathan Mendelsohn
When he isn’t working as an adjunct professor of applied linguistics at York University, Jonathan Mendelsohn writes fiction and creative non-fiction.
Michael Foy
Michael was born and raised in Surrey, BC. He completed degrees in psychology and teaching at Simon Fraser University.
Erin Alladin
Erin Alladin grew up in North Bay and Corbeil, Ontario, where her family did such charming old-fashioned things as tap maple trees, make patchwork quilts, and know wildflowers by name.
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.
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.
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.
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.
James Patterson
James Patterson was born on a cattle and grain farm in rural Manitoba, Canada.
Caitlin McKenzie
Caitlin Mckenzie is an emerging queer poet and playwright based in Barrie, ON.
Kim Losier
Kimberley Losier was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and attended Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax.
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.
Tye Kraimer
Tye Kraimer is an emerging writer and filmmaker based in Toronto, interested in embodied stories of becoming tied to specific environmental contexts.