Samuel Strathman
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Samuel Strathman

Samuel Strathman is a poet, author, educator, and the founder/editor-in-chief of Floodlight Editions. Some of his poems have appeared in White Wall Review, Dreich Magazine, Orange Blush Zine, and elsewhere.

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Cindy Patrick
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Cindy Patrick

Cindy Patrick At 56, these are Cindy’s formative years. After leaving Calgary, settling in a Sooke rainforest, she works in grocery retail just enough to keep a humble existence.

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Robin Pacific
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Robin Pacific

Robin Pacific just completed an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Kings College, Halifax. Based in Toronto, she has had a visual arts practice for twenty-five years.

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Aileen Luo
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Aileen Luo

Aileen Luo (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian poet, artist, and graphic designer based in Toronto. Her interests include drinking soup and petting cats.

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Caitlin Lindsay
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Caitlin Lindsay

Caitlin Lindsay(she/her) lives and works on the unceded Traditional Coast Salish Lands of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations in what is now known as British Columbia.

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Sarah Law
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Sarah Law

Sarah Law is a reporter for the Gravenhurst Banner newspaper and lives in Muskoka, Ontario. She enjoys writing, running, and playing with her cat, Panda.

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V J Hamilton
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V J Hamilton

V.J. Hamilton lives and works in Toronto. “Tattletale” is based on a report from BBC Business Daily on employee monitoring software.

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Joe Bongiorno
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Joe Bongiorno

Joe Bongiorno is a Montreal-based writer and journalist. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Canadian Notes & Queries, Geist, Event, Freefall, Broken Pencil, the The Antigonish Review and CBC.

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Elvira Berezowsky
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Elvira Berezowsky

Elvira Berezowsky is a professional communications writer, author, and mother, working from her cold basement office in Edmonton, AB.

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Daniel Bay
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Daniel Bay

Daniel Bay is a fiction writer based out of Southern Ontario. After obtaining his B.A. in Geography at York University, he completed his MA in Critical and Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire.

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Angela Zheng
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Angela Zheng

Angela Zheng lived in New York City for five years where she first started photography—there was always something interesting to see in the city. She currently lives in southern Ontario where she works as an economist.

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Shawn Stibbards
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Shawn Stibbards

Shawn Stibbards lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. His stories and poems have appeared in Prism international, Grain, Broken Pencil, and Dalhousie Review.

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Tristan Marajh
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Tristan Marajh

Tristan Marajh’s The Complete Works of Min Ju Kim was awarded 2nd Prize at The Scugog Arts Council’s Ekphrastic Writing Competition (Canada, 2020).

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Claudette Manzanares
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Claudette Manzanares

Claudette Manzanares draws much of her creative inspiration from her upbringing in Northern Ontario, but now calls Acton, Ontario home.

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Riley Kelly
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Riley Kelly

Riley Kelly is a dedicated and enthusiastic secondary school teacher in York Region. She teaches English and loves to share her passion for literature and language with her students.

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George Herbers
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George Herbers

George A. Herbers is an undergraduate English student studying in Edmonton Alberta. A lifelong reader, he has long admired the paragons of existential literature among other classics.

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Bruce Geddes
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Bruce Geddes

Bruce Geddes is the author of The Higher the Monkey Climbs. His short fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, Hart House Review, and Great Lakes Review. Born in Windsor, Ontario, he now lives in Toronto.

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Eva Dominelli
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Eva Dominelli

Eva graduated in 2017 from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in Illustration. Currently, she works on editorial illustration, album art, and poster design. She has self published several artist books, including her 2020 zine Things Men Say to Me at Work, winner of Broken Pencil’s Art Zine of the year.

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Andrew Dasselaar
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Andrew Dasselaar

Andrew Dasselaar has written ten nonfiction books in Dutch and one in English. Originally from Amsterdam, he made Vancouver his home in 2017 to complete an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC, before moving to Toronto in November 2020 to take a job at the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency.

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