Ted McInnis
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Ted McInnis

Christina McArthur (she/her) is member of the pasture poets poetry collective, an informal group of interdisciplinary thinkers, knowers, and poets who feel most seen when weaving words.

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Christina McArthur
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Christina McArthur

Christina McArthur (she/her) is member of the pasture poets poetry collective, an informal group of interdisciplinary thinkers, knowers, and poets who feel most seen when weaving words.

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Jessica Golding
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Jessica Golding

Jessica Golding is a queer and gender-fluid fiction writer originally from the East Coast.

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KC Gano
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KC Gano

KC Gano is a forester in training working from the BC interior. She writes poetry, essays and micro fiction.

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Lindsay McDonald
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Lindsay McDonald

Lindsay McDonald has always loved reading and writing. She is currently studying English and Sociology at Athabasca University.

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Oleksandra Budna
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Oleksandra Budna

Oleksandra Budna grew up in Ukraine. She now lives in Toronto with her family and works as a communications professional for a social justice and health equity organization.

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Ian Clay Sewall
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Ian Clay Sewall

Ian Clay Sewall is a Canadian based in Los Angeles. He is an MFA candidate at Antioch University and his stories have appeared in Soundings East, Santa Ana River Review, and are forthcoming in Prairie Fire. His films have won awards in both the US and Canada.

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Pauline Peters
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Pauline Peters

Pauline Peters is an African-Canadian writer living in Toronto. She has been published in Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, Room, The Fiddlehead, The Nashwaak Review, and The Windsor Review.

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Andrea Marcelino
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Andrea Marcelino

Andrea Marcelino is an interdisciplinary artist born and based out of Tkaronto/Toronto, whose practice includes writing, photography, video, and film.

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Michele Alba
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Michele Alba

Michele Alba has a Master’s degree in painting and fine arts. About five years ago she tried her hand at writing fiction and fell in love.

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Donna Wise
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Donna Wise

DONNA WISE is a Toronto-based contemporary/abstract artist who has exhibited throughout Canada and the United States. Her acrylic paintings are large, bold, fluid, and full of energetic confidence.

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Pauline Shen
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Pauline Shen

Pauline Shen is an emerging writer in London, Ontario. Her writing aims to showcase beauty and courage rooted in unexpected and challenging places. Her work is published or forthcoming with Amethyst Review, Blank Spaces, CommuterLit, and Dreamers Creative Writing.

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CMBearArt
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CMBearArt

Christine, owner of CMBearArt was born and raised in Southern Ontario where she currently resides with her husband and son. Always a creative soul, she didn't pursue art until she was in recovery from a life-threatening, life-altering car accident that left her immobile for several months. Since then, creating through art has become her full-time ministry and occupation.

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Haley Down
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Haley Down

Haley Down is a student at the University of Essex, currently pursuing a Masters of Wild Writing. She has been an editor at Blank Spaces since 2018. She writes environmental poetry and in her free time she can be found talking to the trees, at her sewing machine, or playing boardgames with her friends.

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Jessica Lee McMillan
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Jessica Lee McMillan

Jessica Lee McMillan is an emerging BC poet with an MA in English. She likes crooked, shiny things and her writing explores architectures of perception, existentialism and longing—especially in nature and music.

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Ivanka Fear
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Ivanka Fear

Ivanka Fear is a former teacher now pursuing her passion for writing. Her poems and short stories appear in Spadina Literary Review, Montreal Writes, Adelaide Literary, October Hill, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Sirens Call, The Literary Hatchet, Wellington Street Review, Aphelion, Muddy River Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

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Crystal Randall Barnett
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Crystal Randall Barnett

Crystal Randall Barnett has always been obsessed with reading and writing. She studied Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Waterloo, later followed by a Masters degree in Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Toronto.

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Gary Kirchner
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Gary Kirchner

Gary J. Kirchner holds a Master’s degree in sports biomechanics. He played and coached football at McGill for three decades, and taught physics at the college and high school levels during the same period.

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Paul Ruta
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Paul Ruta

Paul Ruta is a Canadian writer living in Hong Kong with his wife and a geriatric tabby called Zazu; his kids live on Zoom. Recent and upcoming work in Cheap Pop, Robot Butt, F(r)iction, Reflex Press, Ghost Parachute, and Smithsonian Magazine.

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