Owen Day
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Owen Day

Owen Day is a Canadian writer studying in San Francisco, wishing they could go back home.

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Sarah Cheng
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Sarah Cheng

Sarah Cheng was born in Hong Kong in the 80s and grew up in Markham, Ontario.

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Celia Richard
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Celia Richard

The intricacies of the human connection are what motivate Celia Richard to write.

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Rose Camara
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Rose Camara

Rose Camara is an emerging writer, public servant, and recovering lawyer living and working on the Lekwungen people’s territory known as Victoria.

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Margot Block
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Margot Block

Margot Block has been writing since the age of fourteen. She won first prize in a poetry contest sponsored by the Writers Collective and an honourable mention in a poetry contest sponsored by the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group.

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Ashley Alexandra
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Ashley Alexandra

Ashley Alexandra is an emerging contemporary abstract mixed media artist that resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Martin Mielke
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Martin Mielke

Martin Mielke grew up in southern Ontario before moving to the northern part of the province in 1991. He taught in a First Nations community for ten years before settling in Thunder Bay.

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Marek Przemieniecki
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Marek Przemieniecki

Marek Przemieniecki is an immigrant who has spent his life giving suggestions on how to improve sentences, plots, and structures as a high school English teacher.

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Joel Fishbane
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Joel Fishbane

Joel Fishbane is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose novel The Thunder of Giants is available from St. Martin’s Press.

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Grace Curry
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Grace Curry

Grace Curry is currently working as an engineer-in-training in Calgary and spends her free time collecting experiences and then writing about them.

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Désirée Jung
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Désirée Jung

Désirée Jung is an artist born in Brazil, and adopted by Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world.

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Gwen Tuinman
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Gwen Tuinman

Gwen Tuinman is novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Influenced by an interest in bygone days, her writing explores the landscape of human tenacity and how women navigate the social restrictions of their era.

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India Das-Brown
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India Das-Brown

India Das-Brown is based in Toronto. Currently working as a barista at an artisanal French bakery, she is interested in art, life, and photography, and always on the lookout for new opportunities.

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Finnian Burnett
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Finnian Burnett

Finnian Burnett teaches undergrad English and creative writing. They’ve published in the Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, and more.

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Linda Woolven
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Linda Woolven

Linda is a Toronto artist with a degree in Fine Arts. Her work is characterized by her great love of colour and texture and by the movement she creates in her paintings, using light, layers and stroke.

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Rod Ellard
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Rod Ellard

Rod Ellard is a writer, a musician, an ex-lawyer, and a former government bureaucrat.

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