List of Contributors

Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, Loch Baillie (he/il) is a queer writer and editor now based in Quebec City. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks, ice, dove, parachute (Cactus Press) and Citronella (Anstruther Press), as well as the forthcoming collection River Running (icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions, 2026). He is an associate poetry editor at Plenitude Magazine and a board director for the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Find him everywhere @lochbaillie.

Samantha Annie Bernstein is the author of Kitchen Island Poems (Gap Riot Press, 2021), Spit on the Devil (Mansfield Press, 2017), and Here We Are Among the Living (Tightrope Books, 2012), which was nominated for a B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Her poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including Toronto Journal, Freefall and The Fiddlehead; her scholarship on class, aesthetics, and social justice was most recently published in English Studies and Canadian Theatre Review. She lives in Tkaronto/Toronto with her spouse, children, cats, and an anxious mutt, and is an adjunct professor at York University.  

Frances Boyle’s books include the poetry collections Openwork and Limestone (Frontenac House, 2022) and Light-carved Passages (Doubleback Books 2024) as well as Seeking Shade, an award-winning short story collection, and Tower, a novella. Her first novel, Skin Hunger, is forthcoming in 2026 with Guernica Editions. Recent/upcoming publications include work in PRISM international, South Dakota Review, CV2, Great Lakes Review and talking about strawberries all of the time.

After three decades in the financial services industry, spent mostly at the water cooler, Gary Campanella now writes brief, third-person bios. His work has appeared beneath his stories and poems on physical pages and across the internet. He is also an Executive Fellow for the Anti-Racism and Diversity Initiative (ARDI) for Los Angeles County, and the Managing Editor for the Muleskinner Journal. He loves LA.

Robbie Chesick (She/Her) lives in Vancouver, BC, on unceded Coast Salish territory. She recently closed her counselling practice to ingest a daily dose of beauty, absurdity and surprise. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Pause, Event, Vallum, The Ekphrastic Review, Dusie, Prairie Fire, and the Harbour Centre 5 chapbook Brine.

Sky Davis is a high school senior whose poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Eunoia Review, Anaheim Poetry Review, Acumen Poetry Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal, and others.

Born in Montreal, Antony Di Nardo is the author of seven books of poetry. Forget-Sadness-Grass (Ronsdale Press 2022), was a CBC Books' poetry pick. Recent work appears in The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Literary Review of Canada, The Wild Roof Journal and others. This past June, the chapbook Cloudspotting (since 1949) was presented at the Accenti Arts Festival in Charlottetown, PEI. Di Nardo's poems have been translated into several languages and can be found in anthologies across Canada and internationally.

Kim Fahner lives, writes, and teaches in Sudbury, Ontario. Her most recent books are a debut novel, The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024) and a new book of poems, The Pollination Field (Turnstone Press, 2025). Kim is the Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada. She is currently working on a collection of creative nonfiction essays. 

Dagne Forrest has recent or upcoming work in Funicular Magazine, The New Quarterly, periodicities, Wild Roof Journal, Prism International, Pinhole Poetry, and Tar River Poetry. She belongs to Painted Bride Quarterly’s senior editorial and podcast teams. Her chapbooks include Un/becoming (Baseline Press, 2025) and Falldown Lane (Whittle Micropress, 2026).

Amber Goodwyn is an interdisciplinary artist with active poetry, music, and film practices. Amber’s poems have recently appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, Peach Fuzz and BAD DOG Mag. For her music project, Natural Sympathies, Amber works in concept album cycles with expansions into performance art and other disciplines. Amber has lived in Montreal, Nassau, and is currently based in oskana ka-asastēki, Treaty 4 territory / Regina, Saskatchewan.

Patrick Grace lives on the unceded territories of the Lilwat Nation. His debut poetry collection, Deviant (University of Alberta Press, 2024), was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry. He is the managing editor of Plenitude Magazine, Canada's queer lit mag.

Julie Cameron Gray is originally from Sudbury, Ontario (Atikameksheng Anishnawbek territory). She is the author of two poetry collections: Lady Crawford (Palimpsest Press) and Tangle (Tightrope Books). She has previously published in Best Canadian Poetry, Vallum, Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, EVENT, The Moth (EU), Acumen (UK) and Magma Poetry (UK). 

James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet working in film production. His latest chapbook is A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry, 2023). Recent poems are in ITERANT, Stirring, and The Indianapolis Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Nashville, Tennessee. (jamescroaljackson.com)

David Ross Linklater is a poet from Balintore, Easter Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland. He is the author of five pamphlets, most recently Affection is the Broadcast (Pinhole Poetry Press, 2025). His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Dark Horse, Butcher’s Dog and bath magg. He lives in Glasgow.

Kathryn MacDonald’s poetry has been published in Room, FreeFall, and other Canadian literary journals and anthologies, as well as internationally in the U.K., U.S., and beyond. Her new poetry collection, The Blue Gate is forthcoming, Spring 2026, with Frontenac House. Liminal Spaces is a chapbook anthology of ekphrastic poetry by Kathryn and three fellow-poets (2025). She is the author of Far Side of the Shadow Moon: Enchantments (poetry chapbook, 2024), A Breeze You Whisper: Poems (2010) and Calla & Édourd (novel, 2009). 

Melissa Mack is a poet and essayist. Her full-length poetry collection, The Next Crystal Text, was selected by judges Melissa Buzzeo, Mg Roberts, and Divya Victor in 2018 for the Timeless, Infinite Light first manuscript award, and now lives at Nightboat Books. Other work has appeared in journals such as the Berkeley Poetry Review, Hot Pink, Elderly, and The Capilano Review, as well as in anthologies, chapbooks, and at public events. She has been the recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Award and a UC Davis Graduate Creative Writing Award. She serves on the Board of Directors for Small Press Traffic, a San Francisco Bay Area-based organization for poets who push boundaries in the arts. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Rob Madden is a writer living in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, situated on the territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas. His work has appeared in Grain, Prairie Fire, Sub Terrain and other literary magazines and anthologies. His chapbook, second hand smoke, was published in 2024 with Pinhole Poetry, where he now serves as an assistant editor.

Alexandra McKay writes fiction, essays, and poetry. Her work explores themes of modern hope, the trajectory of tenderness, and middle spaces. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Fire, The Ex-Puritan, The Globe & Mail, Archetype, Funicular, and various North American publications since 2011. She is wondering what the birds are doing.

Laura Nuckols is a candidate at UC Riverside’s Palm Desert MFA and a 2024 Oberlin Screenwriters Intensive fellow. They served as poetry editor for Prison Journalism Project and The Coachella Review. Their poems have appeared in The Banshee, Aôthen, and Protean. Nuckols lives in Minneapolis, Mni Sóta Makoce. 

Concetta Principe has five books of poetry to her credit (Interference, Walking, Hiroshima, This Real, Disorder), two creative non-fiction projects (Stars Need Counting and Discipline N.V.: A Lyric Dictionary) and one book of fiction (Stained Glass). Interference, published by Guernica Editions, won the Bressani award for poetry; This Real, published by Pedlar Press, was long-listed for the League of Canadian Poet’s Raymond Shouster Award. Her most recent collection of poetry, Disorder, came out with Gordon Hill Press in 2024 and has been shortlisted for the AICW-Bressani Award. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Malahat Review, Grain, The Puritan, and The Antigonish Review, among others. Her scholarship is centered on representations of madness in literature, and her most recent scholarly work, Mad Speculations: Anne Carson’s Messiahs and the Canadian Unconscious will be coming out with Peter Lang in the fall of 2025. She lives with a disability and teaches at Trent University, Durham.

Monty Reid is an Ottawa poet. He has published a dozen collections of poetry, with a new volume scheduled for 2027. His poem 'Skate' was written for a joint program of the Ottawa RiverKeeper and the Ottawa Poets Laureate. In the winter he writes and builds whimsical assemblages from garden debris.  In the summer he coaxes his young peach trees into production.

Kate Rogers’ poem "Baba Yaga: Wolf Mother” will also appear in her poetry collection Baba Yaga and the Girl Who Ate the Rope, forthcoming with Frontenac House in Spring 2026. Kate’s poem “My Mother’s House” appeared in The Pinhole Review before winning the subTerrain Lush Triumphant Award as part of her five-poem suite of the same name. Kate Rogers is a former director of Toronto's Art Bar Poetry Series.

Wenda Salomons has been working with pinhole cameras for over 30 years. Her bodies of work generally explore the abstract rather than the directly representational; the liminal and mysterious rather than the concrete and realistic. More recently, she has included intentional camera movement in her work. Through pinhole photography, Salomons seeks to visually engage the audience and stimulate dialogue at the intersections of natural and human environments where tension and harmony coexist. She aims to both please and confound by presenting familiar shapes and subjects in unfamiliar settings, and by using pattern and texture to expand perception and relationship. Salomons has lectured and led workshops on pinhole photography, while maintaining her own studio practice. Her prints are held in private and public collections across North America. She lives and works in Amiskwâciwaskahikan in Treaty 6 territory also known as Edmonton in Alberta, Canada.

Peter Schireson began writing poetry in earnest after a long career, first in education. later in business. He has degrees from University of California, University of Victoria, and Harvard University. Most recently, he completed an MFA in poetry at Warren Wilson College. He has also trained extensively in Zen Buddhism in the U.S. and Japan. He has published six volumes of poems, most recently Before the Sun with poems occasioned by his move to Palm Springs, California, where he lives with his wife, the psychologist and Zen teacher, Grace Jill Schireson, and their two dogs, Dewey and Thomas.

Kelly Shepherd’s third poetry collection, Dog and Moon, was published in spring 2025 by Oskana (University of Regina Press). Insomnia Bird (Thistledown, 2018), his second collection, won the 2019 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Kelly has written eight chapbooks, and he is a poetry editor for the environmental philosophy journal The Trumpeter. Originally from Smithers, British Columbia, he currently lives and teaches on Treaty 6 territory, in Edmonton. 

Allister White is a poet born and raised on/by the prairies. She has been accused of being “quite poetic for a mechanic,” or rather, “quite mechanical for a poet.” She lives and writes on Treaty 4 and 6 land in Saskatchewan, where she is currently walking Regina’s downtown and warehouse districts as a mode of research-generation while studying English Literature at the University of Regina. Her creative writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Grain, Spring, and ARC.

Julie Wong is an undergraduate student at UCLA. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and was a poetry finalist in the Rising Voices Awards. Her work is published or forthcoming in The Shore Poetry, Gone Lawn Journal, ellipsis… literature and art, Full House Literary, Ink & Marrow, and elsewhere.