LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Carol Alexander is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent of which is Blue Vivarium (Glass Lyre Press, 2024). Her work appears in About Place Journal, Asheville Poetry Review, Burningword Literary Journal, The Common, The Comstock Review, Denver Quarterly, Mudlark, One, RHINO Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, The Summerset Review, Sweet Tree Review, Stonecoast Review, San Pedro River Review, The Summerset Review, Terrain.org, Third Wednesday, Verdad, Western Humanities Review, New World Writing,  Verse Daily, and other print and online journals. With Stephen Massimilla, Alexander co-edited the award-winning anthology Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice (Cave Moon Press, 2022). 

Jody Baltessen is a poet, writer, and archivist. Her work can be found online at On Creative Writing, The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada; in print in Prairie Fire, Grain, TNQ: The New Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her unpublished manuscript, Intangible Things, was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poet's inaugural Pamela Paige Porter Poetry Prize. She lives in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory / Homeland of the Red River Metis.

A graduate of the Creative Writing program at Boston University, DJ Bennett’s poems have appeared in Salamander, Sugar House, Portland Review and the San Antonio Review among others. Her prose has appeared on Only a Game, Cognoscenti and Edify, among others. In addition, she recently attended the Bread Loaf’s Translators’ Conference and Colrain’s Poetry Manuscript Conference.

Daniel Bourne’s books of poetry include The Household Gods (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1995), Where No One Spoke the Language (CustomWords, 2006), and Talking Back to the Exterminator, Regal House, 2024). His poems have also appeared in Pinhole Poetyr, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Guernica, Conduit, Salmagundi, Crab Orchard Review, Rhino, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Field, Michigan Quarterly Review, Plume, Yale Review, and others. Founding editor of Artful Dodge, and translation editor of its online successor The Dodge, since 1980 he also sometimes lived in Poland, including in 1985-87 on a Fulbright for the translation of younger Polish poets.  A collection of his translations of Polish poet Bronisław Maj, The Extinction of the Holy City, came out from Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press in 2024, and his translations of Maj and other Polish writers have appeared in Field, Colorado Review, Partisan Review, Plume, Salmagundi, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Antigonish Review, Nimrod, and Prairie Schooner.

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 fall 2026 with Guernica Editions. Recent/upcoming publications include work in Paragon, Sprawl, The Miller’s Damsel, Great Lakes Review and Stanchion.

Attri Dey (she/her) is based in Kolkata, India. She is currently an undergraduate student of English Literature at Rabindra Bharati University. Her publications include contributions to her school magazine throughout middle and high school, as well as a poem published in a Bengali-language anthology. Her hobbies include writing poetry and short stories and reading. She is continuing to develop her literary and scholarly interests at the undergraduate level.

Elowen Dovren is an emerging writer who enjoys exploring different genres and perspectives. Her work has been featured on platforms like Substack and Medium, where she focuses on sharing ideas that are clear and easy to connect with. 

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. 

Raoul Fernandes lives with his wife and two sons on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). His first collection of poems, Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions, 2015) won the Dorothy Livesay Award and Debut-litzer Award for Poetry in 2016. He is the Poetry Editor for EVENT Magazine and works in public libraries in Vancouver. 

Gavin Foster (he/him) is a poet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is interested in pop culture, fantasy, and the inconvenient spaces into which grief might seep. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Dalhousie University. His poetry has been previously published in The Dalhousie Review, Open Heart Forgery, and the tide rises, with more forthcoming.

Catherine Graham’s poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and have appeared in Poetry Daily, Best Canadian Poetry and on CBC Radio. Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award, and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. The Celery Forest was named a CBC Best Book of the Year. Moon Writing, a collaboration with Robert Frede Kenter, is her latest book. A collection inspired by artist Remedios Varo is forthcoming.

Laurie Koensgen is a poet, an arts educator, and longtime advocate for the professional arts. She lives and writes in Ottawa. Recent publishers include Rust & Moth, The New Quarterly, Literary Review of Canada, The Ex-Puritan, Columba Poetry, and Squid Literary and Arts Magazine. Laurie is a founding member of the Ruby Tuesday Writing Group, a poetry collective that has been meeting weekly since 2006. Her fourth chapbook, this clingstone love, is with Pinhole Poetry Press. 

Mairin Caitriona Landis graduated from Duquesne University in 2025 and currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA with three friends, two cats, and a dog. Her work has appeared  in Sigma Tau Delta’s Rectangle, The Orchards Poetry Journal, After Happy Hour Review, :Lexicon, and Rainy Day Literary Magazine.

David Anson Lee is a physician, philosopher, and poet born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals including Right Hand Pointing, Braided Way, Eunoia Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, Silver Birch Press, and The Orchards. His poems often explore memory, medicine, displacement, spiritual endurance, and the hidden currents beneath ordinary life. He lives in Texas.

Y S Lee's poems have won Contemporary Verse 2's Foster Prize and been selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2025. Brick Books will publish Rebuke the Ghosts, her first full-length collection, and the Alfred Gustav Press will publish care, her second poetry chapbook, both in 2027.

Shannon Lintott’s poems have been featured in the Literary Review of Canada, Held Magazine, Common House Magazine, Great Lakes Review, Phylum Press and others, and are forthcoming in the White Wall Review and the Ammonite Review. Shannon was a mentee for the Diaspora Dialogues Short-form and Arc Poet-in-Residence mentorship programs and are part of the Forever Writers Club, the Mangrove Collective and River Street Reads. They live in Toronto. 

Jessica Lee McMillan (she/her) is a poet and teacher with a Creative Writing Certificate and an English MA from SFU. Read her recent/forthcoming work in CV2, The Malahat Review, QWERTY, and her chapbook Shine Like a Dime in the Dirt under the Moon via Pinhole Poetry. Jessica lives on the lands and waterways of the Halkomelem-speaking Peoples (New Westminster, BC) with her little family and large dog.  

Alessandro Merendino was born in Italy and lives in South East London. During the day and night, he is an accounting academic, although it is not as boring as it sounds. He received a national poetry award in childhood and, after a long hiatus, has returned to writing. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including London Grip, Reach, The Kyte String and Dark Poets Club, and one of his poems received an honourable mention in an international competition for dark poetry. He enjoys running, travelling, volunteering and writing poems that often return to the body, memory and desire.

Paul Moorehead is a writer in Newfoundland. He lives with his partner, their three children, and their one cat. His poetry has appeared in Pinhole Poetry, Riddle Fence, Horseshoe Literary Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2026, and other places. His first collection, Green, was published by Breakwater Books in 2025.

Born and raised in the Manila, Marc Perez is based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories. He is the author of the chapbook Domus (Anstruther Press, 2025) and Dayo (Brick Books, 2024), recipient of the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. He is currently a Poetry Ambassador with Vancouver Poet Laureate, Elee Kraljii Gardiner.

Susan Robertson grew up outside Washington, D.C. but has made her home in Canada for years. Recent work can be found in The Fiddlehed and Poet Lore. Her chapbook, So I Go, is out with Baseline Press.

Alex Skorochid is a writer and visual artist who lives with his partner and two sons in Victoria, BC. When he can steal back enough time and energy from his day job he writes short stories and poetry and builds cameras from trash.

Cristalle Smith is an award-winning poet and writer. She is published in CV2, Arc Poetry, Room, The Maynard, and elsewhere. Cristalle is the winner of subTerrain Magazine’s Lush Triumphant Literary award in creative nonfiction. Her book, Invisible Lives (Brave & Brilliant Series University of Calgary Press), won the Alberta Literary Awards for the Stephan G. Stephansson Prize for Book of Poetry 2025 and was longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets.

Lynn Tait is a poet/photographer residing in Sarnia, ON., land of the Aamjiwnaang First Nations. She is the author of You Break It You Buy It (Guernica Editions 2023) available in Canada, the US and the UK. Poems have been published in Prairie Fire, FreeFall, Windsor Review, Vallum, CV2, Literary Review of Canada, Anti-Heroin Chic, Muleskinner, Up the Staircase Quarterly and in over 100 North American anthologies. She’s a member of The Ontario Poetry Society, the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers Union of Canada and Not The Rodeo Poets.

Binoy Zuzarte (he/him) is a poet and creative director. Recent writing can or will be found in Arc, Augur, Scrivener Creative Review, The Shore, and Dusie. He lives with his partner and their dog in Toronto, where he is working toward his first book of poetry.