LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Briana Armson is a queer poet, DJ, and event curator from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is passionate about storytelling as a pathway to embodiment and empowerment, and the healing catharsis that comes from poetry and dance. She’s also a cat fanatic, clowncore enthusiast, avid birder, Jean-Claude Van Damme film buff, and insatiable consumer of all things Drag Race. Her favourite holiday is, and will always be, Halloween.

Marie-Andree Auclair’s poems have found homes in many print and online publications in Canada, the USA, UK, Ireland and Australia, most recently in Bywords (Canada); Flo Lit Magazine (Canada); Young Ravens Review (USA); and Sierra Nevada Review (USA). She lives in Ontario, Canada.

Courtney Bambrick is poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Poems have or will appear in American Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, Beyond Words, Invisible City, The Fanzine, Philadelphia Poets, Apiary, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Mad Poets Review, and Certain Circuits. She teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia.

Born in Gò Vấp and raised in Dorchester & Alief, Thanh Bùi is a writer & actor currently based out of Austin, Texas. Her written work has appeared in The Offing, Lammergeier, Taco Bell Quarterly, diaCRITICS, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and other places accessible to her mom. Her film work has appeared in SXSW, CAAMFest, and elsewhere. She loves constantly. 

James Roderick Burns' fifth short-form collection, Crows at Dusk, was published last year by Red Moon Press.  He can be found on Twitter @JamesRoderickB.

Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2079 other literary outlets worldwide. A poetry judge for Canada's 2021 National Magazine Awards, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022. 

Colin Clarke is an Australian who lives in South Carolina in the United States. He has been passionate about photography in its many guises for over 60 years, and remains devoted to the use of film and the darkroom process. He continues to use simple classical equipment to make his exposures. He is not bound to any format, and enjoys using several analog cameras – formats from homemade pinhole boxes to 5x7 inch pinhole and field cameras. Colin’s work spans many subjects including architecture, landscapes with an emphasis on trees, the water’s edge, and botanicals. He strives to find and then record that special light which creates a peaceful harmony in the environment. Colin works in monochrome almost exclusively, processing film and paper in his own darkroom using standard and alternative methods for development and printing. Although influenced by many of the great photographers of the early twentieth century, Colin believes that the late English photographer Barry Thornton said it best about photographers and their quest for good light and form: “…. we should be particularly sensitive to the quality of light. Often, the great picture comes not from the subject itself, but from what unusual light makes it into.

Michele FariNelly uses photography, printmaking and writing as his main means of expression. He constructs his own camera obscuras, reworking ancient designs. As early as 1515 Leonardo da Vinci described this optical system, calling it "Oculus Artificialis." In his obscuras there are no photosensitive materials, but simple waxed paper screens, onto which the light that passes through the pinhole is projected. From a peephole behind the screen , Farinelly can see and digitally photograph the image (basically it is like being able to watch a movie from the side opposite the projection screen). He creates the screens with planar "defects" and concavities to get distorted images and thus has no control over the quality of the image that is reflected and photographed. The "flaw" then takes on the value of uniqueness and creates his personal visual language. He prefers landscapes and trees; the human figure is almost always absent and when it is there it appears as an elusive halo, impermanent like the nature of everything in existence.

S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has been published in many magazines around the world, including Rattle, Quadrant, The Antigonish Review and Cyphers. His poetry collection “The Colour of Extinction” will be published by Renard Press in September 2024.

Dagne Forrest's poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in journals in Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK. In 2021 she was one of 15 poets featured in Canada’s Poem in Your Pocket campaign. In 2023 she won first prize in the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest run by The New Quarterly. Her first chapbook will be published by Baseline Press in 2025. She belongs to Painted Bride Quarterly's senior editorial and podcast teams. Learn more at dagneforrest.com.

Ling Ge is an immigrant author based in Toronto. She is a graduate of The Writer Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her short stories have appeared in Spadina Literary Review, Ricepaper, and are forthcoming in Infusion: An Anthology of Asian Diaspora Writers. Her first published short story was nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Literary Prize. Her poems have appeared in Ribbons, Wales Haiku Journal, emerge 23, and are forthcoming in Canadian Literature.

E.G.N. Lafleur is a poet, essayist, and street Anglo Catholic living in London, Canada. Her debut chapbook, THE MAGI COME TO TORONTO, is forthcoming with Kith Books in 2024. She has poetry in Feed Lit Mag, Pinhole Poetry, Wrongdoing, Deathcap, Sage Cigarettes, Psaltery and Lyre, and forthcoming in The Wasteland; and essays in Earth & Altar and forthcoming in The Hour and Monk Arts. Her work interweaves faith and the body, liturgy and theology, housing justice, food security, and medieval English history and literature. You can find her on X @egnlafleur and her essays on Substack at egnlafleur.substack.com or egnlafleur.com.

Amy Lee is a lawyer based in Seattle. She holds a BA (Govt)/LLB, UQ, a LLM from The University of Melbourne. She is currently the Managing Editor of Quail Bell Magazine, a NYC based progressive feminist digital platform. Her work has been published in Canada, UK, Australia, Taiwan and USA. She continues to fight against racism and sexism & recently co-founded the Go Fund Me project which saved Bruce Lee’s Warrior TV Series for season 3 now on Netflix.

Rob Madden is a writer living on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations in the City of North Vancouver, BC. His work has been published in Grain, Prairie Fire, SubTerrain and other literary magazines. He holds a certificate in Creative Writing from the Writer’s Studio at SFU from 2005. A chapbook of poems, second hand smoke, is forthcoming with Pinhole Poetry.

Angelle McDougall is neurodivergent and a dedicated world traveler, retired college instructor, mother of adult sons, graduate of The Writers Studio at SFU, and loom-knitter. Angelle lives in Edmonton, Alberta and writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. She also enjoys chronicling the fantastic adventures shared with her author husband.

Paul Moorehead is an emerging poet and physician. He lives in St. John's with his partner and their two daughters. His poetry has appeared previously in Pinhole Poetry and in Turnstyle: the SABR Journal of Baseball Arts.

Shehrbano Naqvi is a Pakistani writer, currently pursuing an MFA at The New School. In honor of her late brother, her work primarily explores the themes of mental health and grief, but has recently expanded to include discourses around identity, social inequalities and cultural movements that define the 21st century. Writing under the name @banoqvi on Instagram, her work has also appeared in Poets Reading The News, Rue Scribe, Eunoia Review, and The Tempest, and I have performed on stages in Pakistan, Italy, and the USA.

Kimberly Peterson began her nursing career caring for chronically ill and/or dying people. Rich loam for a budding poet. After several unfortunate promotions, she spent much of her time writing dry policies. Once rescued by retirement, Kim applied her passionate quest for precise language to verse. Her favourite website remains Merriam-Webster.

Jim Provenzano has been making pinhole photographs on and off since the mid-1990’s, when he first encountered images at a New York Camera Club exhibit. Captured by how pinhole photographs can express timelessness and atmosphere, and the processes to make such images, including by modifying lens cameras to pinhole, he returned to the medium whenever breaks in his day job allowed. Now retired, he is both revisiting his archives of prints and negatives to move them to digital platforms and creating new works.  He is currently a member of the New Jersey Pinhole Club. You can find his works on Instagram (@jim_provenzano) and at the current Club exhibit at Unique Photo, Philadelphia. His works will also be included at a larger Club exhibit from September 3 – October 9, 2024, at The Hutchins Galleries, Lawrenceville, NJ. 

Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist, who has been an undercover poet since third grade.  She was raised in New York City and now lives in a forest in Pennsylvania. Last year, she started writing poetry again, after an almost thirty year hiatus. Since then her work has been accepted by more than forty publications including: Across the Margin, Ekstasis, Feminine Collective, The Avalon Literary Review, Persimmon Tree Literary Magazine, Military Experience and the Arts, Triggerfish Critical Review, Amethyst Review, Litbreak Magazine, and others.  

Vittoria Spaghetti is a poet living in Toronto.

Gordon Taylor (he/him) is a queer emerging poet who walks an ever-swaying wire of technology and health care. A 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Narrative, Rattle Poet's Respond, Nimrod, Arc, and CV2. Gordon was the winner of the 2022 Toronto Arts & Letters Club Foundation Poetry Award. He writes to invite people into a world they may not have seen.

Blayne Waterloo (they/she) is a horror writer and editor living in Georgia with their partner and loud dog.