LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Jacob Lee Bachinger lives, works, and writes in southern Alberta. He spends his days teaching at University of Lethbridge. His work has been published in Canadian journals such as The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, and Riddle Fence, among others. In 2021, Radiant Press of Regina published his poetry collection, Earth-cool, and Dirty.
Ben Blyth is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English working in Treaty 7 Territory. He was awarded a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Calgary in January 2024, and holds MA’s from RADA and Christ’s College, Cambridge, and has research and reviews published by Miranda, The Sixteenth-Century Journal, Early Theatre, and Shakespeare Bulletin. Ben has poetry published in Yolk and lives between Orkney, Scotland and Calgary, Alberta.
Sam Canney bridges relationships with revolution. He is the author of the forthcoming collection, Eden Unheard, which is now making its rounds with publishers. His poems have been featured in Cloudscent Journal’s Best-of-the-Issue, The Fool’s World by Raleigh Review, the Sonora Review, The Lickety Split by Chen Chen, and Pinhole Poetry, among others. Sam is the Founder and Co-Director of Third Angle Poets, a collective facilitating social change through performances, workshops, and mutual aid. He holds two degrees from UNC Chapel Hill and is the recipient of the 2024 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship.
Nancy Daoust is primarily a poet, although she also enjoys writing creative nonfiction. Her writing often explores our relationship with nature and the places we live. It is also influenced by pop culture and music. Nancy is an associate member of The League of Canadian poets, and the treasurer for the Sudbury Writer’s Guild. She is currently completing her first book of poetry.
Annie Diamond is an Ashkenazi Jewish poet and recovering academic who has made her home in Chicago. Her poems appear and are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, No Tokens Journal, Western Humanities Review, and widely elsewhere. She is currently trying to place her first poetry manuscript.
Deirdre Dwyer is the author of three poetry books: The Breath that Lightens the Body (Beach Holme, 1999), Going to the Eyestone (Wolsak & Wynn, 2002), and The Blomidon Logs (ECW Press, 2016) She lives on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia.
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. Kim may be reached via her author website at Kim Fahner – Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Teacher
Jim Goodin is a pinhole photographer, experimental music maker and diy tinkerer living in Brooklyn, NY. Jim came into pinhole in recent years being drawn to its process which can be fundamental or complex in tools and craft of photographing. Initially working in all analog processes and though not abandoning the legacy tradition, Jim recently decided to get a 20-year old DSLR to experiment with pinhole. Some of his photographs in this issue were made with this camera and a wide pinhole, resulting in a softer photograph with a feeling of painting. Jim can be found on Instagram at jim_goodin. He has a shop on Etsy at brooklynphotograph.etsy.com.
Jan Hinderson is a former newspaper journalist with a PhD in Media History. He lives on an island in the world heritage town Karlskrona in the southeast of Sweden. During the pandemic, he could not do his usual travel, reportage and street photography, so instead he put a pinhole “non-lens” on his camera – and discovered a new world of images. Since then it is all about pinhole!
Bryce Julien is a Toronto-based artist, a facilitator at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a graduate of the School of Image Arts, Photography Studies. Central to his practice is the positioning of photographic processes as tools for critical thinking and intrapersonal development. Operating in analog and alternative mediums, his work focuses on exploring the reflexive potentials latent in photographic methods and materials. By situating the camera as a collaborative agent, he seeks to understand the negotiations of experiencing with photography.
Season Kam is a psychotherapist, writer, and lover of stories of all kinds. She was born in Singapore and now calls Tkaronto (Toronto), Ontario home. Her work has been published in Imprint Magazine and Stirring: A Literary Collection. When she isn’t chasing her kids around, she can usually be found on a long walk.
Evadne Kelly is a dance artist, educator, and interdisciplinary scholar. Dr. Kelly focuses her award-winning arts-based research and creation work on community-engaged methodologies for social justice aims. She received the 2019 Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Award for Excellence in Conservation for her leading role in Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario—a co-created project that exposes and counters histories and legacies of oppression. This project builds on her 25+ years of professional dance experience.
Y.S. Lee‘s poems have won Contemporary Verse 2‘s Foster Prize and been selected for the anthology Best Canadian Poetry 2025. Other poems appear/are forthcoming in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Literary Review of Canada, Pinhole Poetry and other journals. Her fiction includes the new picture book Mrs. Nobody (Groundwood).
Wynn Libby is a poet from Maine, now living in Ontario with his wife. He is an author of unfinished work and a thinker of unfinished thoughts. His work has been published by bywords.ca.
Shannon Lintott‘s poems have been featured in NōD Magazine and the Power of Words Exhibit at Arts Etobicoke and are forthcoming in the Literary Review of Canada, Phylum Press and the Stanzaic Journal. Shannon was a mentee for both the Diaspora Dialogues Short-form and Arc Poet-in-Residence mentorship programs in 2024. They live in Toronto and are working on their debut chapbook of poetry.
Leili Najmabadi (she/her) is an Iranian-American writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing mainly centers around the bittersweet of life and how joy and grief can exist side by side. She publishes weekly writings on her Substack Between Two Years. Her work has previously appeared in Gems Zine and Kindergarten Mag.
Shane Neilson is a poet and physician from New Brunswick who currently practices in Guelph, Ontario. His work has appeared in Poetry (Chicago) and in the Best Canadian Poetry series four times, including Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (Biblioasis, 2017). Having served as judge for the 2025 International Hippocrates Poetry Prize, he is currently the poetry consultant for the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and his most recent book of poems from Goose Lane Editions is The Reign.
Sonia Nicholson’s work has appeared in Inspirelle, Literary Heist, Pinhole Poetry, Heimat Review, Rivanna Review, The New Quarterly, and others. Her writing explores themes of memory and identity. A Portuguese Canadian, she was born and raised in Osoyoos, British Columbia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French and Spanish from the University of Victoria and continues to call Victoria home. Her debut novel Provenance Unknown was published in 2023 (Sands Press) and 2025 (She Rises Studios), and she has written two more. She is also the author of a poetry chapbook, Asleep/Awake (Stripes Literary Magazine).
kerry rawlinson is a mental nomad & bloody-minded optimist who emerged from a Zambian gestation & flew to Canada. Recipient of New Millennium Writings; CV2 2-day Contest and Canterbury Poetry Prizes and mentioned in others, e.g. HUNGRY HILL Poetry for Politics; Bridport, Foster; Palette, her recent acceptances include: Dreamers; PrimeNumber; Pinhole; filling Station; IceFloe; Grain. kerry still wanders barefoot through dislocation & belonging, enthralled with the gore, music, brutality & beauty of the world—and still drinks too much (tea).
Shelagh Rowan-Legg (she/her) is a writer and filmmaker. Her work has been published in Taddle Creek, New Poetry, Carousel, and The Windsor Review. Her short films have screened at festivals around the world.
Layla Salma is a Palestinian poet and translator from the Gaza Strip. She writes from within tents and under bombardment, where language becomes a means of survival and a vessel for memory. Her poetry captures the details of daily life under genocide, forced displacement, and famine, giving voice to those who have been silenced. Her writing is not a luxury, it is resistance. Her poetic testimony is an attempt to preserve what remains of memory amid the rubble. Dreaming of surviving this genocide, Layla hopes to pursue graduate studies in journalism, to expand her tools of storytelling and advocacy, and to continue documenting truth not only through poetry, but through the power of the written word in all its forms.
Katerina Vaughan Fretwell has reviewed poetry for Arc, Germination, League of Canadian Poets, Prairie Fire and other magazines. Her tenth and eleventh poetry books, Familiar and Forgiveness (Ace of Swords) and Holy in My Nature, (Silver Bow Publishing) were published in 2024. Her poetry collection, What A World, placed third in the Golden Grassroots Chapbook Contest, 2025.
Brett Warren is a long-time editor and the author of The Map of Unseen Things (Pine Row Press, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Canary, Halfway Down the Stairs, Harbor Review, Hole in the Head Review, ONE ART, SWWIM Every Day, and other literary publications. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she lives in a house surrounded by pitch pine and black oak trees—nighttime roosts of wild turkeys, who sometimes use the roof of her writing attic as a runway.
Elana Wolff writes from the ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat First Nations in Ontario, Canada. Her poems have recently appeared in The Antigonish Review, Asemana Review, Best Canadian Poetry 2024, Blood+Honey, The Nelligan Review, Qwerty Best-of Anthology, Rat’s Ass Review, and Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution. Her cross-genre Kafka-quest work, Faithfully Seeking Franz, received the 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of Jewish Thought and Culture. Her poetry collection, Everybody Knows a Ghost, is forthcoming with Guernica Editions.
J. L. Yocum is an autistic musician and poet living in Brooklyn. He holds a B.A. in English Composition, concentration Poetry, from the University of North Texas. His poems have appeared in Albatross, The Orchards Poetry Journal, ionosphere, The Big Windows Review and The Broken Teacup. More are forthcoming in $ Poetry Is Currency and The Comstock Review. His musical endeavours span a few decades and a handful of projects, including work on the soundtrack of at least one award-winning film. He pays the rent working in a fine-art-adjacent industry and splits the bills with his wife and their indolent marmalade tabby.