LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

L.R. Anderson was born on the prairies and now lives on the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, Vancouver Island. She recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

Nels Andrews likes shooting analog photography because it moves slowly, like him. He believes its easier to capture the natural, the supernatural, the magical, and the wistful that way. When he’s not taking pictures , he enjoys other impractical pursuits, like impressionistic songwriting. 

Lisa Bang Hoffman, a Minnesota native, completed her MFA at the University of Nebraska in 1995. Bang Hoffman has taught at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Doane College, and Concordia University. Traditional silver prints and unique books have long been the focus of her work. More recent work includes digital color images. Bang Hoffman exhibits her work nationally and internationally; with honors including the Nebraska Arts Council Distinguished Artist Award in 2004, the Gaudi Medal from the Institut Municipal DʼAccio Cultural (Reus, Spain) 2005. She was a finalist in the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, (York, UK) and exhibited in the Berlin Foto Biennial, 2016. She resides in Lincoln, Nebraska, with her family.

Hannah Barrie is a writer and researcher living in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She was a 2024 recipient of the Hamilton Arts & Letters Short Works Prize for Poetry. Her work has been published in The Temz Review, the Hamilton Review of Books, and Riddle Fence (forthcoming).

Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press, 2024), House of Mystery (2016), and a chapbook, Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). House of Mystery was nominated for an Elgin Award and Anatomical Venus was shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in Event, Vallum, PRISM, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal, among others. She has been featured in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and The Best Canadian Poetry 2021, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She won the City of Regina Writing Award in 2025 for her manuscript-in-progress, We Want to Live Like Trees. She is queer and neurodivergent, and one-quarter of a writing group called The Pain Poets, who recently published their first joint chapbook, Prairie Queers (Gridlock Lit, 2026). 

James Roderick Burns currently serves as Reader in Poetry for Ploughshares and Co-editor of Presence, the UK’s leading haiku journal.  He graduated with Distinction from the Oxford University MSt in Creative Writing programme.

Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki is a gardener and writer from Birmingham, England. He writes about trees and plants (mostly) and people (sometimes) and other unimportant things. His work has featured both in print and online including The Lincoln Review, Steel Jackdaw, The Vanity Papers, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Lake, Sextet, Alocasia and Mindfork.

Veronique Chapuy is a Franco-Mexican photographer. She describes her work as a self-referential documentary. Through it, she explores intimate processes of identity reconfiguration in relation to landscape and memory, as well as the displacement generated around family relationships. In 2023 she received the Fiscal Stimulus for Artistic Creation (EFCA) from Conarte Nuevo León. In 2018 she became part of the Contemporary Images Platform (PICS) at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico. In 2017 she was selected for the Foto México AAVI-Centro de la Imagen Portfolio Review and for the Portfolio Review of the Latin American Photography Colloquium at Foto-Museo Cuatro Caminos in Mexico City. In 2015 she received the Acquisition Award, Revisión 2015, Fotógrafos de Nuevo León, from Conarte Mexico. That same year she won the Rangefinder Magazine Take Your Best Shot Competition in the Family category in New York, and in 2013 she was selected for the 2013 Contemporary Photography Program (PFC'13) of Conarte Nuevo León. Her work belongs to the collections of the Fototeca de Nuevo León, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, the Indie Photobook Library/Arts & Beinecke Libraries at Yale University, and the Maison de la Photographie in Paris. She lives and works in Monterrey, N.L., Mexico.

Edie Reaney Chunn is a writer, library worker, and weather appreciator who lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. Recently, they were shortlisted for PEN Canada's RBC New Voices Award (2025) and placed second in Vallum Magazine's Chapbook Prize. Their first chapbook, "The Letters of Puppet and Clown", is available with Anstruther Press. Edie enjoys working collaboratively & inefficiently on theatre projects, and other pursuits.

Jen Currin has published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (House of Anansi, 2023).  They have also published two collections of stories, Hider/Seeker (Anvil, 2018) and Disembark (House of Anansi, 2024). They live on unceded Qayqayt, Musqueam, Kwikwetlem, and Kwantlen Nation territories in New Westminster, BC (a suburb of Vancouver), and teach creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Nick Dvoracek has been involved in pinhole photography since arranging a workshop with noted pinhole photographer Ruth Thorne-Thomsen while teaching photography at Knox College. After teaching summer middle school workshops at the turn of the century, he began exclusively working in pinhole using cameras he designs and makes out of packaging cardboard. Since 2015, he has written the blog Pinholica.
 
Laura Ellenberger is a European based artist who uses alternative photographic methods. These pinhole images are long exposures which capture time and make the invisible visible through the trace of movement. Photography and fast shutter speeds freeze moments in time, but these shutterless long exposures extend time. Time captured and time ongoing. She works directly onto light sensitive paper. Laura has work held in collections in Australia. Her work has been published and exhibited over the years in London, Europe and Australia and South Africa through the Everard Read Gallery London, MContemporary Gallery Sydney, and Messum’s London.

Dagne Forrest has recent work appearing in The New Quarterly, RockPaperPoem, Pinhole Poetry, Whale Road Review, Anacapa Review, Funicular Magazine, Rust + Moth, Prism International, and Wild Roof Journal. 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).

Ben Berman Ghan is the author of The Library Cosmic (Buckrider books 2026), and The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024), which won the Foreword INDIES Award for Science Fiction, and was longlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature. His prose, poetry, and criticism have previously been published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan, and The Ancillary Review of Books, and has been reprinted in such anthologies as the year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Years Best Science Fiction on Earth. Ben is a PhD Candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary, where he lives with his partner and two cats, while serving as the editor in chief for Paper Bill Press

Ewen Glass (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and a body of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Maudlin House, HAD, Poetry Scotland and One Art Poetry.

Elizabeth Harrison is a Canadian poet and writer currently living in Mississauga, Ontario. Her poems have appeared in Quagmire Literary Magazine, Black Fox Literary Magazine, NōD, untethered, The Northern Appeal and Open Minds Quarterly. She is completing a Creative Writing Certificate with the UofT School of Continuing Studies and working on her first full-length collection of poetry.

P.W. Jarungpiterah's first chapbook is forthcoming in 2026 with Anstruther Press. Her poems have
been published in journals such as The Malahat Review, Cordite Poetry Review, The Antigonish
Review, Room, and EVENT.

Becci Kerstetter received her MFA from Hunter College in 1989. She loved photography when there were dark rooms and no digital anything. She so miss that time that she begin taking plastic toy cameras apart to pinhole. Two summers ago, she was lucky enough to take a Pinsta Camera workshop and her love for pinhole photography was reborn. Processing the images in the camera reminded her of working in the glow of the dark room and the many hours spent on the mystery of developing photos. Becci plans to continue to explore pinhole photography and spend many peaceful hours exposing for the prefect image.

Graeme Lees is a South African composer, musician and photographer. His photographic work includes pinhole photography made with a homemade 4×5 camera, often using X-ray film and experimental darkroom processes. His work explores atmosphere, ambiguity and the transformation of familiar places through unconventional photographic techniques.

Yvette LeClair is a workers’ rights activist and a compulsive note-taker. She is thankful to have grown up near a library. Recent work appears in FreeFall, Thimble Literary Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Queen’s Quarterly, Contemporary Verse 2, and others.  In 2025, on invitation from Arc Poetry, she worked with T. Liem as part of the Arc Poet-In-Residence program. Yvette’s chapbook, A Girl So Easily (Pinhole Poetry) came out in spring 2026. She lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two calico cats.

Sandrine Letellier finds inspiration in nature, music, and visual arts. From Montreal, her work has been published in Antiphony, Sontag Mag, Shadow and Sax, Sky Island journal, Wild Roof journal, Querencia Press, Bitter Melon Review and others. Her chapbook Urchin was released in 2025 (Shadow and Sax Press) and her chapbook Basic Positions in 2026 (Dancing Girl Press). She is the founder and EIC of Azarão Lit Journal and an associate editor at Shadow and Sax.  

The poetry of Callista Markotich, former teacher, principal and Superintendent of Education, has been published in Canadian literary magazines from Arc to Vallum, and in several American and British journals. Her poems have received several first, second and third place awards and honorable mentions. Her first collection, Wrap in a Big White Towel, published by Frontenac House in 2024, was  longlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial First Book Award. Callista’s recent work has received Pushcart and National Magazine nominations. She is contributing editor for Arc Poetry. 

Neil McClelland is a visual artist who has had solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Originally from the Gatineau Hills, Quebec, he divides his time between Edmonton, Alberta and Victoria, British Columbia. Neil has been previously published in Arc Poetry Magazine, The Temz Review and has had visual art included in Prism International.

Ed McDonough is a photographer. It's the photographs that matter. 

Amber McMillan is the author of three books of poetry. The most recent, Inheritance, is forthcoming with Gaspereau Press in 2027.

Marcus Myers lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he teaches and serves as the founding editor of Bear Review. Author of Cloud Sanctum (2022), his poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Common, Courtland Review, The Florida Review, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, RHINO, Salt Hill, Southeast Review, and other such journals. 

Steve Noyes has published ten books of fiction and poetry. Recent work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Critical Muslim, Other Words, and Devour. His chapbook The Conveyor won the 2024 bpNichol Prize. He lives on Vancouver Island. 

Jorma Onkinen is a photographer from Finland. After retirement from his job as an engineer, he began taking pinhole photographs with a self-made 4x5 camera made out of an old oil canister. He is also interested in solargraphy. He has had his photos exhibited all across Europe since 2021. 

Patrick O'Reilly (he/they/it/etc) is from Renews, NL. Patrick's third chapbook, Meditation Ram, is forthcoming on Anstruther Press.

Catherine Owen, a Vancouverite-Edmontonian, is the author of seventeen collections of poetry and prose. Her next book is a memoir called Sixteen Homes, due out from Wolsak & Wynn in Fall 2026.

Jed Pearson is a Wirral based photographer with over 20 years of experience. Having shot digital for many years Jed returned to analogue photography 2 years ago, specialising in monochrome street and pinhole landscape photography. His work focuses on the use of natural light and  the elements of nature and has featured in a number of magazines and online publications.

Michael Penny was born in Australia, but his family moved him to Canada when he was young. Since then he has published five books and in numerous literary journals. Once upon a time, he was a lawyer.

Heather Ramsay lives in Victoria, BC. Her writing has appeared in The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Maisonneuve, Canadian Geographic and more. Her debut novel, A Room in the Forest, was published in 2025.

Olga Rivaud Segura has been studying photography for many years, especially the photography of historic techniques, like pinhole and cyanotype. He has participated in various exhibitions, both online and in-person in Milan and Narni in Italy, Buenos Aires, Mexico and Peru.

Michael Russell (he/they) is the queer, mad mother monster behind two chapbooks, gallery of heartache (845 Press) and Grindr Opera (Frog Hollow Press). He’s the coauthor of chapbook Split Jawed with Elena Bentley (forthcoming from Collusion Books). When not entering the queer Speed Force and walking way too fast, they like long walks in the park and platonic dinners over flameless tea lights. Now, he’s reminding himself a bio is not a Grindr profile.

Gwynn Scheltema’s award-winning poetry and fiction have been published in anthologies, journals and magazines in Canada, and South Africa, online and in print. Her debut poetry collection Everchild was released by Aeolus House in 2023. Her chapbook Ten of Diamonds was released in 2021 by Glentula Press.

Tamara Segal is a student at the University of Connecticut, where she is studying environmental engineering and English. She is interested in the moments where sensation is abnormal, those feelings that come around like comets. She likes the company of animals, the Brontë sisters, and sunsets.

Michael V. Smith writes in many genres, from poetry to film to novels to improvisatory performance.  Smith has won a number of awards for both his film work and his writing. His memoir, My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp, 2015) was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. The Floating Man won Director’s Choice at the Cinema Diverse festival in Palm Springs. Michael V. Smith is a Professor at UBC, Okanagan campus, where he teaches Creative Writing.

Bob St. Cyr is a Canadian photographer and educator whose work explores place, memory, absence, and
light. Working primarily with analogue processes, he is particularly drawn to the contemplative qualities of pinhole photography. His recent writing practice has deepened his interest in the connections between the photographic image and poetic language, memory, and the experience of place.

The Mollusc Dimension is a UK-based, neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist. His comic memoir "The Weird & Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse" explores mental health, grief and growing as a 2nd generation, diasporic, Chinese creative. It was shortlisted by The Selfie Awards for non-fiction and supported by Arts Council England. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in publications by Arcana Poetry Press, Covert, Queer Out Here, t'ART, Unicorn Teeth, Wasafiri and others.

Jess Townsend is a multi disciplinary UK artist living in Bristol. Her love for printmaking began whilst working in London and studying at Goldsmiths College. Her work explores a ritualistic rhythm of returning and a continuing narrative with a specific landscape. Her analogue pinhole photography transforms into a series of etchings that convey a sense of nostalgia, and a tangible sense of a changing world. Strands of memories thread throughout her work, blurring or revealing what is seen, what is remembered, and what is in the shadows and is no longer visible. Her work has been exhibited in London including The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and other London Print Fairs and Exhibitions, as well as more widely in the UK, France, Finland, Belgium and Japan.

Lilah Warren's work has appeared in Poetry Pause and Contemporary Verse 2, and she was the winner of the senior 2024 Jessamy Stusberg Poetry Prize. She was also fortunate to be selected as one of 16 students from across Canada for FutureVerse 2025, an all-expenses-paid poetry intensive for high school students who show potential in poetry. There, she had the opportunity to learn from poets Rita Wong and Wayde Compton.

Jan Wiezorek (he/him) writes from rural Michigan. He authored the poetry chapbooks Forests of Woundedness (Seven Kitchens Press, 2026) and Prayer’s Prairie (Michigan Writers Cooperative Press, 2025). His poetry is forthcoming in The MacGuffin, The Comstock Review, and Dunes Review. Wiezorek is an awardee of the Poetry Society of Michigan and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.