LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Frances Boyle’s latest book, Openwork and Limestone, was published by Frontenac House in 2022. In addition to two earlier poetry collections, she is also the author of Seeking Shade, an award-winning short story collection, and Tower, a novella. Her first novel, Skin Hunger, is forthcoming in 2024 with The Porcupine’s Quill. Frances’s writing has been selected for the Best Canadian Poetry series and Poem in Your Pocket Day among other honours. Recent publications include work in TAB Journal, Paddler Press, Acropolis and The Windsor Review.

Sarah B. Cahalan writes about art, books, natural history, landscape and human connections in the context of deep time, as well as the layers of places and how those correspond with our own layers as people moving through time and place. She is based in Ohio (USA).

Carol Casey lives in Blyth, Ontario, Canada. Her work has been twice-nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Anti-Langourous Project, Please See Me, Front Porch Review, Cypress, Vita Brevis, Blue Unicorn, InScribe  Journal and others, including a number of anthologies, most recently, Byline Legacies (Cardigan Press), Oxygen, Parables of the Pandemic (River Paw Press) and All Shall be Well: Poems for Julian of Norwich (Amethyst Press).

Barbara Daniels’ Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has appeared in Qwerty, Image Journal, Rogue Agent, and elsewhere. She has received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Kris Falcon’s second poetry collection Some Blue, A Little Spur has been released this June 2023. Recent poems may be found or will appear in The Hong Kong Review, Red Ogre Review, Havik, Atlanta Review, SMEOP, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She received her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Joel Robert Ferguson is a Nova Scotian poet of working-class settler origins who lives in Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory. His work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Cv2, The Columbia Review, Prairie Fire, Queen's Quarterly, & Riddle Fence, and his debut collection, The Lost Cafeteria (Signature Editions 2020), was awarded the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry.

Jan Hinderson born 1950, lives in Karlskrona, Sweden. He is a former journalist with a PhD in Media History, but now is all about pinhole photography (and some cyanotype). Calling himself a "pinhole street photographer," he wants to combine the speed and agility of the street with the poetic aesthetics of the pinhole. He walks the streets, alleys, quays, and bridges of his hometown, and other cities he visits, with a small pinhole camera looking for light, shadows, reflections, and opacity. 

James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. His latest chapbooks are Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022) and Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021). Recent poems are in Stirring, Vilas Avenue, and *82 Review. He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (jamescroaljackson.com / Instagram: @jamescroaljackson) 

Claire Jussel is a poet, writer, and artist from Boise, Idaho. Her work has appeared in West Trade Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Wizards in Space, and Split Rock Review. She currently resides in Ames, Iowa and is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing and Environment program at Iowa State University. Her previous places of work and fascination have included bookselling at Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, park-rangering in Wyoming, and occasional lighthouse keeping.

Jayant Kashyap has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net, and has published two pamphlets and a zine, Water (Skear Zines, 2021). His work appears in POETRY, Magma and elsewhere.

Adrienne King (she/they) is a settler and a writer on Treaty 6 territory. She spends long prairie winters plotting her garden and short summers failing her plots. Their poems have been published in antilang.

Laurie Kuntz has published two poetry collections (The Moon Over My Mother’s House, Finishing Line Press and Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press), and three chapbooks (Talking Me Off The Roof, Kelsay Books, Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press and Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press).   She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and one Best of the Net. Her chapbooks, Simple Gestures, won the Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Contest, and Women at the Onsen won the Blue Light Press Chapbook Contest. Happily retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind. Visit her at https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com

Yvette LeClair is an activist, administrator, and compulsive note-taker. She came of age reading a lot in the suburban Ontario of the seventies. Her writing explores the finding of place and voice in a world that increasingly “others” women, trauma survivors, workers, and those who are ageing. Her work is forthcoming in Queen’s Quarterly. She lives in Toronto.

Lacey Lindsey is a writer and educator born and raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work is primarily influenced by film, Appalachian vegetation, cycles of generational violence, and the poetics of memory. She currently works as an elementary school teacher and lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent". His work has nominated eleven times for Best of the Net, eight for the Pushcart Prize and once for the Forward Prize, and has been released in three collections; "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016), "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019) and “Noble Rot” (Turas Press, 2022)

Cole Mash (he/him) is a poet, scholar, writer, teacher and community arts organizer who lives on unceded Syilx-Okanagan territory in Kelowna, BC. He has performed poetry locally and nationally for over 10 years, and his creative work has been published in CV2, Forget Magazine, The Eunoia Review, and anthologized in The Quiet Minds Anthology and Papershell X. His lyric-memoir, What You Did is All it Ever Means, was published with Broke Press in 2021. Cole has a wonderful partner, four kiddos, and two kitties whom he loves all the way to the bottom. 

Ottawa writer Colin Morton has published many books and chapbooks of poetry including award winners The Merzbook: Kurt Schwitters Poems and Coastlines of the Archipelago, as well as stories and reviews, the novel Oceans Apart, an award-winning animated film, and video poems accessible on YouTube.. www.colinmorton.net 

Sonia Nicholson’s work has appeared in various publications including Inspirelle, Literary Heist, Pinhole Poetry, Heimat Review, and Rivanna Review. Her writing regularly explores themes of identity, family, and place. A first-generation Canadian who grew up in a Portuguese immigrant household, she was born and raised in Osoyoos, British Columbia. Sonia 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 by Sands Press.

Kushal Poddar is the author of 'Postmarked Quarantine' and has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of 'Words Surfacing’. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe.  Twitter- https://twitter.com/Kushalpoe

Stan Rogal lives and writes in Toronto along with his artist-partner and their pet jackabee. Work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US and Europe. The author of several books and chapbooks (some with above/ground). His claim to fame? He once had drinks in a seedy Vancouver bar with Allan Ginsberg. Allan drank orange juice, Stan did not.

Kate Rogers’ next poetry collection, The Meaning of Leaving, is forthcoming with Montreal-based publisher, Ace of Swords (AOS), in early 2024. Her poems recently appeared in subTerrain, The Windsor Review and Looking Back at Hong Kong (Chinese University of Hong Kong). Kate's reviews have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, The Goose and CV2. Kate is a Co-Director of Art Bar, Toronto’s oldest poetry only reading series. More at: katerogers.ca/

Elana Wolff lives and works in Thornhill, Ontario—the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat First Nations. Her writing has most recently appeared in Acta Victoriana, Arc, CV2, FreeFall, Galaxy Brain, The Nashwaak Review, Prairie Fire, Vallum, and Yolk. Her collection, Swoon, won the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry. Her cross-genre Kafka-quest work, Faithfully Seeking Franz, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions.

Ellen Zhang is physician-writer who has studied under Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham and poet Rosebud Ben-Oni. She has been recognized by the DeBakey Poetry Prize, Dibase Poetry Contest, and as a National Student Poet Semifinalist. Her works appear or are forthcoming in Chestnut Review, The Shore Poetry, Hekton International, and elsewhere.