Authors Carmelinda Scian Carmelinda Scian is an award winning author who has been published in the Malahat Review, Litro, Belletrist, UofT magazine, Prairie Fire, Accenti Magazine, the Fiddlehead, the SanAntonio Review, Magnolia, the Antigonish Review, and the Hong Kong Review. “Yellow Watch” was nominated for the 2018 Journey Prize. She was judge for Malahat’s Open Season contest in 2018 and is presentlya reader for the Fiddlehead Review. She emigrated from Portugal to Toronto where she lives with her husband.
B .Tyler Lee B. Tyler Lee is the author of one poetry collection, With Our Lungs in Our Hands (Redbird Chapbooks, 2016), and her essay “A large volume of small nonsenses” won the 2020 Talking Writing Contest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Qwerty Literary Journal, Acting Up: Queer in the New Century (Jacar Press), and elsewhere. She teaches in the Midwest.
Emma Wu Emma Wu is a queer writer of color, environmental activist, and crossword enthusiast living in Philadelphia, PA with her partner and cat. She is currently attending Rutgers-Camden University’s MFA program in fiction writing and holds a BA in Geology from Bryn Mawr College. Born into a bi-racial Asian American family in Texas, Emma’s literary practice is steeped in the dissonance between cultural reverence and dissent. She writes to understand how we pass on and reshape memory, how it affects desire, and if we can ever really let it go. Emma was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and received the Katherine Fullerton Gerould Excellence in Writing Award in 2018. 68 | Issue 43
