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Rose Adams

Anabelle Aguilar Brealey

Ashleigh Anne Allen was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario. After graduating with honours from Queen’s University, she earned an MFA in poetry at The New School and an MA in English education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has taught literature and various creative writing courses in classroom and community settings since 2008, first in New York City and, more recently, in Toronto. In both cities, she has sought alternative ways of being together with others that centre the lives, desires, and futures of the people, communities, and land. Her poetry has recently appeared in the minnesota review, The Malahat Review, Fourteen Hills, and PRISM international.

Kathy Ashby

Lauren Best

Joe Bishop

Virginia Boudreau

Angela Bowden

James Byrne

Helen Chang

Janice Colman

Bret Crowle

Jen Currin

Candace de Taeye writes poetry occasionally. Her work has been previously published in Arc, BAD NUDES, Carousel, CNQ, CV2, Grain, Vallum and others. She recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. She has published two chapbooks ‘Roe’ and ‘The Ambulance Act’. The poetry collection “Pronounced/ Workable’ will be published by Mansfield Press fall 2022. During the day, and more often at night she works as a paramedic in Toronto’s downtown core. She lives in Guelph with her partner, kids, some geriatric treefrogs and a 25 lb tortoise.

Dr. Patrick James Errington is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and academic from the prairies of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of two chapbooks of poems, Glean (ignitionpress, 2018) and Field Studies (Clutag Press, 2019), and his collection, the swailing is forthcoming from McGill-Queens University Press in April 2023. Patrick’s poems feature in magazines, journals,

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and anthologies around the world – including Poetry Review, Poetry International, The Cincinnati Review, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Best New Poets, Poets.org, Oxford Poetry, Copper Nickel, West Branch, CV2, Passages North, Diagram, Cider Press Review, and Horsethief – and have received numerous international prizes, including The National Poetry Competition, the Wigtown Poetry Competition, The London Magazine Poetry Competition, the Flambard International Prize, the McLellan Poetry Prize, the Plough Prize, the 2020 Callan Gordon/Scottish New Writers Award, and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award from the Writer’s Trust of Canada. Meanwhile, his French translation (with Laure Gall) of PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphey’s The Hollow of the Hand, entitled Au creux de la main, was released by Éditions l’Âge d’Homme in 2017.

Patrick is currently translating the French-Romanian philosopher E.M. Cioran’s Notebooks: 1957–1975 for New York Review Books, carrying on the work of the late poet and translator Richard Howard, as well as the work of French-Algerian poet and painter Hamid Tibouchi. A graduate of the University of Alberta (Bachelor of Arts, 2011), where he studied under the late Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Patrick holds an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in writing and literary translation from Columbia University (2015) and a PhD for his research in poetic theory and enactive hermeneutics from the University of St Andrews (2018). Having taught at numerous institutions, including the Universities of St Andrews, Dundee, Edinburgh Napier, and Columbia, Patrick is now a Lecturer in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches literature and creative writing and is also the primary and co-investigator on several interdisciplinary research projects.

Sareh Farmand

Tracy Francis

Dharmpal Mahendra Jain Born (1952) and raised in tribal reserve of Jhabua, India, Dharm is a Toronto based Author. He also writes in Hindi.

Kay Kassirer (they/them) is a spoken word poet currently residing on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations - colonially known as Vancouver. Their autobiographical poetry focuses on gender & sexuality, grief, disability, and sex work. Kay has toured internationally performing at venues like Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the Bowery Poetry Club, Busboys and Poets, Write About Now, and Hillside Festival. They have competed at over a dozen national and international poetry slam festivals, earning their place on several competitive final stages. Notably, Kay placed 2nd at Capturing Fire International Queer Slam (2016) while representing Hot Damn! It’s A Queer Slam, and 3rd at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (2018) and the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (2019) while representing Vancouver Poetry Slam. Kay Co-Founded and Directed Voices of Today, a poetry festival run by youth for youth (20172020), and sat on the SpeakNorth Board of Directors (2016-2020). They curated and edited ‘A Whore’s Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers’ published by Thorntree Press. Their work has been featured on Button Poetry, Slamfind, Voicemail Poems, and The Rusty Toque.

Erin Kirsh

Miodrag Kojadinovic

Eimear Laffan

Debbie YJ Lin

Genie MacLeod (she/her) is a writer and editor originally from Vancouver. Her poetry has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine and Funicular and is forthcoming in The New Quarterly and Prairie Fire. During business hours she is a production editor for a children’s book publisher, and at morning, noon, and night she scribbles in notebooks. She lives in Toronto with her husband and toddler. Find her on Twitter at @ geniemak.

Glenn Marais is a creative writer/ singer/songwriter and character educator who uses his writing for healing and hope. He is also a motivational speaker, performer and recording artist, with a passion for social justice advocation. Glenn’s personal and professional mantra, “Give to Live”, encompasses that ideology in his wide-ranging work in the nonprofit sector as Remote Programs Lead with DAREarts, working for over 18 years in fly-in Indigenous communities, formerly with ArtsCan Circle as their Programs Manager, working in seven northern Indigenous Communities, recently completed a contract as the Artistic Outreach Coordinator for the Aurora

Cultural Centre focusing on diversity and inclusion, and with his own company Music in Mind, specializing in music-based education, wellness and healing, self-esteem building, equity and anti-bullying. Glenn is also a facilitator and contract educator for The University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, teaching Intro to Community Music and Music, Health and Wellness. Selfimprovement is a constant in Glenn’s life, having recently completed a Master of Arts Degree at Wilfrid Laurier, Mindfulness and Meditation Certificate at McMaster, Reiki Level II Certification and current enrollment at Trent in the PHD program for Indigenous Studies. Glenn is a published author with a book of poetry, “Dance with Fear, Live in the Light, several children’s stories in development and the recent completion of a musical play, “Jook”. He has been nominated for a Juno award, received the Donald Cousens Community Impact Award for 2021 and numerous other accolades in his work empowering and educating our young people to become the voice of change that we need to see in our world. www.glennmarais.ca

Karen Massey

Lori-Anne Noyahr

KP Parker/Thuyuntamable1 is a personal development leader, selfpublished author, and poet. Born on November 11, 1992, in Toronto Ontario. The author, better known as KP Parker, began writing poetry in 2007. In 2010, Thyuntamable1 turned the craft of writing into a career, developing their style and brand name. In 2015, the author debuted with a poetry book, NAKEDINTHEDARK: Trilogy Book I. Since then, Thyuntamable1 has selfpublished two other books. Leaves Fall In May: Trilogy Book II, released in 2019. Along with their very first literary fiction novel, titled, And So It Begins. One Four Three. Released in 2021. www.Thyuntamable1.com Instagram: Thyuntamable1

Kerrie Penney Nolan Pike kerry rawlinson is a mental nomad. She left Zambia decades ago to explore and landed in Canada. Fast forward: she’s still barefoot, tiptoeing through dislocation & belonging. Awards: Glittery Literary and Edinburgh International flash contest winner; notable poem Best Canadian Poetry; Pushcart nomination; Honorable mention Proverse Press & Fish Poetry contests; finalist for others, e.g. Canterbury Festival; Room; Poetry Society and Palette. Recent work in Rochford Street Review; Drunk Monkeys; Freefall; Prism Review; Duality; Pedestal; O:JA&L; Grain; Epoch; Event Poetry; Prairie Fire, and more. When not challenging established norms, kerry kayaks and drinks too much (tea). kerryrawlinson.com

Julia Polyck-O’Neill (she/they) is an artist, curator, critic, poet, and writer. She is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Visual Art and Art History and the Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University (Toronto) where she studies digital, feminist approaches to interdisciplinary artists’ archives and is a postdoctoral affiliate of the Archive/Counterarchive project. Her writing has been published in Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (The Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History), English Studies in Canada, DeGruyter Open Cultural Studies, BC Studies, Canadian Literature, and other places. Her chapbooks include Material (Model Press), and Everything will be taken away (above/ground press).

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Abiola Regan

Kit Roffey

Leah Schnurr

Paul Serralheiro

Lisa Shen is a writer and spoken word artist based in the Toronto area. Her work centers on feminism and gender-based violence, with secondary focuses on ChineseCanadianism, disability, and queer identity. Lisa was the winner of the 2021 Mississauga Poetry Slam, the 2022 Ink Movement Slam, and the May 2020 Open Drawer Poetry Contest. She was also a Speaker at TEDx McMasterU 2022. She has featured at arts festivals and events across North America, including Word Humboldt, Hamilton Youth Poets, and the JAYU Human Rights Film Festival. Her work has been published by Brickyard Spoken Word and Voicemail Poems, and is forthcoming in Rattle. Lisa is the Director of Sauga Poetry,

Mississauga’s hub for spoken word events. She has led spoken word courses with Workman Arts, and is working with high schools to bring poetry into the classroom. She was awarded the 2022 Buddies Queer Emerging Artists Award for contribution to community, and is dedicated to uplifting spoken word across the Greater Toronto Area. You can learn more about her work at / lisashen.ca and follow her at @itslisashen.

Leanne Shirtliffe Born and raised in rural Manitoba, Leanne Shirtliffe (she/her) is an educator now based in Calgary. Her work has appeared in CV2, Stanchion, One Art, Stoneboat, The FOLD Festival of Diversity program. She is currently at work on her first full-length collection interweaving farming, feminism, and family. See more at LeanneShirtliffe. com, or read her overheard haiku on Instagram: @leanne_shirtliffe.

Mahaila Smith (any pronouns) is a young, enby femme writer, living and working on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg in Ottawa, Ontario. They are one of the co-editors for The Sprawl Mag (thesprawlmag.ca). They like learning theory and writing speculative poetry. Their debut chapbook, Claw Machine, was published by Anstruther Press in 2020.

Allana Stuart (she/her) is an awardwinning poet and a former CBC Radio journalist. She was the first prize winner in Prairie Fire Magazine’s 2021 Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award Contest and was longlisted for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize.

Her poetry has appeared a variety of Canadian and international literary journals. A child of the boreal forest, Allana grew up in Northwestern Ontario and spent many years in Northern BC before settling in Ottawa, where she currently lives with her family.

Brent Talbot

Carol Thornton

Dale Tracy is a faculty member of the English Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She is the author of the poetry collection Derelict Bicycles (Anvil, 2022) and the monograph With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience (McGill-Queen’s, 2017).

Paula Turcotte

Angela Waldie jeremiah wall

Jade Wallace is a poet and fiction writer whose work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Windsor, and the Windsor Endowment for the Arts, and collected in dozen of journals internationally, including PRISM International, This Magazine, and Hermine. Their solo and collaborative chapbooks have been published Anstruther Press, Jack Pine Press, Collusion Books, Grey Borders Books, ZED Press, and Puddles of Sky Press, and their debut full-length poetry collection, Love Is a Place but You Cannot Live There, is forthcoming with Guernica Editions in 2023. They are the inaugural Reviews Editor for CAROUSEL and co-founder of the collaborative writing entity MA|DE, whose chapbook A Trip to the ZZOO was shortlisted for the bpNichol Award, and has been adapted into a full-length collaborative collection, ZZOO, forthcoming with Palimpsest Press in 2025. Keep in touch: jadewallace.ca

Patrick Woodcock

Chuqiao Yang was born in Beijing, raised in Saskatoon, and has lived in Windsor, Ottawa, and Toronto. Her writing has appeared in several journals and broadcasts, including The New Quartertly, CV2, Arc, PRISM and on CBC. In 2011, Chuqiao was the recipient of two Western Magazine Awards. In 2015, she was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her debut chapbook, Reunions in the Year of the Sheep, released with Baseline Press, won the bpNichol Chapbook Award in 2018.

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The LCP would like to extend a big welcome back to our members who have returned to the League this quarter: Mark Battenberg, Jeri Brown, Sarah Burgess, Sarah Burgoyne, Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Paola Ferrante, Kerry Gilbert, Sarah Hilton, T Liem, J. Nichole Noel, Sasenarine Persaud, Pearl Pirie, and carolyn zonailo.