CONTRIBUTORS
BRITTANI BIRCH braves the cold winters in Toronto, Ontario, along with her partner Anthony and two fearless daughters. On a trajectory to finishing her bachelor’s degree in Justice Studies at the University of Guelph-Humber, she decided to pursue her passion in writing non-fiction. As a writer by day and mommy ninja by night, Brittani hopes to highlight pertinent issues like bullying through narrative. FRASER CALDERWOOD is from Calgary and writes about the space and the light and the strange folks out there. His writing has appeared in FreeFall Magazine, subTerrain, and The New Quarterly. He is living in Toronto and working on his first novel. PAMELA DILLON is a writer and poet. A graduate of creative writing at the University of Toronto, Pamela’s short story “We Come and We Go” and her novel excerpt “As Good as Any Other” won top ten placements in the 2013 and 2015 Penguin Random House of Canada Student Award for Fiction, through UofT School of Continuing Studies. Pamela’s publications can be found in CBC Books – Canada Writes, the Tin Roof Press, the William Henry Drummond / Spring Pulse Poetry Anthology, Allyson Latta’s Memories into Story, The Globe and Mail‘s Facts & Arguments and Travel sections, Oasis, and the online literary journal Don’t Talk to Me about Love where her poem “She Went to Dance” was a finalist in the magazine’s inaugural poetry contest in 2016. Pamela made the poetry long list with the same journal in 2017 and published two additional poems: “The Winter Morning (with apologies to Mary Oliver)”, and “The Practice of Love.” In 2019
her short story “Murmuration” was long-listed for the Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest. Pamela is currently at work on a collection of short stories. NINA DUNIC is a freelance journalist based in Toronto, writing for local and national news organizations. She completed the Humber School for Writers correspondence course for fiction in 2018 and her short stories have since been published in various journals. NEHAL EL-HADI is a writer, researcher, and editor whose work explores the relationships between the body (racialized, gendered), place (urban, virtual), and technology (internet, health). JANN EVERARD’s short fiction has been published in Canada, the USA, and New Zealand in journals including The Fiddlehead, Grain, Geometry, Whitefish Review, The New Quarterly, and Room. Jann was the winner of The Malahat Review’s 2018 Open Season award for fiction. A former health administrator, she divides her time between Toronto and Vancouver Island. EVA H.D. works in a bar. She is the author of the poetry collections Rotten Perfect Mouth and Shiner. MARK ANTHONY JARMAN is an Iowa grad and has published in The Barcelona Review, Brick, The Georgia Review, Queen’s Quarterly, The Group of Seven Reimagined, and The Short Story Advent Calendar 2019. His most recent book is Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, and he is a fiction editor with The Fiddlehead literary journal in Canada. JENNIFER LOVEGROVE is the author of, most recently, the poetry collection Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes (Book*hug, 2017). Her novel Watch How We Walk was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and she also wrote the poetry collections I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel and The Dagger Between Her Teeth. She is
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SOHINI BHATTACHARYA is a Toronto-based freelance journalist and writer. Her writing has appeared in This Magazine, Broadview Magazine (formerly, United Church Observer), University Affairs, M Magazine, and LiisBeth. She also writes regularly for Real Estate Magazine.
