CONTRIBUTORS

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.

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

currently at work on another novel and a poetry manuscript currently nicknamed The Tinder Sonnets. She works at the University of Toronto and divides her time between downtown Toronto and rural Ontario, Canada.

JOSEPH KAKWINOKANASUM is of Cree and Austrian ancestry and is a member of James Smith Cree Nation. He moved to Vancouver, B.C. in 1989 and studied general sciences at Douglas College and Vancouver Community College. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s prestigious 2018 writing program, The Writer’s Studio, and the 2019 Writer’s Studio Graduate Class. Joseph wrote several book reviews for the Coquitlam Public Library and Coquitlam Now and published his short story “The Bicycle” in the 2018 Writer’s Studio Anthology, Emerge. For his manuscript, Woodland Creetures, he was awarded the 2014 Canada Council for the Arts: Creation Grant for Aboriginal Peoples, Writers, and Storytellers. For more of his writing please visit his website, starblanketstoryteller.ca.

CHIDO MUCHEMWA is a writer living in Toronto. Her work has previously appeared in Tincture Journal, Apogee Journal, and in the Bacopa Literary Review. Her short story “Finding Mermaids” was shortlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize in 2015 and published in the anthology Water: New Short Fiction from Africa. Her short story “The Snore Monitor” was shortlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize in 2018 and published in the anthology Hotel Africa: New Short Fiction from Africa. Chido Muchemwa is a PhD Student at the University of Toronto and has an MFA from the University of Wyoming.

JAMES POLLOCK is the author of Sailing to Babylon, which was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry, runner-up for the Posner Poetry Book Award, and winner of an Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association; and You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada, a finalist for the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award for a collection of essays. He is also editor of The Essential Daryl Hine, which made The Partisan’s list of the best books of 2015. James’s poems have been published in the Paris Review, AGNI, Poetry Daily, The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, the National Post, and other journals in the U.S. and Canada; they have also been broadcast on CBC radio, listed in Best Canadian Poetry, and reprinted in anthologies in Canada, the USA, and the UK, including The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry.

MICAELA POWERS is a student in Humber College’s Professional Writing and Communications program. During her undergrad she won the First Place Standing Award in the Department of English for the Class of 2019 from Laurentian University and Penguin Random House. She is currently completing an internship with Culture Magazine.

NEIL PRICE is a writer and educator. His writing has appeared in NOW Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Hazlitt, Canadian Art, and This Magazine.

SHAZIA HAFIZ RAMJI is the author of Port of Being (Invisible Publishing), a finalist for the 2019 BC Book Prizes (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize). It was named by CBC as a best Canadian poetry book of 2018 and received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Shazia’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Best Canadian Poetry 2019, carte blanche, and Quill & Quire. She is at work on a novel.

ZOE IMANI SHARPE is a poet and editor based in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Sang Bleu MAGAZINE, Main Street, Lemonhound, The Puritan, and The Unpublished City – Volume II. Her chapbook, Sullied, was published by Trapshot Archives in 2011.

ALËNA SKARINA was born in Siberia, Russia in 1986. She works in illustration and fine art in Toronto, Canada. Alëna is represented by Reactor Art+Design agency. Her style is known for its hyper-precise linework, hand-done typography, and unique graphic sensibility. Find more at alenaskarina.com.

GEORGE ZANCOLA is a writer of short stories and poems and is forever trying to write a novel. He is a member of InkWell Workshops and has published his work in Open Minds Quarterly (where he won third prize in the 2018 Brainstorm Poetry Contest), the anthology Not Without Us, the Friendly Voice, the Hearing Voices Cafe Newspaper, and two InkWell anthologies. In 2018, he was nominated by InkWell Books for the Journey Prize for his short story “The Experiment.”