Amber Phillips
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Amber Phillips

Amber Phillips is from a small lakeshore town on Lake Huron and a self-taught photographer.

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Kyungseo Min
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Kyungseo Min

Kyungseo Min is a Korean-Canadian playwright and writer currently based in Montreal. As a Third Culture Kid, her goal is to create a distinctive style of writing blending Western and Eastern philosophies.

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Glen Hogard
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Glen Hogard

Glen Hogard lives in Calgary, Alberta and completed a MA in creative writing at the University of Calgary and an undergrad degree at York University in Toronto.

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Neil B. Bishop
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Neil B. Bishop

Neil B. Bishop is a Canadian educator, translator, and writer. He was born in B.C. and raised mostly in Saskatchewan; he has also lived in Alberta, Ontario, Québec, Newfoundland, and France.

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Marina Dempster
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Marina Dempster

Informed by the patterns and cycles of nature, Marina’s craft is a transmutation of materials, thoughts, and emotions.

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Moni Brar
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Moni Brar

Moni Brar is a settler on the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7 Region and Metis Nation Region 3, also known as Calgary. She is a Punjabi, Sikh Canadian writer exploring diasporan guilt, identity, cultural oppression, and intergenerational trauma.

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Emily Dontsos
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Emily Dontsos

Emily Dontsos holds an Honours B.A. in English Literature from McMaster University and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Toronto, where she served as a co-editor of echolocation, the literary journal of the Graduate Department of English.

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Penelope Woodcroft
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Penelope Woodcroft

Penelope Woodcroft is a poet living in Toronto, Canada. She fell in love with poetry at an early age, reading all the Poe she could get her hands on.

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Jozef Leyden
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Jozef Leyden

Jozef Leyden (pseudonym) lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He was born and raised in Bohemia and lived for a few decades in the Netherlands before he found his home in Canada.

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Amy LeBlanc
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Amy LeBlanc

Amy LeBlanc is a writer and editor from Calgary, Alberta. She is currently non-fiction editor at filling Station magazine and is the author of two chapbooks, most recently "Ladybird, Ladybird" published with Anstruther Press (August 2018).

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Joyce Morgan
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Joyce Morgan

With a mother and brother blessed with natural talents for painting and sketching, and a father dubbed ‘an artist of all trades’, Joyce Morgan was surrounded by creatives as she grew up in Stratford, Ontario.

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Aidan & Leanne Hennebry
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Aidan & Leanne Hennebry

Aidan & Leanne Hennebry are Hush Hush Photography & Film; husband and wife wedding photographers based in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Joanna Aplin
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Joanna Aplin

Born and raised in Kincardine, Ontario, Joanna displayed a natural talent for creating art and a deep desire to cultivate and master that talent.

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Merle Amodeo
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Merle Amodeo

Merle Amodeo was born in Toronto and now lives in the Beaches area of the city. She remembers writing creatively as soon as she could form letters into words.

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