Penny L. Ferguson
Penny L. Ferguson has two published poetry collections, Clarity That Is Darkness (Borealis Press, 2003) and Runaway Suite: Two Voices (Hidden Brook Press, 1997).
Emily Conlon
Emily Conlon is an interdisciplinary artist from Windsor, ON currently based in Saskatoon, SK. She is a second year MFA candidate in Studio Art at the University of Saskatchewan and holds a BFA Honours in Visual Arts from the University of Windsor.
Rod Carley
Rod Carley’s second novel, KINMOUNT, won the Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the 2021 Independent Publishers Book Awards and was one of ten books longlisted for the 2021 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medallion for Humour.
Brigid Cami
Brigid Cami is a geotechnical software developer living in Toronto. Notwithstanding, she has wanted to be a writer ever since she was told, at the age of six, that there is no such thing as a career in wizardry.
John Van Rys
John Van Rys lives on a hobby farm outside Dunnville, Ontario, with his wife, two youngest children, dogs, cats, horses, and free-run egg-laying hens. When he’s not at home caring for animals, he spends his time as an English professor at Redeemer University in Hamilton, teaching literature and writing courses.
Samuel Strathman
Samuel Strathman is a poet, author, educator, and the founder/editor-in-chief of Floodlight Editions. Some of his poems have appeared in White Wall Review, Dreich Magazine, Orange Blush Zine, and elsewhere.
Cindy Patrick
Cindy Patrick At 56, these are Cindy’s formative years. After leaving Calgary, settling in a Sooke rainforest, she works in grocery retail just enough to keep a humble existence.
Robin Pacific
Robin Pacific just completed an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Kings College, Halifax. Based in Toronto, she has had a visual arts practice for twenty-five years.
Aileen Luo
Aileen Luo (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian poet, artist, and graphic designer based in Toronto. Her interests include drinking soup and petting cats.
Caitlin Lindsay
Caitlin Lindsay(she/her) lives and works on the unceded Traditional Coast Salish Lands of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations in what is now known as British Columbia.
V J Hamilton
V.J. Hamilton lives and works in Toronto. “Tattletale” is based on a report from BBC Business Daily on employee monitoring software.
Erica Helder
Erica Helder is an abstract artist working out of her home studio in Brantford, Ontario.
Joe Bongiorno
Joe Bongiorno is a Montreal-based writer and journalist. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Canadian Notes & Queries, Geist, Event, Freefall, Broken Pencil, the The Antigonish Review and CBC.
Elvira Berezowsky
Elvira Berezowsky is a professional communications writer, author, and mother, working from her cold basement office in Edmonton, AB.
Daniel Bay
Daniel Bay is a fiction writer based out of Southern Ontario. After obtaining his B.A. in Geography at York University, he completed his MA in Critical and Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire.
Angela Zheng
Angela Zheng lived in New York City for five years where she first started photography—there was always something interesting to see in the city. She currently lives in southern Ontario where she works as an economist.
Shawn Stibbards
Shawn Stibbards lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. His stories and poems have appeared in Prism international, Grain, Broken Pencil, and Dalhousie Review.
Tristan Marajh
Tristan Marajh’s The Complete Works of Min Ju Kim was awarded 2nd Prize at The Scugog Arts Council’s Ekphrastic Writing Competition (Canada, 2020).
Claudette Manzanares
Claudette Manzanares draws much of her creative inspiration from her upbringing in Northern Ontario, but now calls Acton, Ontario home.