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Chelene Knight is an award-winning Vancouver-based writer whose recent works have explored carved-out pasts across the city. She is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the memoir […]

Alessandra Naccarato was born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto). Her debut poetry collection, Re-Origin of Species, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial […]

Joseph Dandurand is a storyteller, poet, playwright and member of Kwantlen First Nation located on the Fraser River. He is the director of the Kwantlen Cultural Centre and has authored […]

Ali Blythe is the author of three books exploring trans-poetics: the debut collection Twoism, the follow-up Hymnswitch, and the forthcoming Stedfast, all with Gooselane-Icehouse. His award-winning work has been called intelligent, charming, jangly, jarring, moody, dreamy […]

Arborophobia is Nancy Holmes‘s sixth collection of poetry. She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems and is a poetry editor on The Trumpeter. She creates, […]

Cecily Nicholson is the author of four books, and past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. She has held the Ellen […]

Larissa Lai is the author of The Tiger Flu, Salt Fish Girl, and Iron Goddess of Mercy. Recipient of the Duggins Novelist’s Prize, the Lambda Award, and the Astraea Award, she holds a […]

Julie Sze is a professor of American Studies and founding director of the Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Davis. She has authored and edited three books and […]

Tawahum Bige is a Łutselk’e Dene, Plains Cree poet living on unceded Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh territory. Bige has a B.A. in creative writing from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Their land […]

Rasiqra Revulva is a multi-media artist, writer, poet, editor, musician, performer with the electronic duo The Databats, and sci-com (science-communication) advocate. She is the co-creator, developer and editor for The […]

Tolu Oloruntoba lived in Nigeria and the United States before settling in the metro area of Coast Salish lands known as Vancouver with his family. He spent his early career […]

Justene Dion-Glowa is a queer Métis creative, beadworker and poet born in Win-Nipi (Winnipeg) and has been residing in Secwepemcúl’ecw since 2014, where they work with Indigenous youth. They are […]