Joan Crate (Suburban Legends) Joan Crate was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Since then she’s lived in several towns and cities in B.C., Alberta, and Saskatchewan. She dropped out of high school, married young… [more]
		Marina Endicott (Good to a Fault and Open Arms) Marina Endicott was born in Golden, BC, and grew up in Nova Scotia and Toronto. She worked as an actor and director before moving to London, England, where she began to write fiction. [more]
		Jesse Patrick Ferguson (Harmonics) Jesse Patrick Ferguson was born and raised in Cornwall, Ontario. He holds a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Ottawa, and he currently resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick… [more]
		Paul Headrick (The Doctrine of Affections) Paul Headrick completed an MA in Creative Writing at Concordia University, and a PhD in English Literature at York University [more]
		Yasmin Ladha (Blue Sunflower Startle) is a Canadian fiction writer, currently working in Muscat, Oman. She completed her BA and MA in English at the University of Calgary. [more]
		Sarah Leavitt (Tangles) writes both prose and comics. Her writing has appeared in Geist, The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Review, The Georgia Straight, and Xtra West. [more]
		Jeanette Lynes (It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems) Jeanette Lynes grew up on a farm in Alice Munro country while “Son of a Preacher Man” played on transistor radios everywhere. [more]
		Clem and Olivier Martini (Bitter Medicine) Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Olivier Martini is a former student of the Alberta College of Arts who lives and works in Calgary[more]
		Saleema Nawaz (Mother Superior) Saleema Nawaz’s fiction has appeared in journals including Prairie Fire, Grain, The New Quarterly, and Prism International and she is an alumnus of the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts [more]
		Susan Olding (Pathologies) Born in Toronto, Susan Olding currently lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario, where she works at the Queen’s University Writing Centre. [more]

 

   

		Clea Roberts (Here Is Where We Disembark) lives in Whitehorse, Yukon on the Takhini River. Her poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Dalhousie Review, [more]
		Stuart Ross (Buying Cigarettes for the Dog) Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. [more]