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No. 234 Spring 2026
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website: amyattas.com ANDREA BISHOP splits her time between Vancouver and Salt Spring Island. Her work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Grain, The Fiddlehead, The Masters Review, Cleaver, and elsewhere. website: andreabishop.ca Bluesky: @andreabishop.bsky.social Instagram: @_andreabishopvanbc QIAN CHENG, an artist who engages with personal narratives through drawing and collaboration, has exhibited widely, including at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver (2025), and been featured in Canadian Art, Art Viewer, and Peripheral Review. website: qiancheng.ca Instagram: @qqqqqian_____ LORNA CROZIER, an Officer of the Order of Canada, has received numerous national awards for her poetry, including the Governor‐General’s Award and three lifetime achievement awards. A new book of prose poems will be published in 2027. DIANA DIMA is a writer living in Toronto. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Augur, Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, and elsewhere. website: dianadima.com Bluesky: @dianadima.bsky.social CARMEN G. FARRELL’s writing appears in leading Canadian journals and newspapers and was a finalist in the 2025 Writers’ Union of Canada Emerging Writer Contest. North Vancouver is home. website: carmengfarrell.com CANDACE FERTILE teaches English at Camosun College in Victoria, BC. MARGARYTA GOLOVCHENKO, a Ukrainian settler‐immigrant, art historian, poet, and critic currently based in Calgary/Moh’kins’tsis/Guts’ists’i/Wîchîspa, is associate reviews editor at ARC Poetry and a founding editor of paper bill press. Instagram: @emerald_hedgehog JOE GORMAN’s work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review. They live and teach in Burlington, ON. STEPHANIE HARRINGTON is a second‐generation settler of Irish descent who lives on the unceded traditional territory of the Ləʷəŋən Peoples (Victoria). She is working on a memoir about her brother Ian, who died in 2020 from toxic drugs. Instagram: @stephmharrington KATH HEALING is a queer, trans, disabled poet from the UK, now in Victoria, BC, on the unceded lands of the Ləʷəŋən Peoples. Their work appears or is forthcoming in PRISM International, CV2, Plenitude, Grain, and The Fiddlehead. website: kathhealing.com Instagram: @kathhealing Facebook: @thekathhealing SOPHIE JAI is a Trinidadian‐Canadian novelist. Her debut novel is Wild Fires (2023). She has been a Writer‐in‐Residence and Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. She lives between Oxford, Manchester, and Toronto. Instagram: @sophie.jai LEIGH KOTSILIDIS, author of Hypotheticals (2011) and Some of Us May Live (2026), has published widely in Canadian journals. She lives in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal). website: leighkotsilidisart.com Instagram: @leighkotsy Facebook: @leighkotsilidis CLAIRE MAJORS grew up as a settler on the unceded territory of the Secwépemc and Syilx Okanagan Nations and now lives on Coast Salish lands. She holds a BFA in creative writing and a BA in Indigenous education. GEORGE MCWHIRTER’s translation of Homero Aridjis’s Self‐Portrait in the Zone of Silence (2023) won the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize. CASSANDRA MYERS is an award‐winning artist and therapist from Tkaronto, ON whose work as a queer, non‐binary, South‐Asian‐Italian, multidisabled, survivor of sexual violence is cinematic and unrelenting in its commitment to specificity. website: cassmyers.com STEVE NOYES’s poems have recently appeared in Pinhole Poetry, Devour, Other Words, The Literary Nest, and Asemana. The Conveyor (2024) won the bpNichol Prize. Instagram: @stevemnoyes JOSÉ EMILIO PACHECO’s Selected Poems, which George McWhirter edited and for which he was principal translator, are being reissued in April 2026. HAYDEN PARK, a high school senior from Southern California, is a writer and musician whose work often infuses music with memory. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Slippery Elm, REDAMANCY Magazine, and Yin Literary Magazine. AYAZ PIRANI was born in Tanzania. His books include a collection of poems, How Beautiful People Are (2022), and another of short stories, Death to America (2024). JESSICA POPESKI is a dis/abled opera singer, professor, and intersectional ecofeminist poet raised in Moscow and Sheffield. Her most recent book is the problem with having a body (2025); grenoside is forthcoming in fall 2026. Instagram: @jessicapopeski DORA PRIETO is a Mexican‐Canadian poet and translator whose debut poetry collection is forthcoming in 2027. She won the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry and is a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. website: doraprieto.com Instagram: @la.tacodelic DANIELA RODRÍGUEZ CHEVALIER, born in Mexico, writes and translates from unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver, BC). Her work has appeared in PRISM International, Volume, and carte blanche. XITLALITL RODRÍGUEZ MENDOZA‘s books include Jaws [tiburón] (2015, winner of the Ignacio Manuel Altamirano National Poetry Prize). She was a member of the Mexican National System of Art Creators in poetry between 2019 and 2021. JOHN STEFFLER, author of seven books of poetry, two novels, and a set of essays—Forty‐One Pages: On Poetry, Language and Wilderness (2019)—was Poet Laureate of Canada from 2006 to 2009. His most recent poetry book is And Yet (2020). RUSSELL THORNTON’s books include Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000‐2025 (2026), and the creative nonfiction, The Tree of My Only Address (forthcoming, 2027). He lives in North Vancouver. Facebook: @russell.thornton.967 RICKY VARGHESE is a psychoanalyst and writer based in Toronto. He is currently at work on his debut novel, The Analyst. CHRISTINE WALDE is an artist, poet, and academic librarian whose work combines library and archival research with interests in artists’ books and multiples, experimental prose, poetry, visual poetry, performance, and the visual arts. website: christinewalde.com Instagram: @du_champagne JADE WALLACE, a queer & disabled writer & critic, is author of a genderless novel and a poetry collection and co‐author of another. website: jadewallace.ca + ma‐de.ca Bluesky: @nycterosea.bsky.social Instagram: @nycterosea Facebook: @NixKittleson Substack: Two Headed Parrot madecollaboration.substack.com JORDAN WILLIAMSON, a poet from London, ON, has published in CV2, Grain, and PRISM International, among others. His debut chapbook is Love’s Little Dojo (2025). Bluesky: @jordjoyce.bsky.social Instagram: @jordjoyce CLAIRE WILMOT, a writer, journalist, and researcher originally from Calgary, AB, is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. Her work was shortlisted for the 2025 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. website: clairewilmot.com Instagram: @clairelwilmot | |
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