Madhur Anand

Madhur Anand is the author of A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada) and This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (Strange Light, Penguin Random House Canada). A New Index was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. This Red Line won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her latest book Parasitic Oscillations was listed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as their top pick in poetry for Spring 2022. She is a full professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph and was appointed inaugural director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research. Kiran Anand-Bauch, her thirteen year-old son who contributed to this collaboration, is a published poet and studies music improvisation.
For more info:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/259994/madhur-anand

Federico Favali

The Italian composer and poet Federico Favali writes music characterized by the use of theatrical gestures, a special sensibility to tone color and a particular interest in blending them.  His poetry is a mixture of images, sounds and thoughts.

As regards the music, his catalogue includes vocal music, an opera, solo instrument compositions and music for ensemble and orchestra. His music is published by Donemus. 

He is also active as a musicologist. Focusing primarily on analysis of contemporary music, his writings have been published by several sites and reviews.
He graduated in piano in Lucca and musicology at the University of Bologna (Italy). He studied composition at the Conservatory of La Spezia, King’s College London, New York University and University of Birmingham (PhD in composition).
His book of poetry ("Canzoniere") will be published very soon. He is working on a second book.

For more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Favali

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Catherine Mwitta

Catherine Mwitta is a creative writing major at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, with prior certification in Journalism from Langara College. While she isn’t posting on her blog theaquilla.com , Catherine works as an editor at Dishsoap Quarterly and PULP Mag, and an editorial assistant at Prism International. She has short stories published in Quarantine Reviews, Random Photo Journal, Otis Nebula, and PULP Mag. Likewise, bylines at Stir Vancouver, RoyalTee Magazine, Malahat Review, SAD Mag, and This Magazine.

Robert Hackett

Born (‘47) and raised in Montreal. First poem printed in early high school. Others appeared in the 60’s in Bishop’s Univ.’s Mitre, of which I became editor after Michael Ondaatje. Coached there by Ralph Gustafson. Read my poems to Frank Scott and Louis Dudek in the 70’s and some were read on CBC’s Anthology. Years later read to a graduate class at Univ. of Montreal. Collected poems now number some 700, including Daylight Lowlevels, a long narrative poem about fighter pilot father’s WWII and Post War mishaps. Law practice put  stopper on attempts to publish. Will artsonglab be my springboard?

Laura Fukumoto

Laura Fukumoto is a Japanese-Canadian poet, playwright, and theatre professional living and working on stolen Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Watuth land. She has read her poetry at the Verses Festival of Words, Vancouver Writer's Fest, and wrote and co-directed "Where the Quiet Queers Are" at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival in 2019. She is a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University's Writer's Studio.

Jasjit Mann

Jasjit Mann is pursuing an English major, with a minor in Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her aim is to get a dog, so together they can spiral into the world of books and poetry. She hopes her future dog will join her in spontaneous adventures. Such adventures could include random tattoos (regret comes after), spending too much money on books and arguing with children when she hogs the swings. When she’s not dreaming about having a dog, she reads, writes (a lot of haiku), and eats too much chocolate. Currently, Jasjit is the senior poetry editor at PULP Mag.

Carrie Jenkins

Carrie Jenkins is a writer and philosophy professor working on unceded Coast Salish territories. Her first novel, Victoria Sees It (Strange Light/Penguin Random House), has been shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Frye Academy Award. Carrie's poetry has been shortlisted for the Indiana Review 1/2K prize and the Malahat Review Far Horizons Poetry Award. Her first full-length book of poetry, Uninvited: Talking Back to Plato, co-authored with historian Carla Nappi, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2020.

For more information:

www.carriejenkins.net

Leanne Boschman

Leanne Boschman’s poetry has been published in Geist Magazine, Prism, Other Voices, Dandelion Magazine, Room, Arc Poetry, and Grain. As well, her poems have been published in several anthologies. Her collection Precipitous Signs: A Rain Journal was published by Leaf Press in 2009; in it she explores colonial narratives of settlement and the lived experience of women in labour markets and domestic settings. Leanne completed her PhD in the Languages, Cultures, and Literacies program at SFU presently teaches English for Vancouver Island University.

Cecil Hershler

Cecil Hershler is a physician, storyteller, actor and poet.  He immigrated from South Africa to Canada in 1974.

His works include a story on a Yiddish poem, which was put to music and broadcast on CBC–Outfront; the movie, The Healing Journey (1992, Ark Films), which incorporated storytelling with myth making and singing, and was aired on Vision TV and Education Network.

 For the past three years, Cecil has been writing poems in narrative prose. 

More recently, Cecil has combined dance choreography with storytelling and told stories that explored his Jewish and South African roots.

melanie brannagan frederiksen

melanie brannagan frederiksen (she/her) lives and writes in Winnipeg, on Treaty One territory. She is the author of the chapbook poseidon's cove, athena's cave (Model Press 2021). Her poems have been published in +doc: a journal of longer poems, The Winnipeg Free Press, Contemporary Verse 2, and Prairie Fire

For more information:

www.melaniebrannaganfrederiksen.ca

Shin Yu Pai

Shin Yu Pai is the author of several books of poetry, including Virga (Empty Bowl, 2021), ENSŌ (Entre Ríos, 2020), Sightings: Selected Works (2000-2005) (1913 Press, 2007)), Aux Arcs (La Alameda, 2013), Adamantine (White Pine, 2010), and Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003). She served as the fourth poet laureate of the City of Redmond, Washington, from 2015 to 2017. She is a three-time fellow of MacDowell and has completed residencies at Taipei Artist Village, Soul Mountain, and The Ragdale Foundation. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

For more information:
https://shinyupai.com/

Angela Rebrec

Angela Rebrec is a writer, singer and graphic artist whose work has appeared widely in journals such as GRAIN, Prairie Fire, EVENT, the Dalhousie Review, Pulp Literature and NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020 Ode to the Small. Her writing has been shortlisted for several awards and contests including PRISM International’s Nonfiction Contest. Angela’s most recent art can be viewed online with Chicago’s Woman Made Gallery. Angela currently facilitates writing and expressive arts workshops for kids and adults of all ages. She lives in Delta, BC with her husband, three children and dog on unceeded Musqueam and Tsawwassen lands.

Dawna Silver

They say not all who seek are lost. This statement accurately defines Dawna Silver’s journey thus far. Having moved through numerous and distinct chapters in life, Dawna has gained awareness of what is of greatest importance to her. As a counsellor, Dawna helps people find the meaning and purpose in life that so many seem to lament the lack of. Finding authentic connections and soulful significance has become the primary focus of Dawna’s life. She aims to lead a fully creative life as a poet, songwriter counsellor or whatever before the journey is over and to live life with joy!

For more information, please visit: www.dawnasilver.com

Carrie Jenkins

Carrie Jenkins is a writer living and working on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Indiana Review 1/2K Prize and the Malahat Review Far Horizons Award. She won the New Philosopher Writers Award for her short story, 'The Woman at Home’, and her first novel, TimeLike, will appear with Strange Light (Penguin Random House Canada) in 2021. Carrie's first collection of poetry, Uninvited, co-authored with Carla Nappi, will be published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2020.

For more information, please visit: www.carriejenkins.net

Tawahum Bige

Łutselk'e Dene, Plains Cree, Two-Spirit, & Nonbinary poet, Tawahum Bige resides on unceded Musqueam/Tsleil-Waututh/Squamish territory. Featured in over-10 lit-journals including Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, Grain Magazine and EVENT Magazine, their Scorpio-moon-ass poems expose growing, resisting and persisting as a hopeless sadboy on occupied Turtle Island. Tawahum completed KPU’s Creative Writing BA-program and Banff Centre’s first-ever Indigenous Spoken Word Residency.

Bill Evans

Bill lives in the Eastern Townships, Quebec, in an old Stone farm house dating to 1840s. He has 3 children and 7 grandchildren and has been writing since his teenage years and more seriously since the 1990s. “Bill is almost illiterate on paper and yet he apparently remains blissfully unaware of the fact” Maths Tutor, School report 1963 His Welsh and Irish descent, Canadian and English public schooling battle it out to produce his pithy humorous verse.

Ludmilla Uhde

I was born in Czechoslovakia where I graduated with M.A.degree in Czech language and literature. From an early age I entered numerous poetry public readings competitions.After I emigrated to Canada in 1968 I completed another M.A. degree, this time in Russian language and literature. I started to write poetry in English in the early eighties and I had some work published. At the present I am a member of Westmount Poetry Group ( Montreal). I write poetry intensively and I participate in public readings.I am attracted to the form of the ballad.

Kim Trainor

Kim Trainor is the granddaughter of an Irish banjo player and a Polish faller who worked in the logging camps around Port Alberni in the 1930s. Her second book, Ledi, a finalist for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award, describes the excavation of an Iron Age horsewoman’s grave in the steppes of Siberia. Her next book, Bluegrass, will appear with Icehouse Press (Gooselane Editions) in 2022. She lives in Vancouver, unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

For more information, please visit: www.kimtrainor.ca

Anne de Nada

Anne de Nada was born in Sydney Australia, traveled to Canada in her early twenties, married, became a Mother of three and was entrepreneur. Her poems are calming, the voice is soft, simple with expressions of love, nature and spirituality.   She enjoys deep meditation, sacred geometry and energy healing.   Her poems express at times the warmth of one's mother's arm. She is enchanted with the wonders of assorted colours in various shapes and sizes as seen in her many beautiful paintings. It is Anne's belief that she is only the holder of the space for the word nymphs to weave their magic.

For more information, please visit: www.annedenada.com

Winston Le

Winston Le is a Vietnamese-Canadian poet who resides in Langley, BC. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and through the Surrey Poet Laureate Program was the Events Coordinator for Asians on Edge, an avant-garde Asian-Canadian diasporic literary event. His poems have been featured in both pulp Mag and filling Station. Most recently, his debut chapbook, translanguaging was shortlisted for the 2018 Broken Pencil Zine Awards.