Ness Lee

Ness Lee is an illustrator/artist based in Toronto. Her illustrations have been chosen for award publications such as American Illustration 35 and the Society of Illustrators 57 and she has exhibited her ...

Teresa Wong

Teresa Wong is a writer and cartoonist based in Calgary, Alberta. Her comics and illustrated essays have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Walrus. Her first graphic memoir, ...

C.E. Gatchalian

C.E. Gatchalian is a queer Filipino-Canadian author and theatre-maker born, raised and based on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver). A graduate of the the University of British Columbia's Creative ...

Arielle Twist

Arielle Twist is a writer and sex educator from George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan, now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a Nehiyaw, Two-Spirit, trans femme supernova writing to reclaim and ...

R.L. Cagle

R.L. Cagle writes about film and popular culture. His essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, and cineAction! and in such anthologies as Gendering the Nation, Seoul Searching, and ...

Rajinderpal Pal

Rajinderpal S. Pal was named "Best Local Author" by the readers of Calgary's Fast Forward magazine. He also won the Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book for his critically-acclaimed poetry collection ...

Proma Tagore

Proma Tagore was born in Kolkata, India, and immigrated to Canada at the age of four. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, unceded Coast
Salish Territories, and is active in anti-racist, feminist, ...

Jon Furberg

Jon Furberg's passion for literature touched the world of publishing, teaching and, of course, poetry. He was a co-founder of Pulp Press (later to be reborn as Arsenal Pulp Press) a beloved teacher, and ...

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. She has published many books, including novels, short story collections, works of literary history, anthologies and plays. Her 2010 ...

Zena Sharman

Zena Sharman is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate. Sheâs the editor of two books, including the Lambda Literary award-winning anthology The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on ...