Issue 26 Contributors

L. Acadia is a lit professor at National Taiwan University and member of the Taipei Poetry Collective, with poetry in New Orleans Review, Strange Horizons, trampset, and elsewhere. Connect on Twitter and Instagram @acadialogue

Sharon Berg is a poet, a fiction author, and an historian of First Nations education in Canada. She's published her poetry in periodicals across Canada, as well as in the USA, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, India, and Australia. Her first two books were poetry published by Borealis Press (To a Young Horse, 1979) and Coach House Press (The Body Labyrinth, 1984). This was followed by two audio cassette tapes from Gallery 101 (Tape 5, 1985) and Public Energies (Black Moths 1986). She also published three chapbooks with Big Pond Rumours Press in 2006, 2016 & 2017. Her fiction appeared in journals in Canada and the USA. Porcupine's Quill released her debut fiction collection Naming the Shadows in the Fall of 2019. Her cross-genre history The Name Unspoken: Wandering Spirit Survival School was published in 2019 by Big Pond Rumours Press and received a Bronze 2020 IPPY Award for Best Regional Nonfiction in Canada East. She lives in Charlottetown, Newfoundland, Canada.

Michael Bickford was born in Los Angeles, and escaped north. After an extensive street education, he graduated with a BA and a teaching credential from San Francisco State University. He moved to California’s Redwood Coast from San Francisco in 1990 with his wife and their two children. Mr. Bickford taught middle school for 30 years in San Francisco and Eureka, CA.

Michael is a fellow of the Redwood Writing Project of Cal Poly Humboldt and a founding member of Lost Coast Writers Community, Inc. He writes poetry and fiction in Arcata, California. His work has appeared in Abandoned Mine, Fauxmoir, Seven Gill Shark Review, Ink People Center for the Arts, The North Coast Journal, and Behind the Mask: 40 Humboldt Poets on the Pandemic. His dual-language chapbook, Mrs. Silva Walks to the Azores, A Story in Ten Cantos (with Portuguese translation by 2023 National Book Award winner Bruna Dantas Lobato) is forthcoming this summer from Finishing Line Press.

russell carisse is currently living on unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi’kmaw territory in New Brunswick. Here they have resettled from Tkaronto to an off-grid trailer in the woods, with their family of people and animals, to grow food and practice other forms of underconsumption. russell is the author of three chapbooks, the latest, In The Margins. . .(above/ground press 2024). Their work can be found online and in print. Website: russellcarisse.carrd.co Mastodon: @[email protected]

Gwen Davies is an award-winning writer of fiction, essays, and guidebooks. She teaches writing in several formats in the community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and established and ran a writing retreat, the Community of Writers, at the Tatamagouche Centre, NS. Until she retired recently, Davies reviewed documents as a plain language editor in a variety of fields.

Jeff Dupuis is a writer and editor living in Toronto. He is the author of The Creature X Mystery novels and numerous short stories. Jeff is the editor, alongside A.G. Pasquella, of the anthology Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food, which will be published in 2025 by Dundurn Press.

Ashley Farrelly lives in Calgary, Alberta, where she can see the mountains every day if she squints a little. She works in health care to reduce burnout in front-line workers and likes to write at night in her favourite green chair.

A. Gliss graduated from the University of Iowa studying English education and creative writing. Writing has always been his passion, and he still carves out writing time during the chaos of his first year as a high school English teacher. Whenever he's not reading, writing, or grading papers, you'll find him doing yoga or rewatching episodes of the reality TV show Survivor.

Tasha Hefford (she/they) is a 100% chill net surfer who lives and relies on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She is the editor of Discorder Magazine and you can read her in filling station, Prism International, ti-TCR and Vallum. Found online always at www.tashahefford.com and the 100% dragon science-based MMO (:(: XOXO

Kate Henderson's writing has appeared in literary journals, including filling Station. She lives in Toronto with her family, where she works as an entertainment lawyer. In her spare time, she grows wildflowers, and is writing her second novel.

Anastasia Jill (they/them) is a queer writer living in Central Florida. They have been nominated for Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and several other honors. Their work has been featured or is upcoming with Poets.org, Sundog Lit, Flash Fiction Online, Contemporary Verse 2, Broken Pencil, and more.

Zane Koss is a poet and translator from Invermere, B.C., living in Guelph, ON. He is the author of Harbour Grids (Invisible Publishing, 2022) and co-translator of Hugo García Manríquez’s Commonplace (Cardboard House, 2022), as a member of the North American Free Translation Agreement (aka NAFTA). A second book of poetry, Country Music, is forthcoming with Invisible Publishing in spring 2025, and a second collaborative translation, of Karen Villeda's String Theory, will be published by Cardboard House in fall 2024.

Anson Leung is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s Bachelor of Commerce program. He is an Alberta based writer who loves all forms of writing, including poetry and article writing. In his spare time, he loves playing tennis and board games.

Annick MacAskill is the author of three previously published poetry collections, including Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022), winner of the Governor General's Award. Her fourth book of poetry, Votive, will be published with Gaspereau in 2024. Her fiction has previously appeared in journals including Canthius and Plenitude. MacAskill lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), which is in Mi'kma'ki, the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq.

Luscha Makortoff is a joint English-History major finishing her last year at Simon Fraser University. She has experience in technical and marketing writing, but her true passions are reading too many books at once, sharing historical facts with anyone who will listen, and writing sad, fantastical stories.

Marcie McCauley's work has appeared in Room, Other Voices, Mslexia, Tears in the Fence and Orbis, and has been anthologized by Sumac Press. She writes about writing at marciemccauley.com and about reading at buriedinprint.com. A descendant of Irish and English settlers, she lives in the city currently called Toronto, which was built on the homelands of Indigenous peoples - Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabeg, Huron-Wendat and Mississaugas of New Credit - land still inhabited by their descendants.

Austin Miles is from southeast Ohio. He is the author of the chapbook Perfect Garbage Forever (Bottlecap Press) and has poems published in Osmosis Press, Petrichor, and elsewhere.

Shane Neilson (mad; autistic) is a poet, physician, and critic from New Brunswick. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Literature and Medicine, Prairie Schooner, and Verse Daily. In 2023, he published The Suspect We (Palimpsest Press), a book of poetry concerning disabled lived experience during the pandemic, with fellow disabled poet Roxanna Bennett. Also in 2023, he published Canadian Literature and Medicine: Carelanding with Routledge.

Vanessa Y. Niu is a Chinese-American poet and classical singer who lives in New York City. Her poetry has been featured in The Amsterdam Review, Frontier Poetry, Stonecoast Review, and more. As a studying musician, she can be found experimenting with poetry-to-music relationships and has written text for the modern composition scene at Juilliard (NY and Tianjin), Interlochen (MI), and the Purcell School (London, UK).

Samodh Porawagamage writes about the 2004 tsunami, Sri Lankan Civil War, poverty & underdevelopment, and colonial & imperial atrocities. becoming sam, his debut collection of poetry selected by Jaswinder Bolina, is forthcoming from Burnside Review Press in 2024. These poems are from his completed manuscript All the Salty Sand in Our Mouth, a child's chronicle of the tsunami.

Aaron Schneider is a queer settler living in London, Ontario. He is the founding Editor at The /tƐmz/ Review, the publisher at the chapbook press 845 Press, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing Studies at Western University. His stories have appeared in The Danforth Review, Filling Station, The Ex-Puritan, Hamilton Arts and Letters, Pro-Lit, The Chattahoochee Review, BULL, Long Con, The Malahat Review and The Windsor Review. His stories have been nominated for The Journey Prize and The Pushcart Prize. His novella, Grass-Fed (Quattro Books), was published in Fall 2018. His collection of experimental short fiction, What We Think We Know (Gordon Hill Press), was published in Fall 2021. The Supply Chain (Crowsnest Books) is his first novel.

A writer of Turkish descent, Sarp Sozdinler has been published in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Masters Review, DIAGRAM, Normal School, Vestal Review, Hobart, Maudlin House, and American Literary Review, among other places. His stories have been selected or nominated for anthologies (Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50) and awarded a finalist status at various literary contests, including the 2022 Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Award. He’s currently at work on his first novel in Philadelphia and Amsterdam: sarpsozdinler.com

Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (he/him/his) is a speculative writer of Izzi, Abakaliki ancestry; a finalist for the 2023 Rhysling Award; a nominee for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Best of The Net Award; a data science/analyst techie; and a licensed medical laboratory scientist. He was the winner of the 2021 Write About Now’s Cookout Literary Prize. He has work at Strange Horizon, FIYAH, Uncanny Mag, Nightmare Mag, Augur Mag, Filednotes Journal, Antithesis Journal, Kernel Magazine, Mizna, and elsewhere. He tweets @wordpottersul1.

Madeline Weih-Wadman is a student and writer based in Vancouver, BC. She attended Vancouver Film School’s screenwriting program and is currently pursuing a BFA in creative writing from UBC. Her genres of choice are coming-of-age and body horror, and she focuses on the subjects of girlhood, motherhood, queerness, climate change, and death.

Banchiwosen Woldeyesus (she/her) is a black woman, a teacher, short fiction, and nonfiction writer. She was born in 1980 and raised in Addis Ababa. She has published 400+ posts and essays on her blog, Banchi Inspirations, since mid-2018. She publishes essays, flash stories, and curated reads on This Precious Dark Skin, her newsletter on Substack. She’s a Submissions Reader for Narratively.

Elana Wolff lives and works in Thornhill, Ontario—the ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat First Nations. Elana’s work has recently appeared (or is forthcoming) in The Antigonish Review, Arc, Best Canadian Poetry 2024, DUSIE, FreeFall, Galaxy Brain, Juniper, The Nashwaak Review, and Prairie Fire. Her collection, SWOON, received the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry. Her cross-genre Kafka-quest work, FAITHFULLY SEEKING FRANZ, was released with Guernica Editions in fall 2023.

Nicole Yurcaba (Нікола Юрцаба) is a Ukrainian American of Hutsul/Lemko origin. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Atlanta Review, Seneca Review, New Eastern Europe, and Ukraine’s Euromaidan Press, Lit Gazeta, Bukvoid, and The New Voice of Ukraine. Nicole holds an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University, teaches poetry workshops for Southern New Hampshire University, and is the Humanities Coordinator at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. She also serves as a guest book reviewer for Sage Cigarettes, Tupelo Quarterly, Colorado Review, and Southern Review of Books.