Mohini Takhar is a disabled writer and spoken word poet based in Vancouver, traditionally known as the unceded land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She was a featured poet in June 2020 for pulpMAG. More recently, she has performed spoken word across virtual stages such as Vancouver Poetry Slam, Canadian Individual Poetry Slam, Victoria Poetry Project, and Voices of Today. She was a recent finalist in the Voices of Today 2020.

Susan Sanford Blades’ first novel, Fake It So Real, was published by Nightwood Editions in October 2020. Her fiction has appeared in the anthologies The Journey Prize Stories 32: The Best Of Canada’s New Writers and Coming Attractions 16 as well as in literary magazines across Canada and in the United States and Ireland. Her latest short story, “We Did Not Destroy Your Public Library,” as read by actor Andrea Scoretz, can be heard on the debut episode of the Stories Less Spoken podcast (aired December 15, 2020).

Kyla Jamieson is a disabled writer who lives and relies on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room Magazine, Poetry Is Dead, Arc Poetry Magazine, Vallum, Peach Mag, Plenitude, GUTS, and The Account. Her work was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize and her first book-length collection of poems, Body Count, placed third in the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors. Find Kyla on Instagram as @airymeantime.

Roshni Riar is an emerging writer and Creative Writing BFA student at UBC Vancouver. Working primarily in poetry and memoir, she explores the relationships between culture, language, trauma, and identity. As a winner of the 2019 Short Forms Contest, her words have appeared in Room Magazine 43.2. She has poetry appearing in forthcoming issues of The Antigonish Review and CV2 respectively and is a Poetry Reader for Non.Plus Lit and a Contest Reader for Prism International. Find her on twitter @arekayare.

David Ly is the author of the poetry collection Mythical Man (Anstruther Books, 2020) and the chapbook Stubble Burn (Anstruther Press, 2018). His poetry has appeared in PRISM international, Arc Poetry Magazine, The /temz/ Review and elsewhere. He is the Poetry Editor of This Magazine and sits on the Editorial Collective of Anstruther Press.

Tristan Marajh is the 1st-Prize winner of both the Stratford Writing Competition (Canada) and The Free Association Books’ Short Fiction Competition (England). His work can be read in The Nashwaak Review, The New Quarterly, Existere: A Journal of Art & Literature, and more.