For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Joining Amanda Leduc, Therese Estacion is our Creative Nonfiction Editor for the issue!
Therese Estacion is the author of Phantompains (Book*hug Press), a poetry collection that explores her Filipinx heritage and physical disability. In 2021, the book was a finalist for both the Foreword INDIES Award for Poetry and the Firecracker Award for Poetry. She has been a guest editor for Arc Poetry magazine and Feels zine, and curated Smutburger’s 2023-2024 series. Based in Toronto, Estacion has been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and is training as a psychotherapist.
If you are a disabled author and would like to submit to the issue, check out the full call for submissions here!
