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Mikka Jacobsen is the author of the essay collection Modern Fables, which won the 2023 Alberta Book Publishing Award for Non-Fiction, and the story collection Good Victory, forthcoming with Freehand Books in February 2025. Her work has appeared in Joyland, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Missouri Review, and Lit Hub, among others. She lives in Calgary, AB, on Treaty 7 territory.

Jamie Kitts is a Co-Managing Editor at Qwerty Magazine, a dyslexia intervention tutor, and a trans woman living on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik People. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in new words {press}, Plenitude, The Malahat Review, and elsewhere. She is also the Homerow Chapbook Series Editor at Qwerty and a contributor to the Egg Poets' collaborative chapbook All Things to Keep You Here.

Kendra Guidolin is a doctoral candidate, writer, and dancer based on the unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. Her work has appeared in carte blanche, Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2), Cosmonauts Avenue, and Arc Poetry Magazine online, among others.

A settler writer, educator, and critic from Kjipuktuk (Halifax), David Huebert (he/him) is Assistant Professor and Co-director of Creative Writing at The University of New Brunswick. David is the author of two poetry collections and two award-winning books of short fiction, Peninsula Sinking and Chemical Valley. His debut novel, Oil People, will be published by McClelland and Stewart in 2024.  

Eliza Ives is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick. 

Emily Skov-Nielsen is the author of The Knowing Animals, published by Brick Books. She works as the Production and Marketing Coordinator for The Fiddlehead and Studies in Canadian Literature.

Gerard Beirne has published three novels, a collection of short stories, and three collections of poetry. His new novel, The Thickness of Ice, is forthcoming in 2024. A Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award winner, he has been shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, and Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. He lectures on the BA Writing and Literature Program at ATU Sligo, Ireland.

Matt Robinson most recent poetry collections include Tangled & Cleft (Gaspereau, 2021) and Some Nights It’s Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work (Gaspereau, 2016). He has won the Grain Prose Poetry Prize, the Petra Kenney Award, and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, among others. He lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS, Canada) with his family.

William Bonfiglio’s poetry has been awarded a Pearl Hogrefe Grant in Creative Writing Recognition Award, the Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, New Letters, PRISM international, and elsewhere.

Grace R. Taylor has worked at The Fiddlehead since 2023. They have a MA in English from the University of New Brunswick and have poems published in The Angle and TransCare+’s Comfort Food Zine. Between 2021 and 2022, they were an editor for Qwerty Magazine, first the Lead Poetry Editor and then a Co-Managing Editor. They are currently the Chair for the Word Feast Literary Festival.