Monica Nathan is a Pushcart-nominated writer whose work has appeared in Barren Magazine, Kros Magazine, and The Feathertale Review. She is a Contributing Editor at Barren Magazine, and spends her time working on a collection of short stories and writing articles in marketing and tech. She lives in Toronto and calls her husband and two kids home. Monica's creative nonfiction essay "Things I Won’t Be Remembered For" is featured in the new BIPOC Solidarities issue of The Fiddlehead.

Jessie Loyer is Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation. She's written for Apex Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books, Prairie Fire, CV2, Canadian Art, the Capilano Review and her poem "wahwâ" is featured in The Fidlehead's new BIPOC Solidarities Issue. She's also a librarian. 

Shannon Webb-Campbell interviews BIPOC Solidarities cover artist Marigold Santos

Marigold Santos pursues an interdisciplinary art practice involving drawn, painted, and printed works, sculpture, tattooing, and sound. Her work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by experiences of movement and migration. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. As a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, she continues to exhibit widely across Canada. Marigold Santos lives and works in Mohkinstsis/Calgary.

ERICA HIROKO ISOMURA is a writer, artist, and cultural producer. In 2021, she received Room’s Emerging Writer Award and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Isomura is working on a book of essays, a poetry collection, and a series of conversations among multi-generational, racialized artists in Canada. ericahiroko.ca. Her poem "re:birth" will appear in the upcoming BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue of The Fiddlehead.  Pre-order your copy today! 

Salma Hussain writes prose and poetry for children and adults. She grew up in the UAE to parents from Pakistan, and moved to Canada as a teenager. Her debut novel for kids and kids-at-heart, The Secret Diary Of Mona Hasan is forthcoming in May 2022 by Tundra/Penguin Random House. Follow: @salmahwrites. 

Salma's story "Scribe" will be featured in the upcoming BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue of The Fiddlehead. Pre-order your copy today!

We're proud to say that the BIPOC Solidarities Special Issue will be the first Fiddlehead issue of 2022. It is available for pre-order now and will be in the mail by the end of January. Don't miss your chance to reserve your copy today! 

Judith Pond holds an MA in German Literature from Queen’s University and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. She has published both literary fiction and poetry in a wide range of Canadian literary magazines, and in Oberon Press (Ottawa)’s Coming Attractions series. Her story "Accident" was featured in the Autumn 2021 issue of The Fiddlehead. 

David Huebert's fiction debut, Peninsula Sinking, won a Dartmouth Book Award and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His latest book of fiction is Chemical Valley (Biblioasis 2021). David teaches literature and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. His story "Leviathan" was featured in the Autumn 2021 issue of The Fiddlehead. 

Nagmeh Phelan is a first-generation Canadian. Her work has appeared in Room, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Minola Review and was featured in the Autumn 2021 issue of The Fiddlehead. Find her @somesomersaults on Twitter