Nathan Adler is a writer and artist who works in many different mediums, including audio, video, drawing and painting, as well as glass. He has published the indigenous monster novel Wrist, had a story in the anthology The Playground of Lost Toys (Exile Editions), and his writing has appeared in Redwire, Canada’s History, Shtetle, Shameless, and Kimiwan Zine. He is a member of Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation, and lives in Mono, Ontario.
Braydon Beaulieu is a doctoral candidate with the University of Calgary, where he studies creative writing, poetics, science fiction, and digital games. His most recent chapbook is ERASURE: A Short Story.
Andrea Bradley lives, moms and writes in Oakville, Ontario. By day she practices Aboriginal law and by night she attempts to sleep. Her work has been published in Daily Science Fiction, Phobos Magazine and the Globe and Mail.
Chadwick Ginther is the Prix Aurora Award-nominated author of the Thunder Road Trilogy and numerous published short stories. He lives and writes in Winnipeg.
Helen Marshall is a lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. Her first collection of fiction, Hair Side, Flesh Side, won the Sydney J Bounds Award in 2013, and Gifts for the One Who Comes After, her second collection, won the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award in 2015. In 2016 she was awarded the $5,000 Best Story category of the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Awards, and that story appears in Book Six of the annual CVC series anthology (Exile Editions). She also appeared in Book Three and Book Four with shortlisted stories. Helen is currently editing The Year’s Best Weird Fiction to be released in 2017, and her debut novel will be published in 2018.
Rati Mehrotra is a Toronto-based speculative fiction writer whose stories have appeared in AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, Apex Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Inscription Magazine, and many more. Her debut novel, Markswoman, will be published in early 2018.
www.ratiwrites.com Twitter @Rati_Mehrotra
Stephen Michell is an emerging writer living in Toronto. His first novel will be published in 2017.
Dominik Parisien is an editor, poet, and writer. He is the co-editor, along with Navah Wolfe, of several anthologies, including the most recent, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. He is also the editor of Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction (Exile Editions). Dominik’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Shock Totem, ELQ/Exile Quarterly, and several anthologies, including Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and The Playground of Lost Toys. His fiction has twice been longlisted for a Sunburst Award, and longlisted for the $10,000 category of the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Awards.
www.dominikparisien.wordpress.com Twitter @domparisien
Corey Redekop has publsihed two novels, the award-winning Shelf Monkey (Best Popular Fiction Novel, Independent Book Publisher Awards) and the award-nominated Husk (Best Novel, ReLit Award). His short fiction may be found in anthologies such as Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, The Bestiary, The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir, and Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen. Currently, he is cognitively mired in the thematic bog of a hypothetical third novel. He lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Alexandra Camille Renwick treads international and genre boundaries, splitting time between noir, science fiction, and literary fabulism somewhere between Portland, Austin, and Ottawa. Her stories have appeared in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Mslexia, and ELQ/Exile Quarterly, and her collection, Push of the Sky, got a starred review in Publishers Weekly. www.alexcrenwick.com
Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, widely published in journals, anthologies and chapbooks. The first completed book from thecanadaproject is children of air india, un/authorized exhibits and interjections, winner of the Canadian Authors’ Association Award for poetry. She is currently a mentor and instructor for Simon Fraser University, and co-founder of the poetry reading series, Lunch Poems at SFU. With Wayde Compton, she co-edited The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them. Renée was recently appointed Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey. She collects poems about bees.
www.thecanadaproject.wordpress.com
Rebecca Schaeffer lives a life that is either exceedingly interesting or exceedingly boring, depending on who you ask. She gallivants around the world, taking odd jobs to pay the bills, sometimes literary writing related, but mostly translation, marketing, and paper-pushing projects. Her plays have been performed in Edmonton and Vancouver, and she was shortlisted for the 2014 Alberta Literary Awards.
Kate Story is a writer and performer. A Newfoundlander living in Ontario, her first novel Blasted received a Sunburst Award honourable mention. She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Foundation’s K.M. Hunter Award for her work in theatre. Recent publications include stories in the anthologies Carbide Tipped Pens, Playground of Lost Toys, Clockwork Canada, Imaginarium: Best Canadian Speculative Writing 2015, and Gods, Memes, and Monsters. www.katestory.com
Andrew F. Sullivan is from Oshawa, Ontario. He is the author of the novel WASTE and the story collection All We Want Is Everything. He no longer spends his days handling raw meat, boxed liquor or used video games.
Michal Wojcik was born in Poland, raised in the Yukon territory, and educated in Edmonton and Montreal. He has an MA in history from McGill University, where he studied witchcraft trials, medieval monster theory, necromancers, and, occasionally, 17th-century texts about enchanted wheels of cheese. His stories have appeared in Clockwork Canada, On Spec, The Book Smugglers, and Pornokitsch.
Delani Valin is a writer living in a sleepy British Columbian valley. She enjoys vegan cookery, indoor gardening, and petting dogs. She has previously been published in Adbusters Magazine, Soliloquies Anthology, The Sacrificial, Beautiful Minds Magazine, and Portal.
Andrew Wilmot is a writer, editor, and artist living in Toronto. He is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University Master in Publishing program and spends his days writing and painting stupidly large pieces. He works as a freelance reviewer and academic editor, and as a substantive editor with several independent presses and publications. To date his work has been published in Found Press, The Singularity, Glittership, Drive In Tales, and Turn to Ash, and he was the winner of the 2015 Friends of Merril Short Story Contest. His first novel, The Death Scene Artist, will be published in 2018. www.andrewwilmot.ca
Angeline Woon is a Malaysian in Ottawa, who often feels like a mermaid out of water. She edited Flesh, a Southeast Asian urban anthology. Recent publications include short stories in Cyberpunk: Malaysia, the 2016 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide, and Little Basket: New Malaysian Writing 2016. Her work has been performed in theatres, broadcast on radio, and adapted for the Dark Triptych short film trilogy.