JORDAN ABEL is the author of three books of poetry, including Injun (which has won the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel is a doctoral graduate in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University, where he specializes in the study of Indigenous literature.
ANDRÉ ALEXIS has published ten books of fiction, including Fifteen Dogs (for which he has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize). Among the many other awards earned by him, he has also won the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in recognition for the merits of his career.
ANNHARTE is a performative, storytelling author with several volumes of poetry, including (among others) Indigena Awry and Coyote Columbus Café. Baker has co-founded the Regina Aboriginal Writers Group and the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba.
DEREK BEAULIEU is a globally renowned maker of visual poetry. Beaulieu has published more than a dozen books, including Kern, Flatland, and How to Write. He has served as the Poet Laureate of Calgary, and he has published hundreds of chapbooks through his micropresses.
GREGORY BETTS is the author of the scholarly treatise Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, and he has published several volumes of poetry, including (among others) If Language and The Others Raisd in Me. Betts is an alumnus of York University, and he teaches at Brock University and University College Dublin.
MYRA BLOOM holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. Bloom specializes in the study of identity politics in the literature of both Canada and Quebec. She is the reviews editor at The Puritan literary magazine, and she teaches in the English department at Concordia University.
CHRISTIAN BÖK is the author of Eunoia (a bestseller that has won the Griffin Poetry Prize). Bök is working on The Xenotext (a poem, encoded into the genome of a deathless bacterium). A Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, he now teaches at Charles Darwin University.
MIKE BORKENT holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, and he specializes in the study of visual poetry, comics, and cognitive poetics. He has published in such journals as Visible Language, Cognitive Linguistics, Canadian Literature, and Literature & Translation.
STEPHEN CAIN is the co-author of Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages, and he has published several volumes of poetry, including (among others) Dyslexicon and False Friends. Cain is an alumnus of York University, where he now teaches Canadian literature.
KIT DOBSON is the author of the scholarly treatise Transnational Canadas, and (with Smaro Kamboureli) he has co-edited a volume of interviews entitled Producing Canadian Literature. Dobson serves on the Board for NeWest Press, and he teaches at Mount Royal University.
LIZ HOWARD is the author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (for which she has won the Griffin Poetry Prize). Howard holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She has published her poetry in such venues as The Puritan and The Capilano Review.
KAIE KELLOUGH is the author of Accordéon (which has been nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award). He is a masterful performer of sound poems, and his collection of poetry, entitled Magnetic Equator, is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart.
SONNET L’ABBÉ is the author of two books of poetry: A Strange Relief and Killarnoe. Her chapbook, Anima Canadensis, has won the 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award. She teaches at Vancouver Island University.
DOROTHY TRUJILLO LUSK is an alumna of the Kootenay School of Writing. Lusk has published several volumes of poetry, including Redactive and Ogress Oblige. Her chapbooks include Oral Tragedy and Volume Delays. She has studied printmaking at the Vancouver School of Art.
DONATO MANCINI is an alumnus of the Kootenay School of Writing. Mancini is the author of several volumes of poetry, including (among others) Ligatures, Aethel, and Buffet World. He is also the author of a scholarly treatise entitled You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence.
LEE MARACLE is the author of several volumes of fiction (including Will’s Garden and Celia’s Song). Maracle has received a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her mentorship of Aboriginals, and she has also received the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
KELLY MARK is a conceptual artist, who holds a B.A. in Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Mark has exhibited her artworks at many global venues, including (among others) The Power Plant in Toronto and the IKON Gallery in Birmingham.
ERÍN MOURE is the author of more than nineteen books of poetry, including Furious (which has won the Governor General’s Award). Moure has translated more than sixteen books of poetry into English, and she has been shortlisted three times for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
JULIA POLYCK-O’NEILL is a doctoral graduate in the program of Interdisciplianary Humanities at Brock University, where she specializes in the study of avant-garde movements in Vancouver. She is also a doctoral fellow for Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC).
KATIE L. PRICE holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Price has co-edited the website for Avant Canada at Jacket2—a website that commemorates the conference Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries, at Brock University on 4–6 November 2014.
MICHAEL ROBERSON holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Calgary. Roberson specializes in the study of contemporary, experimental literature in North America. Examples of his scholarship have appeared in Mosaic and Open Letter.
LISA ROBERTSON is an alumna of the Kootenay School of Writing. Robertson is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including (among others), 3 Summers, The Men, and The Weather. She has received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr University.
ERIC SCHMALTZ is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he specializes in the study of Canadian literature with an emphasis on interdisciplinary poetries. He is the author of Surfaces.
LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON is the author of not only Islands of Decolonial Love (an album of poems and music), but several volumes of nonfiction (including The Accident of Being Lost). An activist in the protests for Idle No More, she has taught at campuses across Canada.
KRISTINE SMITKA teaches English Literature at the University of Alberta. Smitka has co-edited the anthology of essays, entitled Counterblasting Canada (about the academic coteries of Marshall McLuhan). She is also the English reviews editor for Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada.
DANI SPINOSA is a poet who has authored not only a literary chapbook entitled Glosas for Tired Eyes, but also an academic treatise, entitled Anarchists in the Academy. She is also one of the two founding editors of Gap Riot Press.
MOEZ SURANI is the author of three books of poetry, including Operations. Surani has won a variety of prizes for his work, including the Great Blue Heron Poetry Prize from The Antigonish Review. He has won a Chalmers Arts Fellowship for the merits of his writing.
DARREN WERSHLER is the author of The Iron Whim (a treatise about typewriting), and he has published works of poetry (including The Tapeworm Foundry). A founder of Conceptualism, he occupies the Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature at Concordia University.