Stan Rogal

Stan Rogal lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US and Europe, some in translation. He is the author of 21 books and a produced playwright.

D.S. Stymeist

D.S. Stymeist’s debut collection, The Bone Weir, was published by Frontenac House Press in 2016 and was a finalist for the Canadian Author’s Association Award for Poetry. Alongside fending off Crohn’s disease, he teaches creative writing at Carleton University. He...

Beth Everest

Beth Everest’s poetry and fiction have been published in journals across the country. She has won numerous awards for her writing and her teaching. Silent Sister: the mastectomy poems (Frontenac House Ltd.) was short-listed for the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book...

Murray Reiss

Murray Reiss has lived on Salt Spring Island, B.C., since 1979. His first book, The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild (Hagios Press), won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best first book of poetry published in Canada in 2013....

Heidi Garnett

Heidi Garnett was born near Gdansk (Danzig) during the Second World War. Prior to being expulsed in 1945-46, her Mennonite family had farmed the delta called the Danziger Werder since the 1570s. Her poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies across...

Harold Rhenisch

HAROLD RHENISCH is from the lost orchard culture of B.C.’s Similkameen Valley and the lost German socialist colony of the Southern Okanagan. After playing Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he studied poetry with P.K. Page, Charles Lillard, Derk Wynand and...