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Catherine Graham Catherine Graham is an award-winning novelist and poet. Her sixth poetry collection, The Celery Forest, was named a CBC Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Her debut novel Quarry won an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for fiction, “The Very Best!” Book Awards for Best Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Contemporary Fiction and Fred Kerner Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. Æther: an out-of-body lyric will appear in 2020 with Wolsak and Wynn. www.catherinegraham.com @catgrahampoet

Kelly Norah Drukker Kelly Norah Drukker was born in Montreal, and grew up in the Laurentian region of Quebec. Her first collection of poems, Small Fires (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016) won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Concordia University First Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Petits feux, translated into French by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, was published by Le lézard amoureux in 2018. Kelly currently lives in Montreal, where she is pursuing her interests in creative writing, oral history, and Irish studies through the interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program at Concordia University.

Tunchai Redvers Tunchai Redvers is a two-spirit social justice warrior, writer, and wanderer belonging to Deninu K’ue First Nation. Born and raised in Treaty 8 territory, Northwest Territories, she is now living in Toronto. With a Master of Indigenous Social work, she is the co-founder of We Matter, a national organization dedicated to Indigenous youth hope and life promotion. Recognized nationally and internationally for her work, her advocacy and writing centers the reclamation and indigenization of identity, mental health and healing. She published her debut book, Fireweed, in 2019 with Kegedonce Press at the young age of 25.