“Glacier” by Claire Wahmanholm

Cameron Awkward-Rich is a poet and scholar of transgender theory/expressive culture. He is the author of two collections of poetry -- Sympathetic Little Monster (2016) and Dispatch (2019) -- and his critical writing has been published in Signs, Transgender Studies Quarterly, American Quarterly and elsewhere. Presently, Awkward-Rich is an assistant professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him at www.cawkwardrich.com.

Heather Christle is the author of four poetry collections: The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books), The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books), What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press), and Heliopause (Wesleyan University Press). Her first work of nonfiction, The Crying Book, was published in 2019 by Catapult in the US, and has gone on to be translated into eight other languages. Christle's poems have appeared in The New Statesman, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Poetry. In 2021, she was awarded a Howard Foundation Fellowship in Nonfiction, administered by Brown University. 

Nabina Das is the author of the poetry collections Sanskarnama, Into the Migrant City, Blue Vessel and the forthcoming Anima and the Narrative Limits, as well as a volume of short fiction and a novel. She's a Charles Wallace, Sangam House, and Sahapedia-UNESCO fellowship alumna, and a MFA (Poetry) from Rutgers-Camden. By training a journalist and Creative Writing teacher, Nabina is a 2016 Commonwealth Writers correspondent, a 2011 New York State Summer Writers Conference alumna, and a 2007 Wesleyan Writers Conference fiction fellowship winner. Nabina has co-edited 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalisation and Witness: The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent. Her first book of translations, Arise out of the Lock: 50 Bangladeshi Women Poets in English, is published by Balestier Press, UK..

Liz Howard’s debut collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was published by McClelland and Stewart in June 2021. Howard received an Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction from the University of Toronto, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario, she currently lives, writes, and teaches in Toronto.

Joanne Limburg has published three books of poetry with Bloodaxe, including The Autistic Alice, a book of poetry for children, three non-fiction books and one novel. Her latest book is Letters to my Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism. She lives in Cambridge, UK, where she teaches Creative Writing at Cambridge University's Insititute of Continuing Education.

Conor O’Callaghan is from Ireland and lives in England. He has published five collections of poems, the most recent being The Sun King (2013) and Live Streaming (2017). He has also published two novels, including We Are Not in the World (2021).

Educated at Ibadan and Syracuse, Tanure Ojaide has published twenty-one collections of poetry, as well as novels, short stories, memoirs, and scholarly work. His awards include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region, the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry, and the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award. In 2016 he won both the African Literature Association's Folon-Nichols Award for Excellence in Writing and the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award for the Humanities. In 2018 he co-won the Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Ojaide is currently the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte.

Michael Prior's most recent book of poems, Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020), won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the BC and Yukon Book Prize for poetry. He is recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and Hawthornden Literary Retreat. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Narrative Magazine, PN Review, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series among other publications. He is an assistant professor of English and an ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow at Macalester College.

Medrie Purdham, whose Little Housewolf was published by Véhicule Press (Signal Editions) in 2021, holds a Ph.D. from McGill University and teaches at the University of Regina, Treaty 4. Her work has been published in journals across Canada and anthologized several times in Tightrope Press’s Best Canadian Poetry. She held the City of Regina Writing Award in 2015.

Mark Tredinnick BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), MBA, PhD — is a celebrated poet, essayist, and teacher. His many works of poetry and prose include A Gathered Distance, Almost Everything I Know, Egret in a Ploughed Field, Bluewren Cantos, Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, and The Little Red Writing Book. For twenty-five years, he has taught poetry and expressive writing at the University of Sydney, where he was poet in residence in 2018. His many honours include two of the world’s foremost poetry prizes, the Montreal and the Cardiff.

Rhian Williams is a writer and poetry specialist based in Glasgow, Scotland (rhianwilliamswriting.com). Her academic articles and journalism, and her book, The Poetry Toolkit: The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry (2019), are valued by students and interested readers across the UK, North America and beyond. She recently co-edited an anthology of ‘new nature poetry’ with Maria Sledmere: the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene and sits on the judging panel for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year prize. Rhian writes, reads, and reviews poetry for several magazines, eagerly allowing poetics to shape her thinking and practice.