Director

Carmen Faye Mathes is a poetry scholar whose research and teaching focus on British Romanticism in its transatlantic and global contexts. Her related interests include literary theory and aesthetics, the history of medicine, and contemporary Canadian poetry. She is the author of Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation (Stanford UP, 2022), a book about aesthetic disappointment and the ethical work of poetry. Her current book project, Poetry’s Postures of Labour and Longing, explores Romantic appeals for social justice by investigating the particular “postures” that poets enact in order to call for change.

Operations Manager

Molly Pearce is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at McGill University. Her research focusses on twentieth-century Canadian and American ecopoetry, book history and small press publishing, and articulations of place and regionality.

Operations Assistant

Born and raised in New York City, Izzi Holmes is currently pursuing an FRQSC-funded MA in English literature at McGill University, where she also completed an Honours BA in English and Psychology (www.izziholmes.com).

Social Media Manager

Ainsley Nice is an undergraduate student at McGill University. Ainsley is in her fourth and final year completing an honours degree in English Literature, focusing on Renaissance poetry, with a minor in Communications Studies. Originally from Rothesay, New Brunswick, Ainsley has enjoyed the chance to engage with the poetry scene in the city of Montreal. In addition to her role as Social Media Manager for the Montreal Prize, Ainsley serves as Social Media Manager for Mcsway Poetry Collective at McGill. 

Book Reviews Editor and Publicity Campaigner

Elena Sénéchal-Becker is the Reviews Editor and Publicity Campaigner with the Montreal International Poetry Prize. She is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at McGill University, where her work investigates the influence of digital culture, disinformation, and wellness narratives on genres like "self-help." She co-founded and runs Groundwork, a generative workshop for queer writers in Toronto, and her work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Poets.ca and The /tƐmz/ Review, among others. She once wrote a poem for a Troye Sivan music video. 

Advisor

Martin Breul is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at McGill University. His FRQSC-funded research explores the publication history of Canadian literature in socialist East Germany during the Cold War. He also researches the representation of refugees in comics, on which he completed his MA research with generous funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). His poetry and flash fiction have appeared in Acta Victoriana, Plenitude Magazine, The Honest Ulsterman, and others, and he has reviewed for Montreal Review of Books and Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics. In 2023, his debut chapbook love poems suck appeared with Montreal-based Cactus Press. He has served as operations manager for the Montreal International Poetry Prize since 2021.