Director

Carmen Faye Mathes is a Poetry scholar whose research and teaching focus on British Romanticism in its transatlantic and global contexts. 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

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 is the operations manager of the Montreal International Poetry Prize since 2021.

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.

Book Reviews Editor and Publicity Campaigner

Elena Sénéchal-Becker is the Reviews Editor and Publicity Campaigner with the Montréal International Poetry Prize. She is a PhD student in the department of English at McGill, 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. 

Social Media Manager

Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Sara Belmore is currently in her fourth and final year at McGill studying English literature with minors in English cultural studies and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. Sara is co-Editor-in Chief of, and graphic designer for The Channel English Undergraduate Review and is the Social Media Manager for MIPP.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Irina Zhang is an illustrator originating from upstate NY. She graduated from McGill in 2026 with a degree in English Literature and is currently working at McGill-Queens University Press as a digital marketing and publicity assistant. She’s looking forward to starting a new role as an intern with Penguin Random House soon. Irina loves Russian literature and short stories; her favourite is Nadezhda's The Boarding-school Girl.