The Maynard
Fall 2018

Author Biographies

Conor Barnes

Conor Barnes is a poet, writer, and student living in Toronto. His writing has appeared in Areo Magazine and The Mantle, and his poetry has appeared in Puddles of Sky Press.

Brianne Battye

Brianne Battye is a writer at BioWare where she has contributed to franchises such as Dragon Age and Mass Effect. Outside the world of video games, her poetry has appeared in Contemporary Verse 2 and The /Temz/ Review.

Stephen Bett

Broken Glosa has arisen out of Stephen Bett’s mentorship, at age 15, with PK Page. Bett’s 25th book of poetry. www.stephenbett.com

Heather Bourbeau

Heather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cleaver, Eleven Eleven, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and the anthology Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. She is finishing a collection of 100 100-word stories called “Tart Juice.”

James Cagney

James Cagney is a poet and writer from Oakland, California. He has featured at venues in Sacramento, San Francisco, Vancouver and Mumbai. His book Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory will be published by Nomadic press in August. Visit his blog at thedirtyrat.blog.

Luc Cooper

Luc Cooper is an emerging poet born in Ottawa, Ontario. After completing a year at Algonquin College Luc is now living in Paris and exploring the rest of Europe. Luc has a poem published by the Poetry Institute of Canada in the Young Writers anthology “When Poetry Takes Flight.”

Tom Crosbie

Tom Crosbie is a poet living in Copenhagen. His literary research has focused on Indigenous film, television and the poetry of social media. His PhD is from Yale University and he studied English literature at Memorial University of Newfoundland and La Trobe University.

Adam Day

Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020), and editor of the anthology Divine Orphans of the Poetic Project (1913 Press, forthcoming), as well as Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books). He directs the Baltic Writing Residency and publishes Action, Spectacle.

Alisha Dukelow

Alisha Dukelow’s writing has been published in journals like The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and The Puritan, and she is a finalist for carte blanche’s 2017 3Macs Prize. In Montreal, or Tiotia:ke, the traditional territory of the Mohawk people, she is pursuing an MA in Creative Writing and English Literature.

Christopher Evans

Christopher Evans is a writer and editor from Vancouver, BC. His work has appeared in Grain, Joyland, The Moth, EVENT, Going Down Swinging, and others, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He currently teaches poetry to children.

Yara Farran

Yara Farran is a young Lebanese-Canadian writer and researcher. She has a Masters of Science in Media and Communications, and is working towards developing her first collection of poems.

Ilyssa Goldsmith

Ilyssa Goldsmith’s work has appeared in Canyon Voices, Claudius Speaks, Normal Noise, and elsewhere. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication and graduated Summa Cum Laude. Her thesis explores YA Literature and the problematic label of “strong female character.”

Maura Hanrahan

Maura Hanrahan is a best-selling Canadian author whose writing has won awards in the US, Britain, and Canada. She is Board of Governors Research Chair and Associate Professor in Geography, University of Lethbridge, Alberta. Maura lives in Alberta with her husband, the novelist Paul Butler, and their daughter.

Jeremy Luke Hill

Jeremy Luke Hill has written a collection of poetry and prose called Island Pieces, along with several chapbooks and broadsheets. His writing has appeared in The Bull Calf, CV2, EVENT, Free Fall, The Goose, HA&L, paperplates, Queen Mob’s Tea House, The Rusty Toque, The Town Crier, and The Windsor Review.

Carl Joesf Homolka

Carl Joesf Homolka is a Toronto based writer who has enjoyed the craft since he was a child.He writes mostly music, but as we all know music is just another form poetry. Any pen on paper is good pen on paper, keep the flow going. In real life he’s a film electrician.

Sean Howard

Sean Howard is the author of Local Calls (CBU Press, 2009), Incitements (Gaspereau Press, 2011) and The Photographer’s Last Picture (Gaspereau Press, 2016). His poetry has been widely published in Canada and elsewhere, and featured in The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2017).

Kyla Jamieson

Kyla Jamieson lives and relies on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Is Dead, Room, and others. Her debut chapbook is forthcoming with Rahila’s Ghost Press. Find her at kylajamieson.tumblr.com or on a rock next to a river.

Ann E. Michael

Long established as a poet and essayist in print journals, Ann E. Michael migrated to online literary sites during the 1990s and maintains a blog on poetry, books, nature, and philosophy at www.annemichael.wordpress.com. She lives in eastern Pennsylvania. Her books include Water-Rites, The Capable Heart, and Small Things Rise & Go.

Bhavna Misra

Bhavna is an independent artist, illustrator, and art educator. Her passion lies in painting portraits, landscapes, and objects of everyday life. Oil is her preferred medium but she uses many other media, including pastel, watercolor, and graphite. She describes her style as “careful balance of accuracy and expressionism”.

Amanda Proctor

Amanda Proctor grew up in the mountains of interior B.C., swimming in glacier fed lakes and collecting pebbles for her rock polisher. She recently graduated from Douglas College, and now lives in Vancouver where she is writing poetry and trying not to say “sorry” so much.

Steven Ray Smith

Steven Ray Smith’s poetry has appeared in Slice, The Yale Review, Southwest Review, The Kenyon Review, New Madrid, Tar River Poetry, Flapperhouse and others. New work is forthcoming in Barrow Street, North Dakota Quarterly, and Guesthouse. A complete list of publications is at www.StevenRaySmith.org.

Jade Riordan

Jade Riordan lives in northern Canada; she’s probably cold right now. Her poetry has appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, Fourth & Sycamore, The Malahat Review, NōD, 3Elements Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is a selection committee member (poetry reader) with Bywords.

Caitlin Thomson

Caitlin Thomson has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including: The Adroit Journal, Rust + Moth, Barrow Street Journal, and The Pittsburgh Poetry Review. You can learn more about her writing at www.caitlinthomson.com.

Cara Waterfall

Ottawa-born and Costa Rica-based, Cara’s work has been featured in Event, The Fiddlehead and Room. She won 2018 Room’s Short Forms contest, and was shortlisted for FreeFall’s 2016 Poetry Contest and PULP Literature’s 2017 & 2018 The Magpie Award for Poetry prize.