The Maynard
Spring 2018

Author Biographies

Michael Boccardo

Michael Boccardo’s poems appear in The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, Best New Poets, and the anthologies Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose, and Art on HIV/AIDS (Third World Press, 2010) and Southern Poetry Anthology, VII: North Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2015). He resides in High Point, North Carolina.

Millicent Borges Accardi

NEA fellow, Millicent Borges Accardi, is the author of three poetry collections, including Only More So (Salmon Poetry, 2016) and Through a Grainy Landscape, forthcoming from New Meridian Arts Press in 2021. Among her awards are fellowships from the Fulbright Program, CantoMundo, and Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Frances Boyle

Frances Boyle’s books include the poetry collection This White Nest (Quattro Books, 2019) and Seeking Shade, an award-winning story collection (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2020). Recent and forthcoming publications include Best Canadian Poetry 2020 (Biblioasis, 2020), Blackbird, Bandit Fiction, and EVENT. Originally from Regina, Frances lives in Ottawa.

Laura Cesarco Eglin

Laura Cesarco Eglin is an Uruguayan poet and translator. Her latest poetry collection is Life, One Not Attached to Conditionals (Thirty West Publishing House, 2020). Her translation of Hilda Hilst’s Of Death. Minimal Odes (co.im.press, 2018) won the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. She’s the publisher of Veliz Books and teaches at University of Houston-Downtown.

Ruth Daniell

Ruth Daniell is the author of The Brightest Thing (Caitlin Press, 2019). Recent work appears in Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Press, 2020) and Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press, 2021). She lives in Kelowna, BC.

Sonya Gildea

Sonya Gildea is a selected poet for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions 2021-22. She is winner of: The 2021 John McGahern Award; an Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award; The Cúirt International New Writer’s Award. Published in various literary journals, she is writing the collection 500 Seconds and lives in Dublin, Ireland.

erica hiroko isomura

erica hiroko isomura is a genre-fluid Chinese and Japanese Canadian writer, living in New Westminster, BC/occupied Qayqayt territories. Their writing was selected for Room’s 2021 Emerging Writer Award and won Briarpatch’s 2019 Writing in the Margins contest for creative non-fiction. isomura writes a monthly-ish newsletter called “ritualistic.” | @ericahiroko

Elena Johnson

Elena Johnson’s Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press, 2015) has been translated into the French, as Notes de terrain pour la toundra alpine (Luba Markovskaia, Jardin de givre, 2021). She is an editor for Watch Your Head, a climate crisis anthology (Coach House, 2020), and works as an editor and writing mentor.

Emily Kedar

Emily Kedar’s writing has appeared in Mother Tongue Ink’s We’Moon (2017-2021), The Hart House Review (2011), and Living Hyphen (2021). She writes on the subjects of intergenerational trauma, belonging and the natural world, and the vital impulse toward beauty. She splits her time between Toronto and Salt Spring Island.

Rahat Kurd

Rahat Kurd is a poet and cultural critic. Her new book, The City That Is Leaving Forever, a non-fiction/poetry hybrid co-authored with Kashmiri poet Sumayya Syed, is published with Talonbooks this fall.

Amy LeBlanc

Amy LeBlanc is Managing Editor at filling Station. Amy is the author of two books: I know something you don’t know (Gordon Hill Press, 2020) and Unlocking (University of Calgary Press, 2021). Her writing has appeared in Room, PRISM international, and the Literary Review of Canada, among others.

Kristin LaFollette

Kristin LaFollette is the author of Hematology (Harbor Editions, 2021), winner of the Laureate Prize, and Body Parts (GFT Press, 2018), winner of the GFT Press Chapbook Contest, and is a professor at the University of Southern Indiana. You can connect with her on Twitter @k_lafollette03 .

Kaye Miller

Kaye Miller writes as a guest on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ land. They are a writing student at the University of Victoria, where their fiction recently appeared in This Side of West. They love dinner parties and collecting beach glass.

Clare Owen

London-based artist Clare Owen works largely in ink, digitally, or in many cases, a combination of the two. Working in this way allows her to continue enjoying traditional drawing methods, whilst experimenting with new technology. Inspired by so much in the minutiae of life, she likes to realise dreams.

Bren Simmers

Bren Simmers is the author of four books, including the wilderness memoir Pivot Point (Gaspereau Press, 2019) and Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the Vancouver Book Award. Her most recent collection of poetry is If, When (Gaspereau Press, 2021).

Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith has a passion for reading, poetry, and being outdoors. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English with honours from the University of Lethbridge, and a publishing certificate from Ryerson University. He loves to share literature with others while working at Owl’s Nest Books, an the independent bookstore in Calgary.

Dana Sonnenschein

Dana Sonnenschein teaches at Southern Connecticut State University. Her publications include Bear Country (National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press, 2009), Natural Forms (WordTech Communications, 2006), No Angels But These (Main Street Rag, 2005), and Corvus (Wind, 2003). Recent poems appear in Feminist Studies, Concho River Review, and Gingerbread House.

Ellen Stone

Ellen Stone advises a poetry club at Community High School and co-hosts a monthly poetry series, Skazat! in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her poetry collections are What Is in the Blood (Mayapple Press, 2020) and The Solid Living World (Michigan Writers’ Cooperative Press, 2013.)

Justin Timbol

Justin Timbol is a Filipino-Canadian writer from Mississauga, Ontario. His work has appeared in print and digitally with Wandering Autumn Magazine and Maganda Magazine. Currently, he is a graduate student with the Humber School for Writers.

Charlotte Vermue Peters

Charlotte Vermue Peters is a Canadian writer, searching for a genre; she has published poetry in The Mitre, and had her plays Oh Well and Muse performed in the New Plays Festival. Her high school book reports were also well received. Off the page, she can be found cooking or theatre-making.

Ken Victor

Ken Victor is the author of We Were Like Everyone Else (Cormorant Books, 2019). A recipient of a National Magazine Award for poetry, he’s originally from Massachusetts and now lives in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec, where he has great neighbours and takes long walks.

Phillip Watts Brown

Phillip Watts Brown lives with his husband in northern Utah and works at an art museum. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Common, Ruminate, Spillway, Tahoma Literary Review, and others.

Erin Wilson

Erin Wilson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in CV2, Columba, Canthius, Juniper, and in various publications internationally. At Home with Disquiet, her first collection, was published with Circling Rivers, 2019. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty territory in Northern Ontario, the traditional lands of the Anishnawbek.

Wendy Wisner

Wendy Wisner is the author of two books of poems, and her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Spoon River Poetry Review, Passages North, Nashville Review, and elsewhere.

Susan Zimmerman

Susan Zimmerman’s chapbook, Nothing is Lost, was published by Caitlin Press in 1980. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in literary journals such as Room, The Fiddlehead, Women’s Voices for Change, and SWWIM Every Day, as well as in various anthologies.