Ashley Hynd

Ashley is a poet with mixed settler-indigenous ancestry who lives on the Haldimand Tract and respects the Attawandron, Anishnawbe, and Haudenosaunee relationships with the land. She was longlisted for The CBC Poetry Prize (2018), shortlisted for Arc Poem of the Year (2017), and won the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize (2017). Her poetry has appeared in several literary journals and she has performed at a wide-range of literary events.

Samantha jones

Samantha Jones (she/her) is a white settler & Black Canadian poet, scientist, and editor based in Calgary, Alberta on Treaty 7 territory. Her writing appears in THIS, Room, Grain, Watch Your Head, CV2, GeoHumanities, Arctic, and elsewhere. Samantha’s visual poetry chapbook, Site Orientation (2022), is available from the Blasted Tree. Find her on Twitter: @jones_yyc

NATALIE LIM

Sneha Madhavan-Reese

Sneha Madhavan-Reese is the author of the poetry collection Observing the Moon, and her second collection, Elementary Particles, is forthcoming from Brick Books in 2023. She lives with her family in Ottawa.

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Morgan Braid, Treasurer

Morgan lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband and two dogs.  She works in accounting, and has a passion for independent publishing. In her free time, she writes, makes art, and is a volunteer reader for Strange Horizons magazine. You can see her work at notyourmamascowboy.com.

PUNEET DUTT

Puneet is a co-founder of Canthius. Her debut collection of poetry, The Better Monsters (Mansfield Press), was a Finalist for the 2018 Trillium Book Award For Poetry, was Shortlisted for the 2018 Raymond Souster Award, and was named one of “Ontario’s Best Books” by NOW Magazine. Her chapbook, PTSD south beach (Grey Borders Books), was a finalist for the Breitling Chapbook Prize. She holds a MA in English from Ryerson University, is a co-founder of Canthius, and is a creative writing workshop facilitator with the Toronto Writers Collective. Her most recent chapbook manuscript was longlisted for the 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, selected by Carl Phillips. Dutt is an immigrant/settler and currently lives in Markham with her husband and son.

CLAIRE FARLEY

Claire is a co-founder of Canthius and the magazine’s former editor. Her writing has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, and Canadian Literature. Her first chapbook is Bait & Switch (Anstruther Press, 2020).

AMY Leblanc

Amy is a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary and former Managing Editor of Canthius. Amy’s most poetry recent collection, I used to live here, is forthcoming with Porcupine’s Quill. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room, Fiddlehead, Arc, Canadian Literature, and the Literary Review of Canada among others. Amy is a recipient of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and a CGS-D Award for her doctoral research into fictional representations of chronic illness and gothic spaces. She is a 2022 Killam Laureate.

Salma Hussain, director

Salma writes poetry and prose and her fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, The Temz Review, Queen's Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, The Hong Kong Review, Ex-Puritan and Pleiades: Literature in Context. Her young adult novel, The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan, about a young girl's immigration and menstruation journey, was selected for ALA's Rise: A Feminist Book Project List and shortlisted for the Geoffrey Wilson Historical Fiction prize. A chapbook of poems from Baseline Press is in the works for summer 2025. She is on instagram at @salma_h_writes.

Leah MacLean-Evans

Leah was the 2017 fiction winner of the Blodwyn Memorial Prize and the 2018 winner of League of Canadian Poets’ National Broadsheet contest. Her writing has appeared in Qwerty, untethered, ottawater, On Spec Magazine, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and is the proofreader of Grain.

Dani Spinosa, president

Dani is a poet, scholar, educator, writer, and a full-stack developer. She an adjunct professor, a software developer at Hatch Coding, a digital and creative project manager, a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, the Managing Editor of the Electronic Literature Directory, and the author of two books: OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible Publishing, 2020) and Anarchists in the Academy (U of Alberta Press, 2018). She has published several chapbooks of poetry and several more peer-reviewed journal articles on poetry. She lives in beautiful Wasaga Beach, Ontario.

waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy

waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy is Ojibwe of mixed ancestry from Bawating Sault Ste. Marie and Obiishkikaang Lac Seul First Nation. She is mother to a young adult Bear, human to an aging Cat, a poet and writer, and an academic living and working on Lekwungen territory in Victoria, BC.