Curtain Call

Madhur Anand is the co-author of over 175 peer-reviewed scientific articles and the author of 2 books of poetry, and one book of creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, To Place a Rabbit is forthcoming in May 2025 with Knopf Canada. Her work has garnered two Canada Research Chairs, and the Governor General’s Literary Award. She is a full professor and Director of the Global Change Ecology & Sustainability Laboratory at the University of Guelph.

Vincent Anioke is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and software engineer. His short stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Rumpus, The Masters Review, and Passages North. He won the 2021 Austin Clarke Fiction Prize and was a finalist for both the 2023 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award and the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Perfect Little Angels, his debut short story collection, was released in 2024 and shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize. He is currently working on a novel.

Ronna Bloom’s eighth book of poetry, In a Riptide, will be published in fall 2025 by Brick Books. She loves TNQ for encouraging her prose.

Erin Bow — or Erin Noteboom when she’s writing poetry — is the author of six novels for young readers and three volumes of poetry. Trained as a physicist, she’s also professionally interested in helping scientists learn to tell better stories.

Claire Cameron’s novels include The Bear and The Last Neanderthal. Her memoir, How to Survive a Bear Attack, is available now from Knopf Canada.

Jennifer Cassidy writes from S,ḴŦAḴ/Mayne Island, BC, on the traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ people. Her poetry has appeared in Sea & Cedar and Island Writer, and is forthcoming in an anthology about climate change. Jennifer lives with her partner and children, some chickens, and many plants.

Christy Ann Conlin is a grief literacy educator and death doula. Her collection, Watermark, was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Conlin’s writing has appeared in Best Canadian
Stories, Brick, adda and Guernica.

Paola Ferrante lives with depression. Her debut collection, Her Body Among Animals (Book*hug Press, 2023), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. She won The New Quarterly 2019 Peter Hinchcliffe Prize.

Laurie D. Graham’s fourth book of poetry, Calling It Back to Me, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in 2026. She lives in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough.

Holly Hogan is a seabird biologist and author of Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches in the Age of Plastic. She lives in St. John’s Newfoundland.

David Huebert is the author of Peninsula Sinking, Chemical Valley, and Oil People.

Helen Humphreys is the award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her latest book is Followed by the Lark, a novel about Henry David Thoreau. She lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario.

Tasneem Jamalis the author of two novels: I Never Said That I Was Brave (House of Anansi 2024) and Where the Air Is Sweet (HarperCollins Canada 2014).

Kasia Jaronczyk is a Polish-Canadian artist and writer. She is the author of the novel Voices in the Air (Palimpsest Press, 2025) and a short story collection Lemons (Mansfield Press, 2017). She is a co-editor of an anthology of Polish-Canadian short stories Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction (Guernica Editions, 2017). Her short fiction was short-listed for Bristol Prize 2016 and long-listed for CBC Short Story Prize 2010.

Sneha Madhaven-Reese is the author of the poetry collections Observing the Moon (Hagios Press, 2015) and Elementary Particles (Brick Books, 2023), which was a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award and was longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Her writing has appeared in publications around the world, most recently Amsterdam Quarterly, Juniper, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, and Ricepaper Magazine. She serves on the editorial board of Canthius magazine and lives with her family in Ottawa.

Monica Kidd is a multidisciplinary writer and award-winning journalist, specializing in health and environmental reporting. Her most recent book is The Crane (Breakwater, 2025). She also works as a physician in Calgary.

Dr. Vincent Lam is a Giller prize-winning novelist and a physician. His recent novel On The Ravine explores the human dimensions of the opioid crisis.

Trent Lewin is a Waterloo-based writer, an immigrant to Canada, and an engineer. He’s been published extensively and is currently working on two novels, one of which will be a debut!

Lara El Mekaui is a writer, editor, researcher, and educator, based in Toronto. Currently, she is the lead non-fiction editor at The New Quarterly. Lara teaches writing and communications at The University of Waterloo.

Margaret Nowaczyk is a physician and writer. Her most recent book is Marrow Memory from Wolsak & Wynn Press.

Adam Pottle is a deaf author whose books include the prairie gothic horror novel Apparitions and the dark fantasy musical The Black Drum. He lives in Saskatoon with his wife Deborah and their goldendoodle Valkyrie.

Cate Sandilands is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Her edited book Rising Tides (Caitlin, 2019) also explores small stories for the climate emergency.

Russell Smith is an acquiring editor at Dundurn Press. His new novel Self-Care appears with Biblioasis in September 2025.

Dane de Souza is a Métis Citizen; Indigenous Fire Stewardship Expert; and former wildland firefighter. Born and raised in Treaty 7 Mohkintsis, Calgary, Alberta. Danes work and passion are at the intersection of climate action and Truth and Reconciliation.

Jan Zwicky’s most recent collection of essays is Once Upon a Time in the West, from McGill-Queen’s. Other books include Wisdom & Metaphor and The Experience of Meaning.

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