The team behind untethered.
Co-founder/Consulting Editor
Stephanie McKechnie is a queer feminist writer, editor, and emcee extraordinaire. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from University of King’s College and a BA in professional and creative writing from York University. She is an expert cat snuggler who likes to spend most of her time with the trees. Though her (usually filthy) feet often lead her elsewhere, this untethered co-founder calls Toronto home.
Managing Editor – Vol.14 and 15
Poetry Editor – Vol. 6.1 to 15
Elena Bentley is a poet, author, and editor living in Treaty 6 territory and the Homeland of the Métis Nation. She holds an MA in English from the University of Toronto. Her poetry has been published in various lit mags and journals, including Arc Poetry, Kiiyaanaan Aykwaa: Us Now, Room, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, and Grain. Her debut poetry chapbook, taliped, was published in Fall 2023 with 845 Press.
Nonfiction Editor – Vol. 14 and 15
Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer, editor, musician, and arts educator whose multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, the climate crisis, and gender-based violence through a surrealist lens. She is the author of But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Finalist for the Pat Lowther Award and Raymond Souster Award), We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Winner of the 2021 Ottawa Book Award), and many solo and collaborative chapbooks. She is the Nonfiction Editor for untethered magazine, a Poetry Editor for Augur, and a member of VII, an Ottawa-based poetry collective.
Guest Fiction Editor – Vol.15
Margo LaPierre is a neuroqueer poet and freelance editor specializing in literary novels, historical novels, and memoirs. She is Arc Poetry’s newsletter editor and a member of the poetry collective VII. She won the 2021 Room Poetry Award and the 2020 subTerrain Fiction Award. She is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
Fiction Editor – Vol.14 and Vol.15
Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and magazines around the world. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions’ MiroLand imprint in 2021. Her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, was published with Radiant Press in spring 2023 and her short-fiction collection, Widow Fantasies, is scheduled for release with Gordon Hill Press in 2024.
Fiction Editor – Vol.13
Tanisha Khan was born in Bangladesh, raised in Toronto and across western Canada. She likes to think she has many homes, her most recent one being Regina, SK. Her writing often explores the elegiac and fractured workings of memory. When it comes to fiction, Tanisha looks for stories that place the shuffle of everyday life under a microscope. She searches for unexpected sentences, and for voices that haunt her day long after she’s finished reading. Tanisha has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon.
We wouldn’t be able to do what we do without the amazing support of our volunteer readers, proofreaders, and copy editors!
Past Readers
Marion Agnew, Holly Allen, Lisa Baird, Stephanie Barnes, Vannessa Barnier, McKenna James Boeckner, Simon Boehm, M.E. Boothby, Michelle Poirier Brown, Victoria Butler, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Edie Reaney Chunn, Conyer Clayton, Kayleigh Cline, Megan Cole, Paul Dagonesev, Abbey Dobbin, Guy Elston, Liana Ernszt, Jann Everard, Alison Fishburn, Chelsea Forbes, Tea Gerbeza, Hollay Ghadery, Tamara Gell, Tolmie Greaves, Meaghan Hackinen, Lana Hall, Sydney Hegele, Sarah Hilton, Margaret Huntley, Amanda Jess, Lesley Kenny, Tanisha Khan, Grace Kwan, Margo LaPierre, Rachel Laverdiere, Courtney Loberg, Taidgh Lynch, Laurie Mackie, Mike Madill, Hana Mason, Victoria Mbabazi, Christina McCallum, Khashayar Mohammadi, Wayne Ng, Kate O’Gorman, Geoff Pevlin, Filipa Pajevic, Samantha Louie Poon, Anna Ralph, Jessica Anne Robinson, Shannon Scott, Rachel Shabalin, Sam Shelstad, Carolynne Siller, Paula Turcotte, Kaitie Vanderschoor, Kelsy Vivash, Kevin Wilson, and Christine Wu.
Past Copy Editors
Elena Bentley, Simon Boehm, Michael Z. Chen, Claire Davis, Alison Fishburn, Joe Howell, Lesley Kenny, Tanisha Khan, Courtney Loberg, Zoe Marner, Emily Menary, Rachel Panico, Geoff Pevlin, Kaitie Vanderschoor, and Kelsy Vivash.
Past Proofreaders
Alasdair, Elena Bentley, C.E. Hoffman, Jack Howstrawser, Tanisha Khan, Lesley Kenny, C. Isa Lausas, Geoff Pevlin, Kendall Rude, Ruth Cowper Szamosi, and Tijana Zderic.
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