Meet Alysha Mohamed! Alysha’s poem, “Partition,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Alysha describes “Partition” in 12 words or less:
“Where love is political; when trauma trickles down generations.”

Alysha Mohamed is a passionate poet, playwright and journalist based in Calgary. She graduated from Queen’s University in 2022 with a BA (Honours) in English and Political Studies. Alysha made her official poetry debut with “Nanima” and “The Colonizer’s Nightmare” in Arc Poetry Magazine, and her articles have been published in outlets including CBC and Maclean’s. She loves poems that burn, heal and subvert all at once.

Meet Ripley Kemp! Ripley’s hybrid piece, “Ouroboros,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Ripley describes “Ouroboros” in 12 words or less:
“Grief eats itself, eats the writer, eats the friend: again, again, again—”

Ripley Kemp (they/he) is from TKARONTO by ways of small-town Ontario. Their writing has been featured in untethered before, as well as in The Ex-Puritan and other publications. Ripley co-founded a pretty rad micropress so long ago that they feel their bones turning to dust just thinking about it. Their lifelong goal is to pet every single dog on Earth. They have a lot of dogs left to go. If you have any dogs, or know any dogs, please direct them Ripley’s way. Ripley also wants you to know that you’re pretty rad, and you are loved.

Meet Lisa Jones! Lisa’s fiction piece, “The Loom,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Lisa describes “The Loom” in 12 words or less:
“After losing her husband, she starts to unravel the fabric of their lives.”

Lisa Jones is a graduate of Simon Fraser’s Writers’ Studio and is undertaking her MA in Social Work. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Raven Short Story Contest, longlisted for the Hummingbird Flash Fiction prize, and has been published in kerning | a space for words, Blank Spaces and emerge 22 anthology. Lisa lives in Uxbridge, Ontario with her partner, daughter, and dog with twenty-seven nicknames.