Meet Christine Higdon! Christine’s fiction piece, “Courage, My Love” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Christine describes “Courage, My Love” in 12 words or less:
“Wedding day jitters, a necktie, and the uninvited truth.”

Christine Higdon’s novel, Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue was released in September 2023. Her first novel, The Very Marrow of Our Bones, won the Foreword Reviews Editor’s Choice Fiction Prize. Her short fiction won a National Magazine Award and has been published in the Malahat Review, Plenitude and the New Quarterly. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for CBC nonfiction and fiction prizes. The daughter of a Newfoundlander and a British Columbian, she lives sometimes in rural Nova Scotia, but mostly in Mimico, Ontario. There, she writes, works, hooks rugs, worries about the bees and longs for the ocean.

Meet Christina Hennemann! Christina’s poems, “Diary Notes From a Young Self” and “Apus,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Christina describes “Diary Notes From a Young Self” and “Apus,” in 12 words or less:
“Two poems weaving secrets, stargazing and strangeness.”

Christina Hennemann is based on the West Coast of Ireland. Her debut pamphlet, Illuminations at Nightfall, appeared in 2022. She’s a recipient of the Irish Arts Council’s Agility Award 2023 and she was longlisted in the National Poetry Competition. Her work appears in Poetry Ireland, Poetry Wales, Skylight 47, The Moth, York Literary Review, The Storms, Impossible Archetype, Ink Sweat & Tears, Moria and elsewhere.

Meet Matthew Heiti! Matthew’s fiction piece, “Angie’s Family Tree,” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Matthew describes “Angie’s Family Tree” in 12 words or less:
“A tree encroaches on a house. A man encroaches on everyone around him. One of them has to go.”

Born in a meteor crater, Matthew Heiti has published a novel, The City Still Breathing (Coach House Books) and a play Black Dog: 4 vs the wrld (Playwrights Canada Press). His short fiction has appeared in many publications, winning several awards including the Carter V. Cooper Award for Emerging Writer, and Grain magazine’s Short Fiction Contest. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Laurentian University. In his spare time, he is usually working.