Klara du Plessis

Klara du Plessis’s debut poetry collection, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her book-length narrative poem, Hell Light Flesh, was adapted and produced as a mono-opera film with composer Jimmie LeBlanc. She also develops an ongoing series of experimental and dialogic literary events called Deep Curation, an approach which posits the poetry reading as artform. She holds a PhD in English Literature and lives in Montreal.

Lisa Fishman

Lisa Fishman has published seven poetry collections, including Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and has appeared in such journals as Granta, VOLT, jubilat, Touch the Donkey, Denver Quarterly, and American Letters & Commentary. With roots in both Montreal and Michigan, she now lives on a farm in Wisconsin and teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

Jim Johnstone

Jim Johnstone is a poet, editor, and critic. He has been involved in small-scale bookmaking since 2004, when he co-founded Misunderstandings Magazine, and has since produced hundreds of ephemeral book objects. Currently, Johnstone runs Anstruther Press—a micropress that makes poetry-based chapbooks and broadsides—from his Toronto apartment with his wife Erica Smith.