Team

Current Organizers and Hosts

Mahak Jain – Organizer, Host, Curator

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Mahak Jain is the author of the picture book Maya, which was a CBC Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and a CCBC Best Book for Kids and Teens starred selection. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in The Journey Prize Stories 28, PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Joyland Magazine, The Humber Literary Review, and Room Magazine. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. Born in Delhi, she has also lived in Dubai, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Montreal. She currently resides in Toronto.

Marcia Walker – Organizer, Host, Curator

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Marcia Walker’s writing has appeared in Prism international, Room, Event, Antigonish Review, University of Toronto Magazine, The Globe and Mail, CBC radio and The Broken Social Scene Story Project by House of Anansi. She has been shortlisted for Prism’s fiction and non-fiction prize and was a finalist for the Lascaux Fiction award. Her play, Recess, was part of Nightwood’s Write From the Hip playwright development program and the 2016 Groundswell Festival. She is the 2016-2017 Jessie London Writer-in-residence.

Ana Rodriguez Machado – Associate Poetry Curator

 

Previous Team Members

Jess Taylor – Founder, host, fiction and poetry curator

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Photo credit Brian St. Denis

Sofia Mostaghimi – Associate fiction curator

Jessica Bebenek – Associate poetry curator

Amanda Childs – Social Media/PR Representative

Hannah Peck – Special Projects Assistant

Ralph Kolewe – Show photographer

Past Volunteers

Jessica Bebenek (show photographer for over a year), Marsha Courneya, Victoria Hetherington, Thomas Dearnley-Davison, Lauren Mitchell, Jeremy Hanson-Finger, Jane Ozkowski, Suzanne Sutherland, Naomi Freeman, Zani Showler, Daria Garvrilina, Vicki Zhang, Bardia Sinaee, Matthew Walsh, Stephanie Coffey, Steve Cassidee (DJ for EW party shows), Nicole Royer. THANK YOU.