Writers
Monique Cuillerier writes about lesbians in space from Ottawa, Canada, where she lives with her cat Janeway and a few too many houseplants. Her fiction has appeared at Diabolical Plots and in various Bikes in Space and Queer Sci Fi anthologies. She is a first reader for Small Wonders and Diabolical Plots and leads the organizing team of Rainbow Space Magic, an online con for queer speculative fiction writers. When not reading or writing, she is running or gardening. In between, she works as a consultant in the non-profit sector and (still) spends too much time on Twitter (@MoniqueAC) and not enough on her website (notwhereilive.ca).
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Jennifer is a photographer, writer, beader, installation artist, Anishinaabe of the Lac Courte Oreilles band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Taíno of the Higuayagua Taíno of the Caribbean, working in film and digital photography, mixed media installation/covert street art, and short fiction. Pulling from her degree in Studio Art from Dartmouth College and teachings from her communities, she regards art as a toolkit for hope, resistance, and medicine.
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Current work:
An evolving multifaceted series—spanning across written, visual, and sound art—rooted in Indigenous Futurism and tackling the interface between tribal and national/international structures
A beaded and illustrated series centering traditional and survival foods within Indigenous culture
A beaded series celebrating Indigenous literatures
A photographic and portrait series investigating the compression, dilation, and rearrangement of light, space, and time
Forthcoming installation piece resurge/alight/burrow viewable at the Chippewa Valley Museum beginning September 2024
Rosemary is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world. She’s written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, the PBS show Elinor Wonders Why, The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids, Ranger Rick, and more, and makes a regular comic strip in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine. She creates acclaimed science books for kids and adults and the nature comic Bird and Moon, which won the National Cartoonists Society’s award for Best Online Short Form Comic and was the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. Her climate change comics were exhibited at AAAS headquarters and the Peabody Essex Museum. She gives engaging talks and workshops to groups of all ages.
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I am a writer, editor, and unrepentant dog person living in Toronto, Canada. I am non-fiction editor of Anathema Magazine and co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African speculative fiction, and the former chief spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society.
I'm also a communications consultant with nearly 10 years of experience crafting strategic communications for multi-national non-profits across the world. My clients include: WE Charity International, ActionAid Nigeria, The BBC World Trust, and the University of Sussex's Institute for Development Studies.
Art by Franco Zacharzewski
Sneha Subramanian Kanta is an award-winning writer and academician with over a decade of international experience. She is the author of five chapbooks, including Every Elegy Is A Love Poem (Variant Lit, 2024), Ancestral–Wing (Porkbelly Press, 2024), and Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020). A finalist for the 2024 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, her collection Hiraeth is published as a digital book with Apple Books and as an audiobook with Penguin Random House Canada. Most recently, her poem “Letter To The Milkmaid” won second prize in the prestigious Priscilla Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry at Canthius. Her poem “Un-Elegy, Or How Water Unmakes A Country” won the Canadian Authors Association – Toronto Poetry Prize.
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Sagan Yee is a media artist and organizer formerly based out of Toronto. Their personal practice includes traditional animation, experimental screen-based digital games, alternative controller collaborations, and speculative fiction. They have spoken about inclusivity, community-building, and game-making in places like Montreal, Austin, San Francisco, Berlin, and Johannesburg. From 2016 to 2020, they were Executive Director of Hand Eye Society, a video game arts non-profit. Currently, they are pursuing an MFA in Design Media Arts at UCLA.
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Illustration by Danielle Taphanel