Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. His debut poetry collection, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks, 2013), was awarded the BC Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Abel was an editor for Poetry Is Dead magazine and the former poetry editor for PRISM international and Geist. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from the University of Alberta. His work has been published in journals and magazines across Canada, including CV2, The Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, dANDelion, ARC Poetry Magazine, Descant, Broken Pencil, OCW Magazine, filling Station, Grain, and Canadian Literature. His chapbooks Scientia and Injun have been published by above/ground press and JackPine Press, respectively.
Kathleen Ritter (born 1974) is an artist, curator, and writer based in Vancouver and Paris who focuses on contemporary art.
Tracy Stefanucci was the founder and director of Project Space, a non-profit dedicated to publication as an artistic medium that operated Project Space Press (est. 2012),
the Vancouver Art/Book Fair (est. 2012), and OCW Magazine (est. 2006), and that ran a bookshop/gallery in Vancouver’s Chinatown from 2011 to 2013. She studied in the Master of Publishing program at Simon Fraser University and has a B.Ed. and B.F.A. from the University of British Columbia.
