Visual Art Editor

Gazelle Bastan, a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist learned calligraphy and miniature painting at an early age and soon after started seeking compositions and contribution of patterns to represent specific concepts. She received her master’s degree in Art Research from Tehran University in 2013. While earning her BFA at Concordia University she explored abstraction through painting, print, ceramics, and video art, focusing on the concepts of patterns and repetition. She has presented her work in many group exhibitions in Tehran, Damascus, and Montreal.

Poetry Editor

Meryem Yildiz is a poet born and based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Acta Victoriana, carte blanche, yolk, and elsewhere. In 2022, she won The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry as well as the QWF’s carte blanche Prize. Her debut collection is set to be published by Guernica Editions in 2025.

Poetry Editor

Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020) and Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022), and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, & Change, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, and PRISM. He is currently pursuing his MA at Concordia University, where he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Headlight Anthology.

Ficton/Nonfiction Editor

Binh An Nguyen Cuu is a Vietnamese writer and poet living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). She holds a BA Hons. in English Literature with a Minor in Creative Writing from Concordia University. Her previous work can be found in Pixie Literary Magazine, The Encore Poetry Project, and Soliloquies Anthology, for which she worked as a prose editor for the 2022-2023 edition. Her stories are often pulled from silences at the kitchen table, threads of girlhood memories, and ever so haunting questions about ghosts (which she may or may not believe are real).

Fiction/Nonfiction Editor

Santiago Eastman is a Colombian ex-DREAMer who is now (happily) working on his Canadian citizenship. He's currently finishing a double major in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia after his stint in Mechanical Engineering turned out sour. In terms of literature, he's most interested in what makes people tick: class and racial inequalities, different experiences in the LGBTQ+ community, and the crunchy bits that appear when they all mix.

Editor-In-Chief

Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez is all about being gay and being a gay Canadian-born Chilean. If he's not writing, performing or delivering a book for Mes Pants de Queer, you might see him at the gym sauna or any public urinals. He studied Creative Writing at Concordia, but he’s currently on hiatus. His poetry debut can be read in Soliloquies Anthology, Frog Pond Review and LBRNTH magazine.