Daniel Lockhart
D.A. Lockhart is the author of multiple collections of poetry and short fiction. His most recent work includes Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli (Frontenac House, 2021), Go Down Odawa Way (Kegedonce Press Press, 2021), and Breaking Right: Stories (Porcupine’s Quill, 2021).
His work has appeared widely throughout Turtle Island, including Best Canadian Poetry 2019, the Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, TriQuarterly, The Fiddlehead, ARC Poetry Magazine, and Belt. He is a graduate of the Indiana University – Bloomington MFA in Creative Writing program where he held a Neal-Marshall Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing. He is pùkuwànkoamimëns of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Lockhart currently resides at Waawiiyaatanong and Pelee Island where he is the publisher at Urban Farmhouse Press and poetry editor at the Windsor Review.
Judith Christine Mills
Judith Christine Mills is the author & illustrator of middle reader and young adult novels and picture books (Key Porter, Stoddart and Barefoot Books, U.K.) She is also a painter, sculptor, art medalist, artist educator and content creator. A graduate of Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music’s ‘Living Through the Arts Program’.
She has been the recipient of the Mississauga Arts Award (for literature), six Canadian Children’s Book Centre ‘Our Choice’ awards, been shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association’s Red Maple and Blue Spruce awards, and is a recipient of the Smithsonian Magazine’s Notable Book Award and a PBS Television Recommended Title. She has also appeared on CBC Radio and the Resource Links Best Books lists. She weaves her love of animals, history, and the natural world into her art and stories from her studio in southern Georgian Bay.
Mary Ellen Koroscil
Mary Ellen Koroscil is an award-winning community organizer. She is the founder and Chair of the Mississauga-based Courtney Park Writers’. In 2024, she was recognized with a Mississauga Arts Council Marty Award for her community work. Her short stories and poetry have been published in several anthologies.
Nurjehan Aziz
Nurjehan Aziz is the publisher at Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd. She is the editor of HER MOTHER’S ASHES 1, 2, and 3, and is co-editor of Strangers in the Mirror: In and Out of the Mainstream of Culture in Canada. Born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, she studied in Iran and the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1980.
She is a co-founder of The Toronto South Asian Review, now The Toronto Review, of which she is an editorial board member. She is the publisher at TSAR Publications.
Stella Harvey (Chair)
Stella Harvey’s short stories have appeared in The Literary Leanings Anthology, The New Orphic Review, Emerge Magazine and The Dalhousie Review. Her non-fiction has appeared in Pique Newsmagazine, the Globe and Mail and CBC.
Signature Editions published her first novel, Nicolai’s Daughters, in 2012 and Psichogios Publications of Athens published the Greek translation in 2014. Signature Editions published The Brink of Freedom in 2015. Finding Callidora is Stella’s third novel. Stella founded the Whistler Writing Society, which produces the Whistler Writers Festival and other literary programming under her direction.She mentors students in The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University.