Cecily Nicholson

Cecily Nicholson has worked with women of the downtown eastside community of Vancouver for the past ten years and is currently the Coordinator of Funds with the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. She has collaborated most recently with VIVO Media Arts collective, the...

Marcus McCann

Marcus McCann is the author of Soft Where (Chaudiere Books) and eight chapbooks. He was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert and Robert Kroetsch awards, and in 2009 he won the John Newlove Award. A journalist by trade and curious by inclination, McCann is an editor at...

Ken Norris

Ken Norris was born in New York City in 1951. He immigrated to Canada in the early 1970s and quickly became one of Montreal’s infamous Véhicule Poets. One of Canada’s most prolific poets, Norris has always given his readers subtly capricious and edgy poetry that...

Jonathan Ball

Jonathan Ball is the author of Ex Machina (BookThug, 2009) and Clockfire (Coach House Books, 2010). He is the former editor of dandelion, and his writing has appeared across Canada, and in The Believer and Harper’s. We’re happy to have him here at Poetic Edits....

Christine McNair

Christine McNair’s work has appeared in CV2, Poetry is Dead, Prairie Fire, Arc, The New Quarterly, Misunderstandings, The Bywords Quarterly Journal, ditchpoetry.com, and sundry other places. In 2011, she was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch award for innovative...

Aaron Belz

Aaron Belz writes poems into the some of the most surprising occasions and places: an alternate ending to It’s a Wonderful Life, the death of Leslie Neilsen, and a place called Irwindale. Not surprisingly, his approach to editing also comes from a unique angle:...