Notes on Contributors
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Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel's latest project NISHGA (forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart in 2020) is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence and the often invisible intergenerational impact of residential schools. Abel recently completed a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University, and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing.
David Chariandy teaches contemporary literature, especially Black, Canadian, and Caribbean prose forms. He also teaches creative writing and cultural studies. His scholarly criticism has been published widely. He has co-edited three special issues of journals, most recently Transition's issue on "Writing Black Canadas." His first novel, Soucouyant, was nominated for eleven literary awards and prizes, while his second novel, Brother, won the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the City of Toronto Book Award. His latest work of creative non-fiction is entitled I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter.
Karrmen Crey (Stó:lō) is an Assistant Professor of Aboriginal Communication and Media Studies in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, and a member of Cheam First Nation. Her research examines the rise of Indigenous media in Canada since the early 1990s and the institutions of media culture undergirding its proliferation.
Ana María Fraile-Marcos is Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain, where she teaches English Canadian and Postcolonial Literatures, and is the Director of the Master's Degree in Creative Writing. She has been a visiting professor in various universities in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. Her publications include Glocal Narratives of Resilience (2020), Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary (2014), Planteamientos estéticos y políticos en la obra de Zora Neale Hurston (2003), Richard Wright's Native Son, ed. (2007), and numerous chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is the Principal Investigator of the research project "Narratives of Resilience."
Aisha Sasha John is a poet and choreographer whose most recent collection, I have to live (McClelland & Stewart, 2017), was a finalist for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her previous collections include The Shining Material (Book*hug, 2011) and THOU (Book*hug, 2014), which was a finalist for both the Trillium and Relit Book Awards. Aisha's solo performance the aisha of is premiered at the Whitney Museum in 2017, and in 2018 it was presented by the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) and Toronto's 2018 Summerworks Festival. Aisha was the 2018 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto (Scarborough). She was born in Montreal.
Leonie John is a Ph.D. student and scholarship holder at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. She previously studied English, Educational Sciences as well as Physical Education at the University of Cologne, the German Sports University Cologne and the University of Waikato, completing her Master of Education in 2016. Her doctoral thesis is provisionally entitled "The Negotiation of Im/Mobility in Contemporary Anglophone Māori Short Fiction" and has significantly benefited from several research and conference stays in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Leonie's scholarly interests include Indigenous and especially Māori literature, post-colonial and Indigenous theories, mobility studies, memory studies and dystopian fiction.
Lukas Klik is a lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna. His main research interests are contemporary Australian fiction and narrative theory. He was educated in Vienna and Melbourne and obtained both an M.A. in Anglophone Literatures and an M.A. in Russian Studies from the University of Vienna.
Natalie Knight is Yurok and Diné (Navajo) and lives as a guest on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Her book Indigenous Resurgence in the City: Land, Kinship and Nationhood for the Doubly Dispossessed is forthcoming from Fernwood Publishing.
Rebecca Macklin is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, where she...
