About

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician currently residing on Salt Spring Island BC, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with over 1,600 poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books are ‘The So-Called Sonnets’ (Silenced Press); ‘An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy’; (Cawing Crow Press); ‘Like As If’ (Pski’s Porch); ‘Hearsay’ (The Poet’s Haven).

Jennifer Printz, gravitates towards meditative processes most recently focusing on mixed media work made with a gentle and deliberate mark making that create an intrinsic presence within her work. Printz’ art has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad and has been included in publications as diverse as Tricycle and The Carolina Quarterly. She has been awarded artist residencies at locations such as the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Printz received her MFA from The University of Georgia, has been an active arts leader in a variety of professional organizations and currently teaches drawing at Florida International University in Miami.

Website: https://www.jenniferprintz.com

Instagram: @jenniferdprintz

Ndaba Sibanda, is the author of Notes, Themes, Things And Other Things, The Gushungo Way, Sleeping Rivers, Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache, Of the Saliva and the Tongue, When Inspiration Sings In Silence, The Way Forward, The Ndaba Jamela and Collections and Poetry Pharmacy.

Trisha Panja, an Indian painter, is inspired by rural and urban landscapes, trying to show the amalgamation between them. Focusing on slum areas, Panja’s work explores the change in landscapes and conveys the drastic change of mother nature.

Instagram: @trisha_panja

Guna Moran, is an emerging assamese poet and critic. His poems and literary pieces have been published in national and international magazines, journals, webzines, newspapers, and anthologies. Moran currently lives in Assam, India.

Irma Angélica Bejarle, born in Tijuana, B.C. Mexico, in 1997. Bejarle has an undergrad in Visual Arts from the Autonomous University of Baja California. In 2018 she studied at the Northwest Institute of Photography and later did an internship where she was in charge of digital restoration of images, critical writing and curatorial work. In 2019 she was an academic intern of the Koffler Gallery in Toronto Canada, under the Public Engagement and Education team and further worked for the Koffler Digital platform with the translation of art history essays. While in Canada, she was a panelist and workshop instructor for the Toronto District School Board during the activities of the Latinamerican History month. In 2020 her thesis Radiation: an introduction to UV Photography, was approved with an honorary mention, which she later presented at the Seventh State Meeting of Young Investigators of Baja California, organized by the Autonomous University of Baja California and CONACYT. In the same year, she was selected to form part of the 2020-21 generation of Proyecto Imaginario Latinoamérica, an international formative program for Latinamerican visual artists. She has a trajectory of collective exhibitions both in her hometown of Tijuana and San Diego.

Instagram: @irmaabejarle

Fatima Ijaz, is based in Karachi, Pakistan and teaches English Composition and Speech Communication at IBA. She is a contributing editor at a literary publication – Pandemonium Journal. She graduated in English from Hartwick College, NY and York University, TO. She holds an MA in English Linguistics from Eastern Michigan University, MI. She won first prize at the Mclaughlin Poetry Contest in Toronto (2007). She has participated in poetry and art collaborations which were featured at Music Mela 2019, Art Baithak 2019 and Taseer Art Gallery 2020. Her poetry and prose have been published in or are forthcoming in isacoustic, New Asian Writing, Kitaab, Rigorous, Zau, Praxis, The Write Launch, Red Fez, Whirlwind, Naya Daur, Poetica Review and Aleph Review amongst others.

Website: fatimaijazz.wordpress.com

Instagram: @fatima.ijaz6

Pia Nicotra, born in 1986 in Argentina, lives and works in Florence, Italy. She studied fashion design at Universidad Empresarial Siglo21, graduating in 2011 with a final project about wearable sculptures. She has worked in the fashion industry in Argentina and in Italy for 12 years. In 2018 she started her studies in visual arts at Accademia d'Arte Ad'A (Florence), beginning with one year of painting lessons and completing her education with a Master's course (2019/2020). Currently living between Florence and Prato, where she is furnishing a studio in an abandoned house.

Website: pianicotra.com

Instagram: @pia.nicotra

Miriam Sagan, is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her most recent include Bluebeard's Castle (Red Mountain, 2019) and A Hundred Cups of Coffee (Tres Chicas, 2019). She is a two-time winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards as well as a recipient of the City of Santa Fe Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and a New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award. She has been a writer in residence in four national parks, Yaddo, MacDowell, Gullkistan in Iceland, Kura Studio in Japan, and a dozen more remote and interesting places. She works with text and sculptural installation as part of the creative team Maternal Mitochondria in venues ranging from RV Parks to galleries. She founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College until her retirement. Her poetry was set to music for the Santa Fe Women's Chorus, incised on stoneware for a haiku pathway, and projected as video inside an abandoned grain silo in rural Itoshima.

Website: miriamswell.wordpress.com

Svitlana Ryabishchuk, born 1998 in Cherkasy, Ukraine, lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She migrated to Slovenia in 2011. The artist works in painting and drawing medium. She also practices etching and woodcut techniques. In 2020 she graduated from Academy of fine arts and design, University of Ljubljana, where she continues her MA study. Her work is influenced by Ukrainian national culture, heritage and folklore, soviet iconography and human experience of integration into a new culture and society, concept of motherland and national identity.

Instagram: @dear_svet

John Tavares, born and raised in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Tavares is the son of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores. Having graduated from arts and science at Humber College and journalism at Centennial College, he recently earned a Specialized Honors BA in English Literature from York University. His short fiction has been featured in many media outlets, including community radio and newspapers, as well as print and online journals and magazines in the US, Canada, and overseas. Following a long fascination with economics, he obtained certification in the Canadian Securities Course. His many passions include journalism, literature, photography, writing, and coffee, and he enjoys hiking and cycling.

Instagram: @johntavaresjr

Lea Jazbec, is interested in different media, with a special attention to light. In her work and projects, she purposely moves between media and connects them to each other. She uses drawing as a translation tool to give shape to her ideas. “Drawing is a technique that connects all other techniques.” She believes that concrete research is related to the use of various spatial techniques using different "spatial keys". Looking at one object from different angles, exploring through the visible, to discover and display the hidden or new. Mixed media and multi-media (graphics, collage, sculpture, photography, video, and stop motion animation) are the means by which she shapes and composes site-specific organisms, namely light, sound and video installations. She often works in series, departing from a single work which organically evolves in a step-by-step process. Each new part of the series generates from questions raised by the previous work, and so on.

Website: www.leajazbec.com

Instagram: @leajazbec