Meet the Team

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    Lena Kraus

    Founder, Editor-in-Chief

    Favourite Book: The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow

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    Carly Craig

    Executive Editor

    Favourite Authors: Barbara Kingsolver, George Saunders, Toni Morrison, Jon McGregor

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    Amos O'Connor

    Art Director

    Favourite Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy

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    Julia Guillermina

    Financial Coordinator, Fundraising Coordinator

    Favourite Genres: Historical Novels, Romance Novels, Poetry

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    Wren True

    Workshop Coordinator, Social Media Manager

    “All you have to do is to write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.“
    - Ernest Hemingway

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    Tess Simpson

    Events Manager, Editor

    Favourite Books: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

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    Laura de la Parra Fernández

    Event Manager

    Favourite book: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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    Miriam Huxley

    Social Media Manager, Editor

    Favourite Books: Hotel World by Ali Smith, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

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    Hayley Bernier

    Editor

    "Though experience may resist or elude language, it is the task of the poet to circle what can't be said until something of its smell, sound, taste, and gesture appears on the page." - Lorna Crozier

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    Nicole Christine Caratas

    Editor

    Favourite Books: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

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    Katie Hay-Molopo

    Blog Coordinator, Editor

    Favourite Books: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis, Calvin & Hobbes comics by Bill Watterson

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    M.H. Monica

    Editor

    Favourite Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, etc.

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    Gerry Stewart

    Editor

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    Hanna-Maria Vester

    Editor

    "Whoever first said that poetry is dead failed to provide the autopsy. If poetry is dead, what a rowdy and glorious ghost." - Andrea Gibson

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    Wester Wagenaar

    Website Manager, Editor

    Favourite Authors: Ruth Ozeki, Ted Chiang, Diana Wynne Jones, Naomi Klein

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    Alexia Wdowski

    Editor

    Favourite Authors: Barbara Kingsolver, Murakami, Emily St John Mandel, Olga Tokarczuk, Sophie Mackintosh