About

Moderator:

Kate Siklosi’s work includes Selvage (Invisible 2023), leavings (Timglaset 2021), and seven chapbooks of poetry. Her critical and creative work has also been featured across North America, Europe, and the UK. She also curates the Small Press Map of Canada and is co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press.

Panelists:

Dani Spinosa is a poet, scholar, educator, writer, and programmer. She is a sometimes professor, a software developer, a digital and creative project manager, a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, President of Canthius, Managing Editor of the Electronic Literature Directory, and the author of two books: OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible Publishing, 2020) and Anarchists in the Academy (U of Alberta Press, 2018). She has published several chapbooks of poetry and several more peer-reviewed journal articles on poetry. She lives in beautiful Wasaga Beach, Ontario.

Kirby is the author of She, Poetry Is Queer and This Is Where I Get Off. They are the publisher of knife | fork | book, a poetry press based in Toronto about to celebrate their 10th Anniversary.

Leigh Nash is the publisher of Assembly Press, which publishes Canadian and international fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Previously, she was the publisher at House of Anansi Press and Invisible Publishing, and managing editor at Coach House Books; she also cofounded editorial firm Re:word Communications and chapbook press The Emergency Response Unit. Leigh earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph and has published one poetry collection, Goodbye, Ukulele.