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AVA HOMA is a writer, journalist and activist specializing in women’s issues and Middle Eastern affairs. Born and raised in the Kurdistan Province of Iran, Homa now divides her time between Toronto and San Francisco. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor. Her collection of short stories, Echoes from the Other Land , was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Int...

Natalie Zina Walschots, originally from Essex County, is a writer and game designer whose work includes live action role-playing game (LARP) scripts, heavy metal music journalism, video game lore, and weirder things classified as "interactive experiences." Her writing on the interactive adventure The Aluminum Cat won an IndieCade award, and her poetic exploration of the notes engine in B...

Kristyn Dunnion grew up in Essex County, the southernmost tip of Canada, and now lives in Toronto. She is the author of six books, including Tarry This Night and The Dirt Chronicles , a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her short fiction is widely published, most recently in Best Canadian Stories 2020 , Foglifter , Orca: A Literary Journal , and Toronto 2033 . Dunnion works supporting adults with me...

David Ly is a writer and poet based in Vancouver, BC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in World Literature, English, and Creative Writing, and a Master of Publishing degree from Simon Fraser University.  He is the author of the chapbook Stubble Burn (2018.) His poetry has appeared in an array of magazines and anthologies, including The Puritan , carte blanche, The Maynard, Pulp Literature, PRISM intern...

Hana Shafi is a writer and artist who illustrates under the name Frizz Kid. Both her visual art and writing frequently explore themes such as feminism, body politics, racism, and pop culture with an affinity to horror. A graduate of Ryerson University’s Journalism Program, she has published articles in publications such as The Walrus, Hazlitt, This Magazine, Torontoist, Huffington Post , and has b...

Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and lives in Canada. She holds an MA in English from the University of Guelph, writes fiction and poetry, and is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Mootoo’s critically acclaimed novels include Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Valmiki’s Daughter, He Drown She in the Sea , and Cereus Blooms at Night ....

Carol Rose GoldenEagle is a novelist, poet, playwright, visual artist, and musician. She is the author of the award-winning novel Bearskin Diary , published by Nightwood Editions in 2015, which won the Saskatchewan Book Award for its French translation in 2019. A sequel, The Narrows of Fear , will be published in October 2020 by Inanna Publications.  Her novel, Bone Black was released by Nightwood...

Alice Aspinall is a high school mathematics educator and author who lives in Windsor, Ontario. She loves spending time with her husband and two children reading books, playing math games, and exploring the outdoors. She is a strong advocate of the growth mindset. She is continually looking for ways to build young people’s confidence in math and to make math fun, challenging, and satisfying, includ...

Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also serves as the director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education.   She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaa...

The first full-length collection from poet and environmental activist Alison Swan , A Fine Canopy , will be released in October by Wayne State University Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in many publications, including her poetry chapbooks Before the Snow Moon and Dog Heart , the recent award-winning anthologies Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction , G host Fishing: An...

Karen Dionne is the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novel, The Marsh King’s Daughter. It was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons.  Karen has been active in the writing community for over twenty years. She co-founded the online writers community Backspace, organized the Backspace Writers Conferences in New York and the Bahamas, and served...

Esperanza Cintrón is the author of three books of poetry: Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Sunrise (Stockport Flats Press, 2014), the 2013 Naomi Long Madgett Award winner What Keeps Me Sane (Lotus Press, 2013) and Chocolate City Latina (Swank Press, 2005). Her poetry has been anthologized many times. She has been awarded a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, the Metro Times Poetry...

Dr. Heidi L.M. Jacobs was born and raised in Edmonton. A graduate of the University of Alberta, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Western University, she is currently the English and History Librarian at the University of Windsor. Those of you who are regular listeners may recall that we interviewed Jacobs last June, just after the release of her debut novel, Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass...

Carlinda D’Alimonte grew up in Amherstburg and has lived in the Windsor area most of her life. She was Head of English at Walkerville Collegiate Institute, where she taught English and Creative Writing. Prior to her teaching career, she worked for CBC television in Windsor researching and writing for a current affairs program, and for the University of Windsor where she wrote and produced instruct...

Brian G. Gilmore was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters, a 2014 NAACP Image Award Nominee. He is both a Cave Canem Fellow and a Kimbilio Fellow, and he currently teaches social justice law at Michigan State University. Brian joins us today to talk about his Michigan Notable Book of poetry, Come See Ab...

Herb Colling has an abiding interest in, and respect for, local history. His first two books deal with the auto industry in Windsor. He cut his teeth in 1993 on Pioneering the Auto Age , about Windsor as an automotive capital of Canada, and went on to write 99 Days: The Ford Strike In Windsor, 1945 , in 1995, and Turning Points: The Detroit Riot of 1967, a Canadian Perspective . His most recent bo...

Dorothy Mahoney is the author of several poetry collections including, Off-Leash (Palimpsest Press, 2016). Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies, most recently Heartwood, poems for the love of trees (The League of Canadian Poets, 2018). Her haibun, M PATHY, won an Honourable Mention in the Genjuan International Haibun Contest in Japan, 2017.  Dorothy is a former member of the Litera...

The Windsor Review has been in publication for half a century, an important accomplishment for a Canadian literary journal. André Narbonne is a lecturer in English literature and an award-winning poet and fiction writer. He is the fiction editor of the Windsor Review and oversaw the publication of the 50th anniversary issue as the general editor . Marty Gervais is a publisher, poet, developer of t...

Aimée Parent Dunn is the publisher of Palimpsest Press, a local independent literary press. Aimée has a degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Windsor and a graduate certificate in Publishing from Ryerson University. She has over 15 years of experience editing fiction and is the literary fiction editor at Palimpsest. She is on the board for Literary Arts Windsor and the p...

Rebecca Ledingham-Gbadebo grew up in Windsor, Ontario, and attended the University of Windsor. She has been an elementary school teacher since 1995 and a member of Most Precious Blood Catholic Church in Windsor since 1983. She’s also been an avid volunteer around Windsor through the years, committed to causes that benefit children and youth.  Rebecca’s new book, published by Cranberry Tree Press,...

Jeff Kass is a 23-year teaching veteran of Pioneer High School. His book, Teacher/Pizza Guy chronicles Kass’s experiences working as a full-time English teacher, a part-time teen literary arts director, and a part-time pizza delivery driver during the 2016-17 school year. The book travels back and forth between Kass’ experiences in the classroom and the pizza shop.  His poetry addresses some of th...

Born in Somalia, Fartumo Kusow immigrated to Canada in 1991, at the start of the civil war. After arriving in Canada with fluency in Somali and Arabic but with no knowledge of English, she went on to earn an Honours B.A. in English Language and Literature and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Windsor. She is now a high school English teacher for the Greater Essex County District Schoo...

Laurie Smith is a graduate of the Creative Writing program (M.A.) from the University of Windsor.  She has been publishing for over thirty years, as well as editing the work of others and facilitating workshops. She is co-publisher/editor of Cranberry Tree Press in Windsor. Laurie’s work has appeared in many publications across Canada and in the U.S. Collections include menagerie , The Truth about...

Justin Rogers is a Black poet, educator, coach, and editor from Detroit. He most recently has work published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Gramma Press , is author of micro-zine Nostalgia as Black Matilda (Rinky Dink Press 2017) and he released his chapbook Black, Matilda in 2019 with Glass Poetry Press.  He is also the coordinator of InsideOut’s after school program, Citywide Poets. Justin’s journ...

Dorene O’Brien is a Detroit-based creative writing teacher and writer. Her stories have won the Red Rock Review Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the Nelson Algren Award, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Prize, and the international Bridport Prize. She has won fellowships from the NEA and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Review, Madison Review, Chicago Tribune...