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Leilani Farha @leilanifarha.bsky.social Global Director, The Shift
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Jacquie Pearce @jacquieink.bsky.social Writer of kids' books, poetry and nonfiction, lover of nature, history and art, living on Canada's west coast.
Elena Johnson @elenajohnson.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor. Probably outside. My book is Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra. Unceded Coast Salish territory, Vancouver, BC.
Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social Immigration and refugee lawyer in the states, librarian in Canada, now a retired dual citizen, moved by justice, music and wilderness, trying to find hope in an ailing and dystopian world.
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Kath Healing @kathhealing.bsky.social queer, trans, disabled, multiple
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David Romanda @romandapoetry.bsky.social Author of three books, including “Your Lover Stabbed in the Streets” (Frontenac House, 2025). https://www.romandapoetry.com
Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social reader writer editor / linktr.ee/RahatKurd / THE BOOK OF Z: https://talonbooks.com/books/the-book-of-z / kashmīran / ahl-e-zubaan / she/they / free palestine
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Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social Poet, essayist, recovering academic in Bellingham, WA. Work in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Iron Horse, Potomac Review, RHINO Poetry, Terrain.org, Whale Road Review. Chapbook: IMPOSSIBLE LESSONS (MoonPath Press). https://jenniferbullis.wordpress.com
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Joanne Betzler (she/her) @jo-betzler.bsky.social I am a late-blooming
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Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social New to this platform!
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
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Leslie Hurtig @lesliehurtig.bsky.social Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.
Janet Kvammen @janetkvammen.bsky.social Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster.
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Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her
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Christopher Patton @artofcompost.bsky.social Poetry + vispo, printing history + paleography, a little of this + a little of that. Angered + activated by the slide of my birth country toward dictatorship. http://artofcompost.ca.
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Colleen Hardwick @colleenhardwick.bsky.social Urban Geographer. Film Producer. Digital Entrepreneur. Former City Councillor. Running for Mayor of Vancouver,
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Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social Author of 4 Poetry collections.. A Translation of Ghazal Mosadeq's "Andarznama" forthcoming with @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Late 2025. 5th Poetry Collection "A Book of Interruptions" forthcoming with @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social Fall 2025
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Emily van Lidth de Jeude @emilyvanartist.bsky.social Social practice artist and writer.
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Warren Dean Fulton @warrendeanfulton.bsky.social Greater Vancouver (Hollywood North) Canada film worker, poet , traveller and poetry book collector
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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.bsky.social Co-owner and Supporters’ Trust co-founder of TSS Rovers ⭐️🏆🏆of League 1 BC.
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Danny Ramadan @dannyramadan.com 🏳️🌈 - Syrian-Canadian author
Crooked Teeth, The Foghorn Echoes, The Clothesline Swing, and The Salma Books.
Lambda winner 🏆. Governor General Finalist 🏆.
Former refugee.
I don’t bite, unless you ask nicely!
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social Author of four poetry collections (most recently Made to Explode, published by W. W. Norton in 2021) and a disability memoir (Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life). Freelancer, teacher, poetry editor for Blair, & DC resident.
Kim Everson @drmom15.bsky.social Hiker, artist, mom, grandma, Believer, writer, statistician, pie cooker, nature lover.
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Anna Swanson @annajswan.bsky.social Writer + Librarian + Wild Swimming | The Garbage Poems (Brick 2025) | The Nights Also (Tightrope 2010) | annaswanson.ca | garbagepoems.com | she/her 🏳️🌈 | no one is free until we all are free
Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social Poet, post-doc, geography lecturer, community-based researcher, journalist. Author of award-nominated “Hesitating Once to Feel Glory” (poems), Nightwood Editions, 2022 and “Gardens Aflame,” (NF) on LEKWUNGEN/WSANEC Garry oak meadows. Part dog, part plant. 
Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social Poet, editor, art lover. Fire and water, earth and air. Tending life in the Frontenac Arch. Yellow Crane, The Rapids, and more www.susangillis.ca
Janet Fretter @janetfretter.bsky.social Writer, editor, general enthusiast.
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Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social Poet and medical writer. Poems in North American Review, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Tar River Poetry, South Carolina Review, Rhino, Louisville Review, Notre Dame Review, Sugar House Review, etc.
National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social Since 1977, Canada’s 🇨🇦 most prestigious awards programs for magazine and digital publishing communities.
Depuis 1977, les programmes de prix les plus prestigieux du Canada 🇨🇦 pour les communautés de l’édition magazine et numérique.
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
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Rhonda Ganz @rhondaganz.bsky.social Poet. Received the ReLit Award for my book Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry. Reganz.com
My mom is 93. She loves chocolate.
Fibre artist using thrifted wool. My excuse for scouring 2nd hand stores.
Proud Elbows Up Canadian.
Lisa C Reynolds @lisacreynolds.bsky.social Canadian Writer & Poet; Durham Region Branch Manager for The Ontario Poetry Society; Membership Chair, League of Canadian Poets; Poetry Liaison, Writers’ Community of Durham Region
Zoe Dickinson @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social Poet; Bookseller; Baker; Human belonging to Duke (dog) and the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher (cat).
Author of:
Public Transit
Interidal: Poems from the Littoral Zone
Staff Picks for Invertebrates (forthcoming, Guernica Editions, 2026).
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
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Phil Shapiro @philshapiro.bsky.social Community builder, open source, PBL, math, keynote speaker, public libraries, ukuleles, #EduSky, maker, folk music, digital inclusion. Library Journal Mover & Shaker 2024. https://opensource.com/users/pshapiro
isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she.
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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social Eco-social justice. Biologist, poet, place-based educator. Indigenous wisdom. Nature photographer. Neurodivergent-affirming. Peter Gabriel music video creator.
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Rose Hunter @rosehunter.bsky.social Poet/writer | my verse memoir BODY SHELL GIRL (Spinifex Press 2022) | current work-in-progress: alcoholism recovery novel
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Tony Biondi @storytimebiondi.bsky.social Artist, writer, and avid tabletop gamer.
Vicki McLeod @vickibythesea.bsky.social West Coast writer, author, artist, dogmom, and beach bum 🇨🇦 she/we. Wild swimmer. I make stuff with words and other bits. Living by the Salish Sea on the traditional ancestral territory of the Snuneymuxw, Snaw-naw-as, and Stzuminus people. A kind of heaven.
DarcieFriesenHossack @darciewrites.bsky.social Author. Feminist.
mreid@bsky.social @mreid.bsky.social poet, gardener, intelligence expert
former Managing Editor at Arc poetry Magazine
former Director at VerseFest
books with Brick, Chaudiere, Anansi, rdc, etc
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
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Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social Independent academic, poet, editor, reviewer, writing and mindfulness mentor. 
Nuria Belastegui @belasten.bsky.social Bilbao, Liverpool, Canada’s West Coast. Educator, reader, walker, occasional writer of art and literature pieces on Medium. Still finding my voice.
Catherine Lewis 🏳️🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers
Vancouver, Canada
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Stephen Karr @stephenkarr.bsky.social Library technician, poet, ecosocialist, in Vancouver.
Al Rempel @alrempel.bsky.social Poetry, Physics, and Photography
Jónína (Nina) Kirton @jkirton.bsky.social I'm an Icelandic/Red River Métis poet, mother, grandmother & wife learning to live with uncertainty. Unsure which origin story to claim I choose science, & the knowing held within cells vibrating every language my Ancestors spoke. I am “Water made flesh."
Susan Juby @susanjuby.bsky.social Proud Canadian. Writer, professor, devoted aunt, indulgent dog owner, oil painting enthusiast.
My newest book is called Contemplation of a Crime. Available this May.
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