Johanna Gibson (she/they) is an recent English MA graduate student with an academic focus on queerness and disability in science fiction stories. She is also a recent BA Honours graduate from Dalhousie. Johanna is a singer, songwriter and poet who has been writing and performing in Halifax since 2020. Her work leans into a simplistic, DIY folk and punk ethos. Prior to moving here, they lived in Ottawa, Montreal, and Glasgow, Scotland. You can usually find Johanna dressed head-to-toe in purple in a constant rotation of Halifax cafes and pizza joints. Come say hi!

Julia Palmer (she/her) is MA graduate student from the Department of English at Dalhousie. She received her BA in English from Mount Allison University in 2021 with a focus on Early Modern literature, literature by women, and comics studies. At Mount Allison, Julia had the pleasure of working with the student-run Atlantic Journal of International Studies (ATLIS) and the creative student journal, 7 Mondays. Originally from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Julia loves movies, cartooning, and her two dogs, Poppy and Daisy.

Morgan Kittson is a MA graduate student with Dalhousie’s Department of English. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Honours English and Creative Writing from Concordia University. At Concordia, Morgan developed a keen interest in editing and served as editor-in-chief of creative and academic journals alike. Morgan holds a Dr. Malcolm Ross Graduate Scholarship. Having developed a fascination for literary moments in which bodies come into contact with culture, Morgan will pursue this interest in her thesis. She intends to examine how gender and subjecthood is formed and performed in twenty-first century coming-of-age novels. More broadly, her research interests include postcolonial literature, body-culture studies, and food studies.

Serafina Piasentin (she/her) is an MA graduate student from the Department of English at Dalhousie. Her research interests include the pursuit of Paradise in literature, particularly in medieval texts, as well as the vertex of philosophy, history, and art that reveals larger truths about the metaphysics of life. She is prone to writing historical fiction and travel poetry. Before Dalhousie, Serafina graduated at the top of her class in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor with study abroad credits from Keele University and the University of Edinburgh in the UK. While in Scotland, she co-founded a literary journal called The Gently Mad Magazine which publishes art, poetry, and short stories for sanity’s sake. She has also been published in the poetry collection, Where The Map Begins, as well as in other anthologies throughout Canada and the UK. She has experience as a publisher, poetry editor, teacher, and currently works as a freelance journalist for Windsor Life. Serafina is passionate about traveling, having visited over 50 countries.