About The Bloggers
NEW BLOGGERS (2009)
Devon Code is from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He recently completed a graduate degree in creative writing at Concordia University. In a Mist, his debut collection of short fiction, was published by Invisible Publishing in 2007. His work has appeared in anthologies, literary journals and magazines in Canada and the UK. Code lives in Toronto, and is currently a 2009 Writer-in-Residence with the Now Hear This! S.W.A.T. Program.
Katia Grubisic’s collection of poetry What if red ran out came out last year, and her work has also appeared in various Canadian and international publications. Originally from several places, she now lives in Montréal, where she writes, edits, reviews and translates, and tends to her three goldfish.
Pradeep Solanki is the winner of the 2007 Wayson Choy Scholarship at Humber School for Writers. He has had short fiction published in Toward the Light, Descant and been accepted by periodicals. He is working on short fiction collection.
PHASE TWO (2008)
Michelle Alfano is a Toronto writer and a Co-Editor with Descant. Her short story “Opera”, on which her new novella Made Up Of Arias (Blaurock Press, 2008) is based, was a finalist for a Journey Prize anthology. Her fiction and non-fiction work has been widely published in Canada in major literary publications, and has also appeared in the U.S. She will be featured in a forthcoming documentary on the passengers, and the children of the passengers, of the Saturnia, an immigrant ship which transported thousands of Italian-born immigrants to Canada in the 1950s and 60s and which will be featured on OMNI-TV.
Kerry Clare is a Toronto writer. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Quarterly, Hart House Review, The Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail. She is also Fiction Editor of echolocation. In May 2007 Kerry completed the Creative Writing MA Program at the University of Toronto, and she is currently at work on her novel’s final revisions. She writes about books at her blog Pickle Me This.
Michael Mirolla is a Toronto novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright. His publications include two novels — Berlin and The Boarder — and two short story collections — The Formal Logic of Emotion and Hothouse Loves & Other Tales. Mirolla has also had several plays produced as well as a poetry chapbook and poetry in various journals in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain. He is a book reviewer for markets such as The Toronto Star, Halifax Daily News, Montreal Gazette, Montreal Star, Calgary Herald, Quarry Magazine and Event.
Andrew Tibbetts has published stories in The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly and This Magazine. He lives in Toronto and works as a psychotherapist, advocate and educator. At some point in the eighties he had a giant blond mohawk, which was unfortunately never documented on film. Tibbetts will appear in Descant 138: Fashion.
PHASE ONE (2007)
Stacey May Fowles is Descant’s previous Circulation Manager. She’s also a writer who has appeared in Fireweed, subTERRAIN, Kiss Machine and Hive. Her first novel is forthcoming with Tightrope Books in fall 2007, and she is currently working on her second novel and a collection of short stories.
Leah Sandals is a writer, editor and artist who’s lived across Canada and is now based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Flash Art, Canadian Art, Quill and Quire, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Border Crossings, Fuse Magazine, C Magazine, and other publications. She is also public art editor and reviews editor of Spacing Magazine, and you can find out more about her hijinks here.
Zoe Whittall is the author of Bottle Rocket Hearts (a novel forthcoming from Cormorant Books) and two books of poetry, The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life and The Emily Valentine Poems. She is a book reviewer for Now Magazine and her writing has appeared in the Globe & Mail, the National Post, THIS magazine, FFWD, Herizons, Broken Pencil, Kiss Machine, Geist, Matrix and more. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets and is forthcoming in Baby Remember My Name: Queer Girls Writing in their 20s. Originally from South Durham, Quebec she has lived in Toronto for the last ten years.