The Panic Room by Rebecca Pāpucaru won The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards 2018.
Montreal writer Gillian Sze is the author of nine poetry collections.
Karasick is a NY-based Canadian performer of "œproto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion" (George Quasha).
Billeh Nickerson is the author of five books and a silver medalist at the Canadian Gay Curling Championships.