Hiromi Goto is an emigrant from Japan who gratefully resides in Lekwungen Territory. A queer writer, some of her books include Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child, and Half World. Her first graphic novel, Shadow Life, with artist Ann Xu, was published in 2021 with First Second Books.

Erica H Isomura is an essayist and poet. She is a recipient of ROOM Magazine’s Emerging Writer Award and was awarded first prize in Briarpatch’s Writing in the Margins Contest. Born and raised on the west coast, Isomura currently lives in Toronto on Dish with One Spoon/Treaty 13 territory.

Sarah Jim is an artist of mixed ancestry from the small village of Tseycum in W̱SÁNEĆ. She's received a BFA from UVIC and works in the field of environmental restoration. Her creations reflect and advocate for the beautiful land, sea, and skies that the W̱SÁNEĆ have stewarded since time immemorial.

Lucas Glenn is an emerging installation artist who lives, researches and works on the traditional territory of lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking nations. He is a current graduate student at University of Victoria in Visual Arts. Glenn's work proposes alternative models for human-nonhuman kinship, speculating in the context of climate collapse. Glenn works with materials like plant matter, snowmobile parts, found footage, reclaimed wood, hiking supplies, and electronics. His installations use play and world-building to explore material realities of climate crisis, colonization, and resource extraction. He draws subject matter from sci-fi genre films, literature, and popular video game titles.

Serena Lukas Bhandar is a writer, educator and witch of Punjabi Sikh and Welsh ancestry. Serena's first chapbook of poetry, this dying body, will be published in July 2022 with Rahila's Ghost Press, and her issue of Room magazine, on the theme of ancestors, is currently available.

Shane Book is a poet and filmmaker. His most recent poetry collection, Congotronic, was a finalist for the Griffin Prize. His award-winning short films have screened at festivals worldwide. An associate professor of Writing at the University of Victoria, his new volume of poetry, All Black Everything, drops next year.

Chantal Gibson is an award-winning artist-educator living on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her work confronts colonialism head on, imagining the BIPOC voices silenced in the spaces and omissions left by cultural and institutional erasure. Her debut poetry collection, How She Read explores representation of Black women in Canadian history, art and literature. Her follow-up collection, with/holding brings a critical lens to the representation and reproduction of Blackness across digital media.

Reid Urchison is a queer/trans artist living in Victoria on unceded Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. Their work focuses on language, literary theory, memoir and often takes the form of videos, zines or other multiples.