Editorial Staff

Mary Chapman

Mary Chapman is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her current research involves writing a microhistory of the family of Asian American authors Edith and Winnifred Eaton. Her award-winning collection Becoming “Sui Sin Far”: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016), assembles 70 uncollected texts written during Eaton’s writerly apprenticeship in Montreal and Jamaica, before she had taken up the pseudonym “Sui Sin Far” and moved to the US. Chapman specializes in modernist and twentieth-century literatures, transnational American studies and American literature, suffrage literature and activism, women’s poetry, periodicals, digital humanities, and public humanities.

Laura K. Davis

Laura K. Davis has been teaching at Red Deer Polytechnic since 2008 in the areas of Canadian literature and writing studies. Her published books include Alice Munro and the Art of Time (U of Alberta P, 2025), This is Us: The Story of Jack and Joan Donald (co-written with Michael Dawe and published by Joan Donald, 2024), Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters (edited with Linda M. Morra, U of Alberta P, 2018), and Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2017). Her academic work resides at the intersections of history, culture, and literature, and her approach to the study of literature emphasizes the material and intellectual contexts in which texts are produced.

Phinder Dulai is the author of three poetry collections: dream / arteries (Talonbooks, 2014), Basmati Brown (Nightwood Editions, 2000), and Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995). His work has also been published in Canadian Literature, Offerings, Cue Books Anthology, Ankur, Matrix, Memewar Magazine, Rungh, The Capilano Review, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Toronto South Asian Review, subTerrain and West Coast LINE.

A consulting editor and member of the Talonbooks’ Poetry Board, Phinder Dulai is also a co-founder of the interdisciplinary contemporary arts group South of Fraser Inter-Arts Collective (SOFIA/c), and a past adjudicator for the Canada Council for the Arts.

Recently, Phinder Dulai led the design and served as faculty lead for Centering Ourselves: Writing in a Racialized Canada. This residency was hosted at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada’s first dedicated literary incubator for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour authors.

Sophie McCall

Sophie McCall is a settler scholar in the English department at Simon Fraser University. Her main areas of research and teaching are Indigenous literatures in Canada from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is the author of First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship (UBC P 2011). She has published widely on a range of topics and she has edited or co-edited several collections of essays, stories, and visual arts. She is currently co-authoring a book on Indigenous-led collaboration with NunatuKavut scholar Kristina Bidwell.

Glenn Deer

Glenn Deer teaches Asian Canadian and Asian American Writing, Canadian Literature, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism in the English Department at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority (1994). Before becoming Associate Editor, he guest-edited Canadian Literature #163 : Asian Canadian Writing.

Dallas Hunt

Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada. He has had critical work published in Settler Colonial Studies, Theory & Event, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. His debut book, CREELAND, was released by Nightwood editions in 2021. His most recent book, Teeth, was published in 2024. Dallas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.