Summer Writers Residency 2023

Stuart Ross is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and small press activist living in Cobourg, Ontario. The recipient of the 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize, the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry, and the 2010 Relit Prize for Short Fiction, among others, Stuart is the author of over twenty books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and essays, most recently The Book of Grief and Hamburgers (ECW Press, 2022), I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub (Anvil Press, 2022), and 70 Kippers: The Dagmar Poems (with Michael Dennis; Proper Tales Press, 2020). Stuart has taught workshops in schools across the country and has been Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University and the University of Ottawa. He has given hundreds of readings of his fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and sound poetry in Canada, the US, the UK, Slovenia, Nicaragua, and Chile. Stuart has worked with scores of emerging, mid-career, and senior writers, both through his imprints at Mansfield Press and Anvil Press, and as a freelance editor. His work has been translated into French, Norwegian, Slovene, Russian, Spanish, and Estonian. Stuart occasionally blogs at bloggamooga.blogspot.ca.

Canisia Lubrin is a writer, editor and teacher. Her books include the acclaimed and awards-nominated Voodo Hypothesis (W&W '17) and The Dysgraphxst (M&S, 20), winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Derek Walcott Prize, and finalist for the Trillium and Governor General's awards for English poetry. Lubrin was also awarded the 2021 Joseph Stauffer literature prize by the Canada Council for the Arts. Poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart, she completed her MFA at University of Guelph, where she is alno MFA in Creative Writing Coordinator in the School of English & Theatre Studies. Lubrin's forthcoming work of fiction is Code Noir: Metamorphoses (Knopf, 2023). In 2021, she was awarded the Windham Campbell prize for poetry.

Leigh Nash is the publisher of Assembly Press, a brand-new boutique publishing house that's designed to be independent, inclusive, and incisive. Previously, she was the publisher at House of Anansi Press, taught book publishing at York University, ran Invisible Publishing, worked at Coach House Books, was a founding partner of editorial firm Re:word Communications, and was co-founder of chapbook press The Emergency Response Unit. Leigh also sits on the board of directors for the Association of Canadian Publishers and has previously sat on the boards of eBOUND Canada and Canadian Women in the Literary Arts. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph and has published one poetry collection, Goodbye, Ukulele.