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Kate Geis is a writer and educator living in Toronto, where she teaches creative nonfiction, expressive arts, and other trauma-informed courses at George Brown Polytechnic. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, The Malahat Review, The Humber Literary Review, Hobart, and the Best Canadian Essays 2026 Anthology. In 2025, she was named a CBC Writer to Watch. Her memoir, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, about her childhood medical experiences related to a missing ear, was listed as a best book of 2025 by CBC Books and the Winnipeg Free Press, and is nominated for the 2026 OLA Evergreen Award.

Nicholas Herring's head-spinning debut novel, Some Hellish, won the prestigious Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Critics described it as "heart-wrenchingly beautiful," "irreverent, screwball, and inspired," and "a winding, raucous ride." His writing has also appeared in The Puritan, and The Fiddlehead.

Herring graduated from St. Jerome's University with an honours degree in English Literature and attended the University of Toronto, where he completed an MA in Creative Writing. He lives in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, where he works as a fisherman and a carpenter. Herring's second novel Your Breath in Charcoal has recently been shortlisted for the Giller Prize.