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By Shayla Elizabeth Chris Macalino is a Filipino-Canadian poet/writer, and visual artist, born in Mexico, Pampanya. With his parents, through the Canadian WE program, at age eight, he immigrated. “The first time I saw a library—in school.” At St. John’s high school, he met “really cool” adults—Art, English–leading to submitting an art portfolio to the University of Manitoba’s School of Fine Art. Again, he had great professors, like author Dennis Cooley, where a creative writing …
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Fisher Lavell
Fisher Lavell is a working-class writer from Swan River, Manitoba. She has professional publications in her field, counselling and psychology, but her true loves are fiction and memoir. Her first novel, A Seven Year Ache, was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and her second novel, Three Days Till Rapture, won the American Working Class Studies Association’s Tillie Olsen Award. She has always had dogs, big dogs, and swears that her boxer, Edgrrr,…