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LOGHAN PAYLOR (they/them) is a queer, trans author who lives in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Their short fiction and essays have previously appeared in Room and Prairie Fire, among others.

Paylor is a graduate of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University and has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, as well as a day job as a professional geek. Their debut novel, The Cure for Drowning, was the #3 best-selling queer novel in Canada in 2024, and is long-listed for the Giller Prize.

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways. Check out the Author on their Insta at @loghanish
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AMANDA MERPAW (she/her) is a writer, editor, and translator. She is the author of the poetry collection “Most of All the Wanting” which came out earlier this year and the chapbook “Put the Ghosts Down Between Us”, (2021). Her writing has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, carte blanche, CV2, Grain, Prairie Fire, Plenitude, and elsewhere. Amanda has been a finalist for the Poem of the Year Contest and the Montreal Fiction Prize.
She is a contributing editor at Arc Poetry Magazine and a member of the editorial board at Anstruther Press.

Exploring the landscape of grief in the wake of divorce, Most of All the Wanting is a treatise on intimacy in the face of change. Find the Author on Instagram at @amanda.merpaw or on her website at www.amandamerpaw.com