Poetry Roundtable re: 'Up:Rising: A Collection of Rebellious Imaginings from Authors with Lived Experience of Mental Health & Addictions'
KELLY PFLUG BACK (editor)
https://www.textandtextiles.ca/about
Kelly is a writer, textile artist, and educator/instructor. Their fiction, poetry, and journalism have appeared in places like the Toronto Star, Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, Briarpatch, Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, and many others. Her first full-length book of poems, The Hammer of Witches, was published with Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions in 2020.
NADJA LUBIW-HAZARD
https://www.nmlhazard.com/copy-of-tizzy-me
Nadja is the author of the adult novel The Nap-Away Motel, and the children's chapter book Tizzy and Me: Fifteen Ways to Love a Mink. Her short story collection The Life of a Creature, and her second children's chapter book, Tizzy and Me: The Incredible Adventure of Moondog's Eye will both be published in 2026.
Her work has been published in numerous Canadian literary magazines including Room, The Fiddlehead, Understorey, Event, Plenitude, Canthius, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Quarterly. Prior to turning to full-time writing, Nadja worked as a veterinarian, most recently at the Toronto Humane Society. She is currently working on several picture books about animals, and a second novel, Saving Seraphina.
Nadja is a trained creative writing workshop facilitator, and has worked with Firefly Creative Writing, The Writers Collective of Canada, Workman Arts, and CAMH Collaborative Learning College (CLC). She is passionate about the role narrative medicine and storytelling have in healing, especially as it relates to grief. Her CLC workshops focus on pet-loss grief, eco-grief, and the grief of mental illness. Find out more and sign up here.
A life-long animal-lover and long-time vegan, her writing often explores themes related to the more-than-human world. She lives with her wife, their two daughters, and a feisty, fluffy cat in Toronto.
ALTHEA KNIGHT
https://altheaknight.com/index.php/about-althea/
Born in London, England, to Jamaican and West African lineages, Althea Knight is a Canadian poet, artist, and educator living on unceded Algonquin territory in Ottawa. She has led workshops across cultures and communities, nurturing creative practice, self-discovery, and wellness. Her poems and visual art have been featured in galleries, museums, and community spaces, and published in Love Dimensions, Recipes for Sustainability, #WeBelieveSurvivors, and Up:Rising. She continues to create work that witnesses what was silenced, questions inherited narratives, and reclaims and tends what was disrupted across personal, ancestral, structural, and relational life.
ALEXANDRA C. YEBOAH
https://acyeboah.com/
Alexandra C. Yeboah is a Brampton-based writer, storyteller and creative facilitator whose work often drifts between the heartfelt and the hilariously human. A quiet observer with a mischievous curiosity, she writes stories exploring identity, discovery, belonging, and life’s awkward corners. Her nonfiction and poetry appear in Back Where I Came From, UpRising, and The Art of Solidarity anthologies. Alexandra is a second-generation Canadian with Jamaican and Ghanaian ancestry who is passionate about people, history, and culture. When not writing or facilitating, Alexandra can be found pretending her life is musical, daydreaming, or writing somewhere outdoorsy or by the light.
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