WINTER 2015

Poster by April Alayon.

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LADAN SAHRAEI

Ladan Sahraei is deaf, Short, and has played roles in films as an assistant costume manager, and has worked on and directed six short films in Iran. She is now a student at VCC.

JEN SUNGSHINE

Jen Sungshine speaks for a living but lives for breathing life into unspoken situations in unusual places. As a queer artist-activist she facilitates with creativity and social justice media to evolutionize and revolutionize youth education in the classrooms and beyond through Out in Schools. Her artistic practice involves unlearning while learning and learning while unlearning; and instead of calling you out, she wants to call you in - to make artful social change with her through the language of love and nerdy codes. She is very wordy.

PRAGYA SHARMA

pragya sharma has been writing since she was a wee babe, constructing stories and worlds and characters to keep her company.  Her work is grounded in her experiences as a fat, South Asian, queer, cis, femme settler on Turtle Island. She’s never published anything other than a few zines in her 20s and she rarely performs, so she is very excited to be a part of REVERB.

AlEX LESLIE

Alex Leslie has published a collection of short stories, People Who Disappear, which was shortlisted for a 2013 Lambda Award, a chapbook of microfictions 20 Objects for the New World, and a collection of prose poems The things I heard about you, published this fall by Nomados. Alex’s poetry is included in Best Canadian Poetry In English 2014 published by Tightrope Books. Alex edited the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead magazine and is currently working on a collection of stories entitled We All Need To Eat. Alex was born and has lived their life on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh peoples.

KARA SIEVEWRIGHT

Kara Sievewright is a writer, artist and designer who creates comics, websites, prints, and posters. She has published comics and illustrations in many magazines and anthologies including Plenitude, Descant, filling Station, carte blanche, Briarpatch, and Certain Days: Political Prisoners Calendar. She lives on Haida Gwaii and is working on a graphic novel. You can see more of her work on www.makerofnets.ca

ZAIN MEGHJI

Zain Meghji is a tender hearted femme spoken word artist residing on Unceded Coast Salish Territories. He has been writing since he could hold a pen and has been performing for six years and finds himself exploring different mediums of art like music and dance as he grows with other artists around him. His work is inspired by his ancestors as he moves through the world with them in his heart and body always.