KJ Aiello: A smiling person with glasses and shoulder-length hair, wearing a mustard-yellow top. Text introduces them as an award-winning writer whose debut book The Monster and the Mirror is shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prize (2025) and a CBC Best Nonfiction pick (2024). Their essay Who Gets to Be Mentally Ill? won Gold in the 2023 Digital Publishing Awards.
Tessa Fleming: A smiling person with brown hair wearing a dark button-up shirt. Text describes her as a writer, workshop facilitator, teacher, and filmmaker whose thesis is a hybrid project of essays, poetry, and prose. She collaborates with her partner, cinematographer Daniel Grant, to bring creative work to the screen.
torri blue: A person with short hair and round glasses, smiling while wearing a teal T-shirt. Text introduces them as an autistic writer and lyricist focused on autistic and poetic embodiment. Their work has been published in The Journal of Autistic Culture, and their poems have been set to music and used in short films.
Lawson Hannaford: A smiling person wearing a bucket hat and sleeveless top, outdoors with trees and buildings in the background. Text describes them as a multidisciplinary creator whose work explores queerness, transness, mental illness, and queer history. They are also an award-winning playwright.
Meet some of the talented writers in our Creative Writing MFA program (part one)! β¨πβ¨
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