Trees are blooming, birds are singing and the new editorial team for PRISM international has arrived! We will miss our departing editors and would like to thank Kyla, Selina and Shazia for doing such an amazing job! Jessica has stayed on with us for another year and will be moving roles. Find all the details below:
Executive Editors:
Circulation
Molly Cross-Blanchard is a Métis writer from the prairies living and working as a guest on unceded Musqueam territory. Her work has appeared in various journals, and her debut poetry chapbook, “I Don’t Want to Tell You,” will be released this Spring with Rahila’s Ghost Press. She enjoys walking aimlessly around IKEA, and making magazine cut-out collages.
Promotions
Olga Holin is a polyglot, a mix of mostly European ancestry, a writer and poet. She is currently working on a series of Andy Warhol influenced poems called “These Polaroids are Voice-Enabled” and on her first novel. She has recently developed an obsession for blackbirds so she is probably outside now, talking to them, trying to feed them.
Content Editors:
Poetry
Jessica Johns is a writer of Cree ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. She is currently living and working on the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in SAD Mag, Saltern, Glass Buffalo, Bad Nudes, CV2, The Rusty Toque, and Cosmonauts Avenue. She is the co-founder of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series and enjoys eating tacos and checking her shark tracker app. You can find her tweeting at @stellaabrenda
Prose
Jasmine Sealy is a Barbadian-Canadian writer. She can usually be found in the back of the room, complaining about the temperature. If she hears you speaking with a Caribbean accent she will force her friendship upon you.