Contest Readers for Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms 2023
Izzy Astuto (they/he) is a writer currently majoring in Creative Writing at Emerson College. His work has previously been published by Hearth and Coffin and Renesme Literary, amongst others. Their Instagram is izzyastuto2.0 and Twitter is adivine_tragedy. Keila Gallardo Cubas (she/he/they) is a student from UNB doing an English and Communication Studies double major. She hopes to become an editor after graduation. They enjoy writing and have published a few short stories in Vox (UNB’s arts journal) and edited the 2023 edition. He is a queer Peruvian based in the unceded lands of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkatiyik nations (New Brunswick)”. Maria Ford (she/her) is a poet whose work has been honoured in contests and published in Off Topic Publishing, ROOM Magazine, Pangyrus, Pulp Literature, and others. She has self-published chapbooks and holds two degrees in English literature. She lives, writes, edits, and consults from Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory.Luke Worthy is a queer poet and story writer from Sheffield based in Amsterdam. He was shortlisted in the 2021 New Poets Prize and his work has been published in Poetry Wales, fourteen poems, and Dear Life (Hive 2022). He is a member of Hive Poetry Collective and clays slugs.Shranup Tandukar (he/him) is a poet/writer from Nepal. His work is forthcoming in Salamander Magazine. When not writing or reading, he can be found meandering through alleyways in Patan.
