Contributors

Jessica Fortner (illustrations, beginning on p. 8) has done work for the New York Times , the Harvard Business Review , and The New Republic . Miranda Elliott (“Pro-life Island,” p. 15) is a quality-improvement specialist at Toronto Public Health.

Jonathan Kay (“My Generic Side,” p. 17) is the editor-in-chief of The Walrus .

Omar Mouallem (“How to Pitch a Tent,” p. 19) won a 2014 National Magazine Award for best profile.

Chelsea Murray (“The Shag Harbour Incident,” p. 20) has written for Reader’s Digest and This .

Kerry Gold (“The Highest Bidder,” p. 22) reports on real estate for the Globe and Mail .

Karin Bubaš ( photography, p. 22) has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.

K. D. Miller (“Witness,” p. 41) published her fourth collection of stories, All Saints , in 2014.

Teva Harrison (“Three Ways to Disappear,” p. 48) wrote and illustrated InBetween Days , a memoir about living with cancer. Larry Krotz (“Atheist at the Pulpit,” p. 54) contributed for many years to The United Church Observer .

Tim O’brien (illustrations, p. 54) teaches visual arts and is the president of the Society of Illustrators.

David Goldbloom (“Thinner,” p. 65) works as a psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.

Pier Bryden (“Thinner,” p. 65) specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children .

Jeannie Phan (illustration, p. 65) has drawn for Penguin Books and The New Yorker .

Naben Ruthnum (“Narrative Devices,” p. 69) is a Journey Prize–winning author and a former books columnist for the National Post .

Kyle Metcalf (illustration, p. 69) counts Cottage Life and Reader’s Digest among his clients.

Gregory Scofield ( poem, p. 71) teaches English literature at Laurentian University.

Sasha Chapin (“Pretty Boys,” p.72) has written for Vice , Hazlitt , and the National Post .

Linda Besner (poem, p. 73) will publish a new book, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds , in 2017.