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Kornelia Drianovski
MA CRW Candidate
Email: kornelia.drianovski@mail.utoronto.ca Area of Specialization/Research Interest(s): Fiction, autofiction My creative work is an attempt to meditate on childhood, family life, women’s experiences, immigration, indeterminacy, trauma, addiction, and the erosion of intimate relationships. List of Publications:
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Sabryna R. Ekstein Sabryna R. Ekstein (she/her) is currently working on her MA in Creative Writing, holding a graduate degree in Museum Studies. Her characters are witty, impulsive and sometimes unreliable. She has a strong interest in Food Studies, specifically in relation to the craft beer and hospitality industries. List of Publications: Sabryna's work has been published online and in print, in places such as The Growler, Goose Fiction, Greenwood Gallery, ladySTUDIOS, Feels Zine, and Sophomore Mag. |
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Juliann Garisto MA CRW Candidate Email: juliann.garisto@mail.utoronto.ca Area of Specialization/Research Interest(s): Literary Fiction, Memoir, Psychological Realism
Juliann Garisto is a writer and editor based in Toronto. Her interests include literary fiction, multivocality, pseudonymity, and body horror. Her writing may serve as an act of resurrection. It is funded by SSHRC CGS-M.
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Area of Specialization/Research Interest(s): Literary fiction
Mina Ivosev is a second-year student in the Master’s of Creative Writing program specializing in literary fiction. Under the guidance and support of her mentor, Rebecca Rosenblum, she is currently writing a novel focusing on female identity and gender relations. Mina’s work has previously been published and awarded in various competitions, most recently winning first place in Hart House’s 2021 Literary Competition for her short story “Birth By Landscape,” a reflection on being a second-generation immigrant. She hopes to pursue a career in editing.
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Sarah MacKenzie
Sarah MacKenzie writes fiction, and her stories have appeared in places like Bad Nudes, The Puritan and Queen Mob’s Tea House. For her Master’s thesis/novel she is exploring how animal interiority allows her to think about narrative construction and form differently.
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Ali Pinkney
A structural experiment in poetic representation based on Heidegger's concept of Gestell (Enframing) inspired by a marine worm called "osedax muciflora."
Ali’s current research and writing at the University of Toronto is supported by a SSHRC CGS-M award and an Avie Bennett Emerging Writers Award. She holds her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and English Literature (2017) and a Master of Arts in English Literature (2021) from Concordia University in Montréal. At Concordia, Ali specialized in writing poetry, then in the study of the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was supported by her year's Steinberg Scholarship and David McKeen award for top creative writing.
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Finlay Pogue
MA CRW Candidate
Email: f.pogue@mail.utoronto.ca
Area of Specialization/Research Interest(s): Historical fiction, historiographic metafiction
Finlay Pogue is a fiction writer whose work explores the boundaries between fact and fiction in the context of historical narrative.
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Isabel Yang MA CRW Candidate Email: bel.yang@mail.utoronto.ca Area of Specialization/Research Interest(s): Poetry Isabel Yang/Z.Y. Yang/杨振宇 (they/her) is a poet and their work explores experimental lyric form, posthumanism, critical media studies, and race and queer theories. In a previous life they worked in marketing at an independent book publisher. List of Publications: Isabel's poems have been published in Room, Contemporary Verse 2, This Magazine, Poetry is Dead and other literary journals across Canada. |
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