Please join us for an exciting panel discussion and Q & A featuring:

Jacqueline Dumas, author of The Heart Begins Here (Inanna)
Tara Ross-McGowan, author of Girth (Insomniac)
Clementine Morrigan, author of The Size of a Bird (Inanna)
Lise Weil, author of In Search of Pure Lust (inanna)

Jacqueline Dumas is a writer and educator who lives in Nova Scotia. She was a long-time resident of Edmonton, Alberta, where she ran Aspen Books (1977-1985) and latterly Orlando Books (1993-2002), a progressive, feminist bookstore that promoted countless writers from across the country. Her published works include: Madeleine & the Angel (1989), The Last Sigh (1993); and a children’s picture book, And I’m Never Coming Back (1986). The Heart Begins Here was published by Inanna Publications in 2018.

Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban aboriginal multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal. She is a collective member at Spectra Journal and the author of Girth (2016, Insomniac Press). She is mostly made of earth.

Clementine Morrigan is a writer, artist, educator, and working witch. Their first book, Rupture, was published in 2012. Her second collection of poetry, The Size of a Bird, was published by Inanna Publications in 2017. Their creative, artistic, and scholarly works consider trauma, madness, addiction, sobriety, gender, sexuality, desire, magic, re-enchantment, environment, and more-than-human worlds.

Lise Weil is an award-winning editor and translator. She is founding editor of Dark Matter: Women Witnessing and teaches in the Goddard Graduate Institute. Her collection of Mary Meigs’ writings on aging, Beyond Recall (2005), was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in biography in 2006. Born in Chicago, she moved to Montreal in 1990. Lise’s memoir, In Search of Pure Lust, was published by Inanna Publications in 2018.