Qurat Dar is the author of Non-Prophet (icehouse poetry 2025), winner of the inaugural Claire Harris Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She was the City of Mississauga’s Youth Poet Laureate from 2021-2023 and the 2020 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam National Champion.

Clara Lacasse is interested in the construction of history, nature, science, and the collective imaginary. Through photography, she critically examines visual culture and the image as a tool of knowledge and power, often collaborating with scientific, medical, legal, or cultural institutions to question their inherent truths.