LBRNTH MASTHEAD

  • Gage Michael Wheatley

    Editor-In-Chief

    Gage Michael Wheatley (he/him) is a queer multidisciplinary poet and artist based in based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Drawing on the power of nature and queerness, Gage lets his unconscious mind take over in his exploration of himself, his body and the environment. He was recently featured in CV2, Yolk Literary Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review (among others) and on Vallum's 2022 Poetry Award shortlist.

  • Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez

    Editor-In-Chief

    Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez is all about being gay and being a gay Canadian-born Chilean. If he's not writing, performing or delivering a book for Mes Pants de Queer, you might see him at the gym sauna or any public urinals. He studied Creative Writing at Concordia, but he’s currently on hiatus. His poetry debut can be read in Soliloquies Anthology, Frog Pond Review and LBRNTH magazine.

  • Meryem Yildiz

    Poetry Editor

    Meryem Yildiz is a poet born and based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Acta Victoriana, carte blanche, yolk, and elsewhere. In 2022, she won The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry as well as the QWF’s carte blanche Prize. Her debut collection is set to be published by Guernica Editions in 2025.

  • Misha Solomon

    Poetry Editor

    Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020) and Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022), and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, & Change, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, and PRISM. He is currently pursuing his MA at Concordia University, where he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Headlight Anthology.

  • Binh An Nguyen Cuu

    Ficton/Nonfiction Editor

    Binh An Nguyen Cuu is a Vietnamese writer and poet living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). She holds a BA Hons. in English Literature with a Minor in Creative Writing from Concordia University. Her previous work can be found in Pixie Literary Magazine, The Encore Poetry Project, and Soliloquies Anthology, for which she worked as a prose editor for the 2022-2023 edition. Her stories are often pulled from silences at the kitchen table, threads of girlhood memories, and ever so haunting questions about ghosts (which she may or may not believe are real).

  • Santiago Eastman

    Fiction/Nonfiction Editor

    Santiago Eastman is a Colombian ex-DREAMer who is now (happily) working on his Canadian citizenship. He's currently finishing a double major in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia after his stint in Mechanical Engineering turned out sour. In terms of literature, he's most interested in what makes people tick: class and racial inequalities, different experiences in the LGBTQ+ community, and the crunchy bits that appear when they all mix.

  • Gazelle Bastan

    Visual Art Editor

    Gazelle Bastan, a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist learned calligraphy and miniature painting at an early age and soon after started seeking compositions and contribution of patterns to represent specific concepts. She received her master’s degree in Art Research from Tehran University in 2013. While earning her BFA at Concordia University she explored abstraction through painting, print, ceramics, and video art, focusing on the concepts of patterns and repetition. She has presented her work in many group exhibitions in Tehran, Damascus, and Montreal.