STEVIE HOWELL is an Irish-Canadian writer & worker. A first collection of poetry, Sharps, was released fall 2014, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. A second collection of poetry is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Canada. Stevie's poetry has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry (2014 and 2015 anthologies), Hazlitt, The Walrus, Prelude, and on the Best American Poetry blog. Critical writing has appeared in The National Post, The Globe and Mail, Pl

Desert Pets celebrated our second season with the launch of Brooke Lockyer's Moon Bones/Silver Tooth and Michelle Brown's Foreign Experts Building. The night was a tremendous success! Thank you to The Emergency Response Unit and Phoebe Wang for sharing the evening with us, Reunion Island Coffee Bar for hosting us, and everyone for coming out! #Launch #SmallPress #Publishing #Poets #Spring2016 #MichelleBrown #TheEmergencyResponseUnit #Reading #Toronto #Chapbooks #BrookeLockyer

MICHELLE BROWN is a writer from Vancouver Island, currently living in Toronto and working as a copywriter. She's had work published in The Puritan, Prism, CV2, Arc, and The Malahat Review, amongst others. Recently shortlisted for CV2's Young Buck poetry prize and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, she's excitedly awaiting her first chapbook (with Desert Pets Press) in May, and her first full-length collection (with Palimpsest Press) in 2018. BROOKE LOCKYER's short stories,