Our Authors

Alex Boyd
Alex Boyd is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Brick and Bone (Believe Your Own Press) and Urgent Baby (Little Fish Cart Press) He also writes fiction, reviews and essays. His work had been published in magazines and newspapers such as Taddle Creek, Books in Canada, The Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire and The Danforth Review. Boyd studied at Brock University and graduated with a BA in English. He is a founder editor of Northern Poetry Review (.com). He has been the curator of the IV Lounge Reading Series since 2003. Boyd is a member of Greenpeace and PEN Canada.

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Colin Carberry
Colin Carberry is a poet and literary translator, who was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Longford, Ireland. He has published two collections of poetry, including Ceasefire in Purgatory; a chapbook, The Crossing, (Bearing Press); and he has translated two volumes of poetry, Weekly Diary and Poems in Prose & Adam and Eve (Exile Editions), from the Spanish of Mexico’s finest poet, Jaime Sabines. Colin has read from his work at literary festivals, libraries, bars and universities in Canada, Ireland, and the United States. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry Ireland Review, Line by Line: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry, Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets, and is being translated into Serbo-Croatian and Spanish.

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Mariela Griffor
Mariela Griffor was born in the city of Concepción in southern Chile. She attended the University of Santiago and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden in 1985. She and her American husband returned to the United States in 1998 with their two daughters. They live in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. She is co-founder of The Institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University and Publisher of Marick Press. Her work has appeared in periodicals across Latin America and the United States. Mariela Holds a B.A in Journalism and a M.A. in Communications from Wayne State University. Exiliana is her first book. She was recently named Honorary Consul of Chile in Michigan.

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Nenad Jovanovic
Nenad Jovanovic was born in Belgrade in 1973. He has published seven volumes of poetry, a play, a novel, and a collection of short stories (all in Serbo-Croat). For his work as a poet, novelist, and film director, Nenad has received several prestigious awards in his homeland. Since 2000, he has lived in Toronto with his wife. Jovanovic is currently enrolled in University of Toronto's PhD Drama program.

Fereshteh Molavi
Fereshteh Molavi was born in Tehran and worked there as a freelance editor and translator, as well as a librarian and scholar. She has published a novel The House of Cloud and the Wind, a collection of short stories The Sunny Fairy, and two prose works The Orange and the Lime and The Iranian Garden. She has also compiled and published a comprehensive bibliography of short stories in Persian. In 1998 she came to Toronto and since then has published some stories and articles in Toronto Iranian magazines Shahrvand and Sepidar, and a literary online site named Sokhan. She has also published a collaborative chapbook, with Canadian writer Karen Connelly, under the auspices of PEN Canada. She is currently living in New Haven, and working with Yale University to develop a Persian collection for the Sterling Memorial Library.