Editor in Chief
Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emerita of Calgary (2016-18). Her most recent book, The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021), won the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award for best Canadian book of poetry and was short-listed for the Exile Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry. She was awarded the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award for literary contributions to Alberta (2022). She is a Walrus and TEDX talker, and she was the Calgary Public Library Author in Residence (2016). She won the Lois Hole Award for Editorial excellence for poetry in Alberta (2019). Micheline attained a Ph.D. at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in English Language and Literature with a specialization in Creative Writing and 20th Century Canadian Poetics. She is retired from teaching creative writing at Mount Royal University in Calgary where she won the 2015 Teaching Excellence Award, the 2018 Distinguished Faculty Award. She serves as Executive acquisitions editor for poetry at Frontenac House Press since 2012 and has edited Griffin Award and Lammy award winners. Her work has been translated into Farsi, Chinese, and Italian.
Managing Editor
Crystal Mackenzie is born and raised in Calgary and has been writing for over twenty years. She studied creative writing in both fiction and poetry at Mount Royal University. She has been an editor at FreeFall Magazine since 2013, taking over as Managing Editor in 2019. Her prose poem “The Songwriter’s Club” was published in YYC POP: Poetic Portraits of People (Frontenac House) in 2020. She writes out of her childhood home where a postcard view of downtown and the Rocky Mountains often distracts her. Other welcomed distractions in her life are her daughter’s ever evolving views on humanity and listening to her talented partner Ryan read drafts of his own work. Crystal is most inspired in her own writing when exploring the Rocky Mountains or the banks of the Bow River.
Adam Gerber is an emerging writer from Calgary, Alberta. His first short story, “Roadrunner” was published by FreeFall Magazine. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a double minor in English and Creative Writing from Mount Royal University. He is the creator and owner of Throwin’ Bones MMA, a website dedicated to covering the beauty and absurdity of Mixed Martial Arts through self-produced articles, podcasts, and interviews.
Skylar Kay is an emerging writer from Calgary. She mainly writes in Japanese forms, and has been published in a variety of journals that focus on haiku. Her cat is also very cute.
Sarah Howden is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto where she studies climate change denial and American literature. She writes both poetry and fiction.
Shelley McAneeley M.A. Arch, undergrad Philosophy ponders art in its many forms. You can enjoy some of her poems in Drifting like a metaphor, edited by Micheline Maylor and available through Frontenac House.
Vincent Potter is a Calgarian writer and editor. Since graduating from Mount Royal University’s English program, he fills his time with freelance editing and writing poetry next to his guinea pigs.
Michaela Ritchie is an author, poet and recovering journalist from Calgary, Alberta. Currently working at the Calgary Public Library, Ritchie is a prose editor for FreeFall Magazine and sits on the board of the FreeFall Literary Society. Her words can be found in past issues of Where Magazine, Essential Magazine, Tourism Calgary, and many decrepit notebooks. Say hello to her online at @wordsbyritchie.