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 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 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, and the 2018 Distinguished Faculty Award. She serves as Executive Acquisitions Editor for Poetry at Frontenac House since 2012, and has edited Griffin Award and Lammy award winners. Her work has been translated into Farsi, Chinese, and Italian.
Vincent Potter is a Calgarian writer, editor, and pansexual pancake flipper. A longtime part of the FreeFall community, he first appeared in the magazine as a poet, publishing four poems across three issues between 2015 and 2018, before joining the masthead as Poetry Editor. Since then, he has served as Prose Editor, Senior Prose Editor, Event Coordinator, and now Managing Editor. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Mount Royal University, has contributed book reviews to FreeFall in print and online, and remains deeply invested in supporting literary work in Calgary and beyond.
Crystal Mackenzie is a Calgary writer and longtime editor at FreeFall Magazine. She studied creative writing in fiction and poetry at Mount Royal University and has been part of FreeFall’s editorial team since 2013, including serving as Managing Editor from 2019 to 2025. Her prose poem “The Songwriter’s Club” was published in YYC POP: Poetic Portraits of People by Frontenac House in 2020. She is most inspired in her own writing when exploring the Rocky Mountains or the banks of the Bow River.
Michaela Ritchie is a writer, poet and recovering journalist from Calgary. She currently develops programs at Calgary Public Library, and sits on the board of the FreeFall Literary Society.
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 (2018), from Frontenac House.
Skylar Kay is an emerging writer from Calgary. Her debut collection of haiku and haibun, Transcribing Moonlight (2022), won the 2023 BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her cat, Soup, is also very cute.