Nikki Luscombe is a Toronto-based freelance writer and accredited communications professional who loves to read her kid’s books. She has promoted literacy, worked in science communications for the Ontario Science Centre, and has written for Owl. Nikki is a fan of STEM content for kids and young adults, and awaits the day she can go on assignment to write about otters. She reviews two new educational books for children on page 44.
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is an Anishinaabe writer, poet, and editor, and the founder and managing editor of Kegedonce Press, an Indigenous publisher based in the territory of her people, the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Her recent collection of short stories, The Stone Collection, was a finalist for a Sarton Literary Award. She looks back on the year in Indigenous literature on page 12.
Piali Roy is a Toronto-based freelance writer and book reviewer. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Star, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, and the anthology City of Words: Toronto Through Her Writers’ Eyes, and on theAgenda.ca. She also has made several radio documentaries for CBC Radio One’s Ideas program. She reviews Rachel Manley’s novel The Black Peacock on page 37.