Kelsey Wroten, who drew this issue’s cover, is a freelance illustrator and comics artist living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice. She currently is working on a graphic novel, to be published in 2018 by Uncivilized Books.
Naben ruthnum is the author of Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race, forthcoming from Coach House Books. Find You In the Dark, his debut thriller (under the pseudonym Nathan Ripley), is due in 2018 from Simon & Schuster Canada. He profiles Shari Lapena, author of A Stranger in the House, in this issue’s Frontmatter section (p. 6)
Ryan Porter has written for CBC, The Globe and Mail, and Maclean’s. He has worked as an entertainment reporter at the Toronto Star and as the entertainment editor for Flare. This issue, he contributes his first piece to Quill & Quire, about the rejuvenation of Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop, the oldest LGBTQ bookstore in the world (p. 10).