Shannon Maguire Editor

Shannon Maguire's first collection, fur(l) parachute, was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Also the finalist of the bpNichol Chapbook Award for Fruit Machine, and the Manitoba Magazine Award for Best Suite of Poems for "The Fur Parachute Suite" in CV2, her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including the Best American Experimental Writing of 2014, Jacket2, Event, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, an MA in English from Brock University, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she studies noise and queer and M�tis poetics. Born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie of predominantly Irish and M�tis heritage, Shannon now divides her time between Waterloo, Toronto, and the Soo. Wherever she finds herself, she reads and writes incessantly.