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Charles Simard
Charles Simard is a Québécois editor and translator from Montréal, also known as Tiohtià:ke and Mooniyaang. He works as poetry, fiction, and non-fiction editor for Talonbooks in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory. His published work includes the essay Littérature, analyse et forme: Herbert, Tolkien, Borges, Eco (EUE, 2010) and a number of translations for Orca Book Publishers, including Elise Gravel’s The Wrench and Myriam Daguzan Bernier’s dictionary of sexuality, Naked. As a lexicographer, he has collaborated on the making of the popular linguistic suite Antidote in its bilingual editions. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in comparative literature from Université de Montréal and was a postdoctoral fellow at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. His doctoral and postdoctoral publications focused on the poetics of avant-garde composer and writer John Cage. He lives in Montréal, Québec.
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Audra Simpson
Audra Simpson is a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014), winner of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, the Laura Romero Prize from the American Studies Association, the Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society (2015) and CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2014. She has published articles and book chapters spanning various fields. She is a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk.
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Raven Sinclair
Raven Sinclair is Nehiyaw (Cree) and Associate Professor of Social Work, at the University of Regina, Saskatoon Campus. Her passions include wellness training and facilitation, Indigenous research, and Indigenous child welfare.
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Tom Slee
Tom Slee writes about technology, politics, and economics and in the last two years has become a leading critic of the sharing economy. He has a PhD in theoretical chemistry, a long career in the software industry, and his book No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart is a game-theoretical investigation of individual choice that has been used in university economics, philosophy and sociology courses. He lives in Waterloo, Canada and blogs at www.tomslee.net.
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Julia Smith
Julia Smith joined the Graphic History Collective in 2012. She is currently completing a PhD in Canadian Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Her research interests include labour and working-class history, gender and women’s studies, and political economy. She has written about women, work, and union organizing, particularly in the service, office, and retail sectors, and she enjoys studying and sharing the history of working peoples.
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Malinda Smith
Malinda Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta.
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Nigel Spencer
Nigel Spencer is a writer, translator, and professor of English living in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He has won the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for translation on three occasions, in 2002, 2007, and 2012 and was awarded a Proclamation of Recognition by the Republic of Guinea.