RECEIPTS: An Evening of Queer Nonfiction

Adèle Barclay’s writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Heavy Feather Review, The Pinch, glitterMOB, The Puritan, PRISM international and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and the 2016 Walrus Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You (Nightwood, 2016), was nominated for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She is Arc Magazine’s Poet in Residence and an editor at Rahila’s Ghost Press. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territory/Vancouver.

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD, an award for one book of any genre in the world. They earned their BA at Columbia University, their JD at Harvard Law School, and their MFA at Emerson College. They are now the Rogers Communications Chair and an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Devon Murphy is a writer, editor, and producer based in Mohkínstsis / Calgary, Alberta. She has received awards from the Canada Council to attend the Tin House Summer Workshop and from Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity to attend their Winter Writers Residency. She has studied with authors Casey Plett, Waubgeshig Rice, Isle McElroy and Rachel Khong, and holds an MA in Journalism from Western University. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have been published in New York Magazine, SAD Mag, Chatelaine, and New Forum, among other journals. She is currently completing her debut novel, a literary horror about a synchronized swimming team.

Rose Zinnia is a writer, editor, and designer. Born in Akron, Ohio, she is the author of Togethering (2024), a collection of poetry & lyric essay. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Zinnia’s honors also include fellowships from Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Kinsey Institute. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, and Poem-a-Day, among others. She works in production at the LGBTQ+ journal and press Foglifter and is an editorial assistant for The Cincinnati Review. A doctoral student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati, Zinnia lives in Ohio and is currently at work on her debut novel and a book-length essay.