Nicole Haldoupis is a queer writer, editor, and visual artist from Tkaronto/Toronto. She currently works as a managing editor at Paragon Press, and she’s a former managing editor of Breakwater Books, a former editor of Grain, and a co-creator of untethered and Applebeard Editions. Her work can be found in Riddle Fence, BAD DOG Mag, The Feathertale Review, Bad Nudes, antilang, and others. She completed an MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in English at Memorial University, and she is currently working towards a PhD in English at Memorial University. She teaches creative writing at the College of the North Atlantic. Her first book, Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press, 2020), was shortlisted for four 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards and the 2022 Association of Italian-Canadian Writers (AICW) Bressani Literary Prize. She won the 2023 Gregory J. Power Poetry Award and received an honourable mention in the 2024 award. She plays guitar in a girl band called HAGS and plays bass in a band called True Trash. Nicole lives in St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland.
Photo by Geoff Pevlin.