Erica is a freelance writer, editor, illustrator and content strategist with a focus on luxury, travel, wellness and sustainability. When she's not globetrotting the world, you can find her sipping a hot cuppa milk tea in Hong Kong, nibbling on giant cookies and cinnamon buns in Vancouver, or scarfing down slices of appeltaart in Amsterdam.

Xiao Yue Shan is a poet, writer, editor, and translator. The collection, then telling be the antidote, won the Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in 2023. The chapbook, How Often I Have Chosen Love, won the Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published in 2019. She has received the New Millennium Award for Poetry and the Juxtaprose Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award, and the Ambit Poetry Competition. Poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Magazine, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Poetry Northwest, and more. Prose works have appeared in Granta, 3:AM Magazine, Electric Literature, Cleveland Review of Books, The Shanghai Literary Review, and more. Poem-films have shown in festivals in London, Vienna, New York City, and Athens. Her work has been supported by the Canadian Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and Arts Council Tokyo. She runs the Beijing-based, bilingual literary journal Spittoon Literary Magazine, and edits Tokyo Poetry Journal and the Asymptote Journal blog. Her website is shellyshan.com

Alexia (b.1993) is an Argentinean-Canadian cultural practitioner dedicated to creating, facilitating & holding space for emerging artists. She follows the tides of the moon and her personal projects explore how we are shaped in and by collectivities. She is the current Director at Xpace Cultural Centre.

Trying some things out

Here to fulfil your text-based needs: I'm a New Zealand-German writer, editor and translator specialised in the travel, design and lifestyle sectors. Fluent in English, German and French, I graduated in Law and Politics before pursuing my interest in aesthetics into cultural journalism, via a two-year stint in advertising in London.