Camryn Munday is a fourth-year student in Trinity Western University’s English Program. She takes great joy in fostering the written arts on TWU’s campus; she is chief copy editor for Mars’ Hill newspaper, works as a writing tutor, and has spent two years on the [spaces] team, first as an associate editor and now as editor-in-chief. Home for Camryn is the Fraser Valley. She lives in Surrey and divides her summers between her two favourite places: Kawkawa Lake and Stillwood Camp. Camryn has been interested in literature and creative writing since 2010, when she won her local library’s story-writing competition. Her very first writing endeavor—a children’s book written at age eight for said competition—is still available to borrow in the Fraser Valley Regional Library system.

Bret van den Brink is a fifth-year English honours student at Trinity Western University from Rosedale, British Columbia. He currently serves as a Managing Editor for [spaces], having previously served as a Review Editor and, before that, a contributor. His academic articles on literature and religion have been published in the peer-reviewed journals The Merton Annual, Sinestesieonline, and The Oswald Review. He writes about more popular topics in Radix Magazine and Mars’ Hill, and he discusses them in the podcast he co-hosts, Mandatory Media.

Faith Nelson is a third year English major at Trinity Western University, and is one of [Spaces]’s Managing Editors. She currently works as an assistant in the TWU Archives, and is the research assistant for the ConVersing/ConServing project. She also serves as the treasurer for TWU’s English Society, Inkblots and Inscapes (IBIS). Faith plans on pursuing an MLIS and a career in Archivery.

Livia Wolfs is a fourth year English major at Trinity Western University. She is an associate editor at [spaces]. Livia is currently working at Trinity Western University’s library with the borrowing services. She loves to read while drinking tea: like C.S Lewis said, “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

Abigail ImBeau is a third-year English major at Trinity Western University. She is currently serving as the Art and Design Editor for [spaces]. Abigail takes great joy in combining her interests of literature and art in her position as Art and Design Editor. [spaces] is Abigail’s first literary exploit, but she has dabbled in freelance artistry for the last four years. Abigail has a passion for art, movies, books, and travel. She particularly enjoys painting scenes from movies about books while on planes.

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Jessica Walters has an MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University. Her work has been published in Ormsby Review, Still, Agape Review, and her short story "Glass Jars" was shortlisted for the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Writing. She teaches at a Trinity Western University and is the faculty advisor of [spaces]. 

Connie T. Braun is a Canadian poet and author and has published two books of non-fiction and two poetry chapbooks along with academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews, in various journals and anthologies in Canada, the US and UK. Her poetry has been set to musical compositions, and she has given talks and readings in North America and Europe. Connie has instructed creative writing in the university setting and enjoys mentoring undergraduate writers and editors. As the former faculty advisor for [spaces] she introduced guest contributions to [spaces] that have included two former Canadian Governor General Award Winners, Rudy Wiebe (prose) and George Elliot Clark Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate (poetry) and priest Malcolm Guite, renowned UK poet, among others, and she continues to foster relationships between student writers and a range of established writers. She is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and other Canadian writing associations, and in addition to [spaces] has served on boards for other arts organizations.

Lynn R. Szabo is a devoted scholar of the poet, mystic, and political activist Thomas Meron. She is the editor of the first comprehensive selection of his poetry, In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton (New Directions, 2005), and is Professor Emerita of English Literature, Trinity Western University. In her retirement, Lynn serves as a spiritual director, mentor to writers and young professors, and a facilitator of study groups for the National Council of Jewish Women. Her decades of studying poetry, especially Merton's are one of the pleasures not interrupted by her more recent life as a wheelchair navigator.