Elena Bentley
Editor
Elena Bentley (MA English, University of Toronto) is a multi-genre writer and proud Métis aunty. She recently made the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize Longlist for her poem, "Citrus Dreams."
Her poetry chapbook, taliped, was a finalist in the 2022 Vallum Chapbook Award and was recently published by 845 Press. Her poems can be found in various literary journals like Arc Poetry, Room, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, and Poetry Pause, among others. In 2023, she was shortlisted for CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition (Young Adult category). She is also the author of the children’s picture book The Pickle in Grandma’s Fridge (YNWP, 2022).
Elena has previously served as a board member for the Saskatchewan Book Awards and for JackPine Press; as a juror for the 2023 Alberta Literary Awards; as a book reviewer for SaskBooks; and as the Managing/Poetry Editor for Windscript and spring magazines.
Credence McFadzean
Prose Editor
Credence McFadzean is a writer whose stories have appeared in The New Quarterly, Bad Nudes, untethered, and others. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Regina. He lives on Treaty 4 Territory in Regina where he teaches English and Creative Writing at the U of R's Luther College. Since 2022, he has served on the board of the Sage Hill Writing Experience and has been the Vice President since 2023.
Credence is currently working on a fiction manuscript inspired by the myth-making of American slasher films.
Taidgh Lynch
Poetry Editor
Taidgh Lynch is a poet and vilomah from Killarney, Ireland. As a recent immigrant/white settler, he is grateful to live and work in Saskatoon on Treaty 6 Territory and the homeland of the Métis. In the spirit of reconciliation, Taidgh strives to support Indigenous artists and enhance his knowledge of Indigenous ways of being. He is keen to support artists from underrepresented populations, including writers from racialized groups, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, and writers with disabilities.
He completed an MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan in 2019. Taidgh was awarded an Independent Artist Grant in 2022 from SK Arts to complete his poetry manuscript Flash and Shadow (under review). His poetry has appeared in Grain, Prairie Fire, untethered magazine, The Waxed Lemon, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook, First Lift Here, was published by JackPine Press (2019).
Editorial Vision
Grain acknowledges the Indigenous peoples in Saskatchewan and across Canada on whose ceded and unceded lands, including all Treaty lands within Saskatchewan, we live and work. Our team strives to serve its readers by editing and publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in other genres that are diverse and divergent, hybrid and experimental, and sometimes unclassifiable—the best of various attitudes and styles. Grain undertakes to provide a safe publishing forum to showcase and support emerging and established writers from all communities, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, and LGBTQ2S+ writers, those of colour, and/or with disabilities. With a focus on nurturing writers based in Saskatchewan, Grain is dedicated to redefining literary excellence.
