Announcing Dessa Bayrock as our Poetry Editor
Shrapnel enthusiastically welcomes Dessa Bayrock to our team as Poetry Editor! She will be leading our poetry section by providing insightful feedback to submissions and selecting exciting work for publication that fits Shrapnel’s vision in collaboration with her own taste.
Dessa Bayrock lives in Ottawa with two cats, one of whom is very loud and almost always nearby. She used to fold and unfold paper for a living at Library and Archives Canada, and is currently a PhD student in English, where she continues to fold and unfold paper.
She has two chapbooks with Katie Stobbart: The Trick to Feeling Safe at Home (Coven Editions, 2021) and Worry & Fuck (Collusion Books, 2021), as well as one with just her poems about bad dreams, Is It About Ruins and Ghosts? (Ghost City Press, 2019).
She was the editor of Post Ghost Press for nearly three years and was the recent recipient of the Diana Brebner Prize. You can find her, or at least more about her, at dessabayrock.com, or on Instagram at @dessayo, where she reviews books and posts anti-capitalist memes.
We look forward to the thoughtfulness and enthusiasm that Dessa will bring to the poetry Shrapnel celebrates.
Jo Ramsay
is a Canadian media and publishing enthusiast who works as a literary assistant at P.S. Literary Agency as well as the editorial director of Shrapnel Magazine. She’s worked in publishing for over six years at places such as Simon and Schuster, Arsenal Pulp Press, PRISM International, Greystone Books, and This Magazine. She’s lived in Canada, the UK, and Japan.