Meet Our Team

Maya Ameyaw

**Maya Ameyaw** is the InkWell Workshops Program Lead, a workshop instructor and a young adult fiction author. Her debut novel *When It All Syncs Up* (Annick Press) was named one of Kirkus’s Best Young Adult Books of 2023. Her second book *Under All the Lights* will be published in October 2024 and her third book *Spiraling Out* will be out in Winter 2026.

Dominik Parisien

**Dominik Parisien** is an editor, writer, and poet. He is the author of the poetry collection *Side Effects May Include Strangers* (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and his writing has appeared in *Maisonneuve, PRISM International, EVENT, This Magazine,* and The Literary Review of Canada, among others. He co-edited, with Navah Wolfe, *The Mythic Dream, Robots vs Fairies,* and *The Starlit Wood*, all published through Simon & Schuster’s Saga Press, and *Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction*, with Elsa Sjunneson. He also edited the 2019 and 2020 program for the FOLD and he is an associate prose editor for *Plenitude Magazine*. As an editor, he has won the Hugo, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, and Aurora Awards. Dominik is a disabled, bisexual French Canadian. He lives in Toronto.

Elyse Friedman

**Elyse Friedman** is a critically acclaimed author of six books. Her work has been short-listed for the Trillium Book Award, The Toronto Book Award, the Relit Award and the Tom Hendry Award. Her short story, *The Soother*, won the gold National Magazine Award for fiction, and she has twice won the TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award. Her most recent novel is *The Opportunist.*

Alexandra C. Yeboah

Alexandra C. Yeboah is a Brampton-based writer, emerging artist, creative wanderlust, and contemplative thinker. A second-generation Canadian to immigrant parents, Alexandra is keen on writing on bicultural identity and the myriad ways it intersects with our everyday experiences. Through her participation as an artist in the Mayworks Festival’s Labour Catalyst program in May 2021, she published a booklet that profiled twelve leading labour activists in Canada. Her personal essays and poetry explores identity, self-acceptance, playful discovery and growth, and cultural heritage. Today Alexandra remains a devoted fan of exploratory walks, impromptu karaoke sessions, curious adventures, and lengthy, rambling conversations. She is working on her first collection of non-fiction stories.

Past Instructors & Collective Members

Leonarda Carranza
Eufemia Fantetti
Kathy Friedman
Ana Rodriguez Machado
Jeff Latosik
Stuart Ross
Leanne Toshiko Simpson

Past Instructors

Westwind Evening
Liz Howard
Mahak Jain
Kilby Smith-McGregor
Andrea Thompson

Guest Mentors & Instructors

Roxanna Bennett
Yvonne Brown
Antonio Michael Downing
Hollay Ghadery
Sheung-King
Rowan McCandless
William S. Meneses
Guillaume Morrissette
George Zancola