Welcome to The Ampersand Review March Reading Series! Join us in the Creative Campus Gallery at Sheridan College's Hazel McCallion Campus for an immersive evening of readings and discussion. The readings will be followed by an open mic with the sign-up sheet will be available at the event. Slots are limited, so be sure to arrive on time to reserve your time at the mic!

Kate Cayley is our host, and she is also this year's Writer-in-Residence at Sheridan College. Kate Cayley has published two short story collections and three collections of poetry, and her plays have been performed in Canada, the US and the UK. She has won the Trillium Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, and the Mitchell Prize for Poetry, and been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, the ReLit Award for both fiction and poetry, and the K. M. Hunter Award for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Brick, Electric Literature, Joyland, Best Canadian Poetry and Best Canadian Stories, and she has been a writer in residence at McMaster University and the Toronto Public Library.

Johanna Skibsrud is the author of three previous collections of poetry, three novels—including the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, The Sentimentalists—and three nonfiction titles, including The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature, and Being, and most recently, Fool: A Study in Literature and Practice. An Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Arizona, Johanna divides her time between Tucson, Arizona, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Cassidy McFadzean studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and fiction at Brooklyn College. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi 2024). Her poems have appeared in magazines across Canada and the US, and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Maisonneuve, Event, and Slate’s Future Tense Fiction series.