piKe krpan, Reviews Editor
Pike Krpan is a queer community and anti-racist activist, graduate
student, and performance poet. Originally from Alberta, she now lives in
Toronto. She studied women’s studies and international development studies
at Trent University in Peterborough, where she also was a member of the
Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty (PCAP) and Arthur Student and
Community Newspaper. She wrote literary review and queer culture columns for
that newspaper for 2 years before organizing and editing a special 16-page
Queer Lines supplement in March 2004. She now lives in Toronto and works as
a researcher, editor and writer. You can find her writing in Shameless,
This! Magazine, Eye Weekly, and in the office-vaults of her professors. She
is also a co-editor at Descant Magazine. A firm believer in the power of
words to create freedom, she has also worked for PEN Canada.