The Contributors - Taddle Creek

Ian M.

Ian M. was raised in Ajax, Ontario, and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. He currently lives in Japan, where he works and plays. His roughly annual comic, Square, is published by Big Ugly Robot Press. Last updated winter, 2018–2019.

Nick Maandag

Nick Maandag is a Toronto-based cartoonist. His latest book is The Follies of Richard Wadsworth. Last updated summer, 2021.

Andrew MacDonald

Andrew MacDonald has won a Western Magazine Award and been nominated four times for the Journey Prize. He is working on a novel. Last updated summer, 2015.

Jude MacDonald

Jude MacDonald splits her time between Toronto and the former Huttonville, Ontario. She is the author of Jane (Mercury, 1999) and Grey (Arsenal Pulp, 2001), which she wrote when she was a “Judy.” She is working on a new collection of stories. Last updated Halloween, 2008.

David Macfarlane

David Macfarlane lives in Sussex-Ulster. He is the author of Summer Gone (Knopf, 1999) and The Danger Tree (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1991). Last updated summer, 2002.

Dave MacKinnon

Dave MacKinnon is the owner of the tiny, perfect Junkshop recording studio and is one half of the musical group Fembots. He produced all of the magazine’s audio projects, dating back to the The Taddle Creek Album, in 2000. Last updated fall, 2022.

Michelle Magnan

Michelle Magnan lives in Calgary, where she works for the Calgary Herald. Last updated summer, 2007.

Pasha Malla

Pasha Malla, until recently, lived in Riverdale. He is the author of The Withdrawal Method (Anansi, 2008) and All Our Grandfathers are Ghosts (Snare, 2008). Last updated Halloween, 2008.

Steven Charles Manale

Steven Charles Manale lives in Trinity Bellwoods. A regular contributor to Chickadee, Steven draws monsters and robots, for business and pleasure, respectively. He is the creator of the Ignatz Award–nominated kids comic strip, Superslackers. Outside of print, Steven prefers to be called “Steve.” Last updated summer, 2014.

Ruth Mandel

Ruth Mandel lives in Seaton Village. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, the Fiddlehead, and Prairie Fire. Last updated Christmas, 1999.

Jennifer Marston

Jennifer Marston lives in Sussex-Ulster, the official name for that neighbourhood sandwiched between Kensington and the Annex. She is a recovering lawyer and the past editor-in-chief of two legal periodicals. She now works as a freelance writer and dabbles in the book arts. In 2009 she became one of the first two Taddle Creek protégés. Last updated summer, 2009.

Rachelle Maynard

Rachelle Maynard lives in the Annex. She has good hair. Her illustrations have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Last updated Christmas, 2006.

Suzette Mayr

Suzette Mayr is the author of four novels. Her most recent, Monoceros, won the ReLit Award and the W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, and was long-listed for the Giller Prize. Last updated summer, 2015.

Jason McBride

Jason McBride lives in Roncesvalles Village. He writes on pop culture for a number of publications. Last updated Halloween, 2008.

Cory McCallum

Cory McCallum has been slaving away for little or no pay within the music industry for more than twenty years, amassing quite a catalogue of material no one has much time for. Since being headhunted for word-wrangling duties at PlierPants, in 2011, Cory and the inimitable Matthew Daley have collaborated on a number of projects that both challenge the conventions of comic-osity (and English!) and exorcise (exercise!) their own artistic hang-ups. Their first full-length comic book collaboration, The Pig Sleep, won the Gene Day Award for Self-Publishing at the 2013 Joe Shuster Awards. Cory lives in Orangeville, Ontario, with his wife and two kids (none of whom read his work or listen to his music). Last updated spring, 2014.

Sue McCluskey

Sue McCluskey lives in Toronto. Last updated summer, 2004.

J. R. McConvey

J. R. McConvey has had stories short-listed for the Journey Prize, the Bristol Short Story Prize, and the Matrix Lit Pop award. His work has appeared in the Malahat Review, Joyland, the Puritan, and the New Quarterly. Last updated winter, 2019–2020.

Derek McCormack

Derek McCormack has contributed to the magazine since 1997. His most recent novel is The Well-Dressed Wound. His upcoming book is titled Castle Faggot. Last updated summer, 2019.

Alison McCreesh

Alison McCreesh is a cartoonist, illustrator, and fibre artist from Chicoutimi, Quebec, now living in Yellowknife. She is the author of the graphic novel Ramshackle. Last updated summer, 2017.

Sophie McCreesh

Sophie McCreesh is a fiction writer living in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Hobart, Bad Nudes, and Peach Mag. Her novel, Once More, With Feeling, was recently published. Last updated summer, 2021.

Judy McCrosky

Judy McCrosky, when not circumnavigating the globe, lives in Saskatoon. She runs a creative writing program for Holland America cruise line’s world tour, and is the author of four books, with a fifth due this fall. Last updated summer, 2010.

Rod McDonald

Rod McDonald lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He is a type designer and typographer who has produced typefaces that are sold worldwide by FontShop International and Agfa Monotype. He has also designed type for the range of Canadian periodicals, including Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Applied Arts, Saturday Night, and Canadian Business. Cartier Book, his reworking of Cartier, Canada’s first typeface, was chosen for inclusion in the Monotype Classics Library of typefaces. In 2002, he designed the magazine’s display typeface, TC Stillson, a modern recreation of Stillson, designed in 1899 by the renowned Chicago type foundry Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. Last updated Christmas, 2003.

Deanna McFadden

Deanna McFadden recently bought a fixer-upper in the Village of Brockton. Currently, not losing her mind is on the top of her list of priorities. She has contributed to the magazine since 1999. Last updated summer, 2006.

Dakota McFadzean

Dakota McFadzean is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in The Best American Comics and Mad, and on Funny or Die. His books include Other Stories and the Horse You Rode In On and Don’t Get Eaten By Anything. He co-edits, with Andy Warner and d.w., the comics anthology Irene. He lives with his wife in Toronto, where he works as a storyboard artist for DreamWorks. Last updated winter, 2015–2016.

Cassidy McFadzean

Cassidy McFadzean lives in Regina and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She published her first collection, Hacker Packer, in 2015. Last updated winter, 2016–2017.

David McGimpsey

David McGimpsey has written six collections of poetry, most recently Asbestos Heights, which won the A. M. Klein Prize. He is the Montreal fiction editor of the on-line journal Joyland. Last updated summer, 2016.

Catherine McGuire

Catherine McGuire lives in Sweet Home, Oregon. Her work has appeared in the Smoking Poet, the New Verse News, Folio:, and Adagio. Last updated summer, 2010.

Scott McIntyre

Scott McIntyre lives in Beaconsfield, with his wife, daughter, and beagle. His work has appeared in Crank, Descant, and Regina Weese. Last updated Christmas, 2005.

Sally McKay

Sally McKay lives in Little Italy. She is an artist, writer, and curator. Last updated summer, 2008.

Saro McKenna

Saro McKenna is a Seaton Village resident. She is a national science fair winner and has been awarded a scholarship to complete high school in Switzerland. Her first published work appeared in the Christmas, 1999, issue of Taddle Creek. Last updated Christmas, 2000.

Lauren McKeon

Lauren McKeon is the editor of This magazine. Last updated winter, 2012–2013.

Matthew McKinnon

Matthew McKinnon lives in Koreatown, though his heart belongs to Parkdale. He is the editor and designer of thewalrus.ca, the designer of taddlecreekmag.com, and an instructor of journalism. Last updated November, 2013.

Brian McLachlan

Brian McLachlan lives in the Grange Park area. He writes for Owl, writes and draws the cartoon The Princess Planet, for the Toronto Star, and has written for Vice. He is the author of the graphic novel No Dead Time (Oni, 2004). Last updated summer, 2005.

Leanna McLennan

Leanna McLennan is from Saint John, New Brunswick, lived most of her life in Toronto, and currently lives in New York. Her writing has appeared in the Antigonish Review, Broken Pencil, Fiddlehead, and Geist. She has performed in the Second City touring company and currently writes and performs comedy. Last updated summer, 2019.

Mark Medley

Mark Medley lives near Little Italy, Toronto. He writes about arts and culture for the National Post. His writing has appeared in publications across North America, including the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Descant, This Magazine, Spacing, and the Mississippi Review. Last updated summer, 2010.

Shawn Micallef

Shawn Micallef lives in Downtown Toronto. He is a senior editor and co-owner of Spacing magazine, and the author of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (Coach House, 2010). He recently wrote the text for Patrick Cummins’s new photo book, Full Frontal T.O. (Coach House, 2012). Last updated summer, 2012.

Chris Michalski

Chris Michalski lives in Etobicoke. His poems and translations have appeared in Prism International, the Antigonish Review, the Spoon River Poetry Review, the Marlboro Review, Fire, and Puerto del Sol. Last updated summer, 2008.

Robb Mirsky

Robb Mirsky is an illustrator and cartoonist. His most recent series is Sludgy, a cute little horror comic about a swamp monster looking for good vibes and good friends. His other characters include Dingus and Dum-Dum, and the Lemon Brigade. He first contributed to the magazine in 2019. Last updated fall, 2022.

Alex Mlynek

Alex Mlynek is a former contributing editor of Taddle Creek. She is a writer, editor, and researcher. Her work has appeared in This Magazine, Azure, and Broken Pencil. Last updated winter, 2012–2013.

Susan Mockler

Susan Mockler lives in Summerhill. She has recently completed a collection of linked short stories, entitled Not Available in Canada. Last updated summer, 2007.

Susana Molinolo

Susana Molinolo lives between Little India and the Beach. She is a mom, wife, writer, and editor. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Now, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. She is currently the editor of Triathlete magazine and a columnist for weewelcome.ca, and is writing/editing a parenting anthology about nursing in public. Last updated summer, 2006.

John Montgomery

John Montgomery is the art director of Reader’s Digest Canada and Sélection. He was Taddle Creek’s contributing designer from 2000 to 2022. Last updated fall, 2022.

Mary Ann Moore

Mary Ann Moore lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She facilitates Flying Mermaids, a women’s writing circle. Her poetry has appeared in the Church-Wellesley Review, Seeds, and Jones Ave. Last updated Christmas, 2006.

Nathaniel G. Moore

Nathaniel G. Moore lives in Christie-Ossington. His books include Wrong Bar (Tightrope, 2009) and Pastels Are Pretty Much the Polar Opposite of Chalk (DC Books, 2010). He also wrote the film Macho Girls, which was inspired in part by his short story “Savage.” He once held the record as the author most rejected by Taddle Creek. But not any more. Last updated winter, 2012–2013.

Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She is the author of three novels, Alligator, February, and Caught, and two story collections. Her latest book is the young adult novel Flannery. Last updated summer, 2017.

Jim Munroe

Jim Munroe has written graphic novels and prose novels praised by Pulitzer winner Junot Diaz and comics legend Neil Gaiman, and lo-fi sci-fi feature films applauded by Wired and the Guardian. His political video games have appeared at Sundance and Cannes, and he co-founded the world's first videogame arts organization. He was an Art Gallery of Ontario Artist-in-Residence in 2014. He has contributed to the magazine since 2001. Last updated Winter, 2019–2020.

George Murray

George Murray lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He is the author of three books, including The Cottage Builder’s Letter (M. & S., 2001). His work has appeared in publications in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Last updated summer, 2006.

Terry Murray

Terry Murray has been a medical journalist for more than 35 years. She has held staff positions at Canadian Family Physician and the Medical Post, and been a consultant for the World Health Organization. She also writes about non-medical subjects, including architectural history. Her specialty is reclaiming forgotten lives, including those of Toronto sculptor Merle Foster, and Murray’s own parents and their contributions to the civil-rights movement in the nineteen-sixties. Her book about gargoyles and other architectural sculpture, Faces on Places: A Grotesque Tour of Toronto, won the 2007 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit. Last updated summer, 2018.

Dimitri Nasrallah

Dimitri Nasrallah lives in Montreal. His second novel, Niko, was nominated for CBC’s Canada Reads and the International impac Dublin Literary Award. Last updated summer, 2017.

Jacqueline Nelson

Jacqueline Nelson lives in Yorkville. She is a business reporter with the Globe and Mail’s Streetwise team, writing about market-moving news. Previously, she worked for Canadian Business, where she was a writer and fact checker (and sometimes even a model). Last updated summer, 2012.

Hal Niedzviecki

Hal Niedzviecki has published numerous books, including the short story collection Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened. He is the fiction editor, founder, and publisher of Broken Pencil. He has contributed to the magazine since 1997. Last updated winter, 2014–2015.