Staff
| Desirée Ossandon CEO & Editor-in-Chief DesireeO@CanadaArtsConnect.com Chloe Vice |
Ryan Drew Hayward Business Manager RyanDH@CanadaartsConnect.com Beth Smith Eugenia Catroppa |
Writers
Desirée Ossandon
DesireeO@CanadaArtsConnect.com
News Writer
Column: Ask the Artistic Pro *Coming soon! |
Desirée Ossandon (Desirée O / D. Cole Ossandon) is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist as well as the founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Canada Arts Connect and Canada Arts Connect Magazine. Her work is often experimental - exploring culture, society, and human nature - and has appeared in publications including Shameless Magazine, Matrix Magazine, Branch Magazine, The Incongruous Quarterly, ditch, and Steel Bananas. www.DesireeO.com
Natalie Zina Walschots
NatalieZed@CanadaArtsConnect.com
Column: Girls Don’t Like Metal
Natalie Zina Walschots writes. Her base of diabolical operations is located in Toronto, ON. Her interests include poetry, heavy metal, comic books, video games, gastroporn, sadomasochism, feminism, and supervillainry. www.nataliezed.ca
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Catherine Romano
Catherine@CanadaArtsConnect.com
Column: Stage RIGHT
Catherine Romano is a Toronto based dancer, photographer and writer. With a focus on dance subcultures, such as the house party scene, burlesque showcase, and street dance battle, Catherine is most interested in performances that take place outside the traditional theatre environment. www.sweetspectacle.com
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Dina Del Bucchia
Dina@CanadaArtsConnect.com
Column: Tell Me About Your First Time
Dina’s a graduate of the UBC MFA program in Creative Writing. She is a host and coordinator of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series and many other literary events. Her writing has appeared in Matrix, Event, Poetry is Dead, The Great Divide and The Acrobat. Her first book of poetry is Coping With Emotions and Otters (Talonbooks, 2013). She lives in Vancouver.
Corrie Peters
Corrie@CanadaArtsConnect.com
Column: Life/Style
Freelance journalist and filmmaker based out of Vancouver, BC. www.unnomdeguerre.com
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Lee Weisser
Lee@CanadaArtsConnect.com
Column: Take Charge of Your Career
Lee Weisser helps creative people build successful careers on their own terms and smooth out the roller coaster of ‘feast or famine’. This includes celebrating their creative talents as well as identifying other gifts they have to create alternate streams of revenue. She works with clients to create a unique career plan that matches their values, strengths and skills. www.acoachforallseasons.com
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Ryan B. Patrick
RyanBP@CanadaArtsConnect.com
Column: URBAN/intersection
Ryan B. Patrick is a Toronto-based writer and music journalist who has contributed to a number of national media outlets (print, online, radio) including Exclaim! Magazine, Huffington Post Canada, Sway Magazine, BlogTO.com, NOW Magazine, and CBC Music. His interests include being immersed in and documenting the Canadian arts and culture scene. www.urbanguy.net
Jessie Davis
Jessie@CanadaArtsConnect.com
Column: The ROC
Jessie Davis sings and plays in Meniscus Curve (www.meniscuscurve.com) and writes about the arts whenever she’s not snuggling her cats. www.jmorgandavis.com
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Tristan Biggs
Column: The Writer’s Block
Tristan Biggs grew up in the middle of nowhere, only to rise up in the ranks of life to complete his BaH in English from the University of Guelph, in hopes of one day becoming a respected author. He is an avid gamer, blogger (www.wideawakeandgaming.com), lover of literature and art, and proud husband to his lovely wife Jaime, with whom he spends his days in historic Guelph where they met.
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