Tina Wayland is completing her Creative Writing MA at Concordia University, where she won the department’s 2021 McKeen Award for “Where the Light Gets In.” She’s been published in such places as carte blanche and Open Door Magazine. Tina’s story “The Tending of Small Gardens” made the 2021 CBC Non-Fiction Prize longlist and was published in Headlight Anthology. Her poem “Foxholes” was shortlisted in Room Magazine’s 2022 Short Forms Contest.