Katya Kazbek

John Elizabeth Stintzi (JES) is a non-binary & trans novelist, poet, visual artist, editor, and teacher who was born and raised on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario. Their work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, The Watermill Center, and has been awarded the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the inaugural Sator New Works award from Two Dollar Radio for their novel, My Volcano. JES’s work has been published in places like Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and Best Canadian Poetry.