Dear Hannah

We have fucked around and found out

Authors

  • Sue Goyette
  • Tegan Zimmerman

Author Biographies

  • Sue Goyette

    Sue Goyette lives in K'jipuktuk (Halifax) and has published several books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl, (Gaspereau Press, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press, 2021), The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books, 2013). Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, and German and has been featured in films, subways, buses, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. 

  • Tegan Zimmerman

    Tegan Zimmerman is the Editor of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, the Chair of the Alexa McDonough Institute for Women, Gender and Social Justice at MSVU, and the Chair of the International Comparative Literature Association’s Comparative Gender Studies Research Committee. Her research and teaching focus broadly on feminist theory and contemporary women’s literature with an emphasis on mother-daughter relations. She recently published a debut poetry collection called Chimeras (Inanna Publications) and has a co-edited volume with Megan J. Myers titled Living Legacies: Critical Essays on Julia Alvarez forthcoming from Vanderbilt Press.

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Published

2026-08-05

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Vol. 47 No. 2 (2026): Open Issue

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Editorial

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