Plenitude Magazine is excited to announce its newest editors!
Join us in welcoming Amanda Merpaw and Loch Baillie as our new Associate Poetry Editors, and Joelle Kidd as our new Associate Prose Editor, alongside L’Amour Lisik.
With Amanda and Loch coming aboard, we’re sad to say goodbye to Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin, who has been with us since December 2021 as an Associate Poetry Editor. Rhiannon selected excellent and provocative poetry over the years, and we wish her all the best in her future endeavours and poetry writing!
Hoping to get to know our newest editors? Look no further!
Amanda Merpaw (she/her) is a queer writer and editor from Ottawa, currently based in Toronto (Treaty 13). She is the author of the collection Most of All the Wanting (Palimpsest Press, 2024) and the chapbook Put the Ghosts Down Between Us (Anstruther Press, 2021). Amanda has been a finalist for Arc’s Poem of the Year contest, The Fiddlehead Fiction Contest, and the Montreal Fiction Prize, and her writing has appeared in various magazines, including The Capilano Review, CV2, Grain, and Prairie Fire. She is currently a member of the editorial board at Anstruther Press.
Amanda has previously been published in Plenitude, you can check out her poem “Essay on Closure” here!
Originally from Massachusetts, Loch Baillie (he/him) is a queer writer and editor now based in Quebec City. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks, ice, dove parachute (Cactus Press) and Citronella (Anstruther Press), as well as the forthcoming collection River Running (icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions, 2026). Loch’s writing has appeared in magazines such as Maclean’s, Font, yolk literary, and Ahoy. He currently serves as poet-in-residence for the Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence and is pursuing his MA in English literature at Université Laval. You can find him online @lochbaillie or by visiting www.lochbaillie.com
Loch has previously been published in Plenitude, you can check out his poem “Traces of Nowhere” here!
Joelle Kidd (she/her) is a writer, award-winning journalist, and editor who lives in a book-filled basement apartment in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The Walrus, This Magazine, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, and Xtra Magazine. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph. Her first book, Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down Wolrd of Christian Pop Culture, is forthcoming from ECW Press in August 2025.
