About Myna

Myna Wallin is a poet, prose writer, small press publisher and radio host. She took on the position of Poetry Editor at Tightrope Books, January, 2007. She and Halli Villegas are now the new co-coordinators of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair.

She has published 3 chapbooks: Vulnerable Positions (2002), The Old Abandonment (2003) and Warning Signs, which came out in the fall of 2005.

She has also been published in many literary journals and anthologies including: The Algonquin Square Table Anthology, eye Weekly, Existere, Kiss Machine, Moosecall: Big Game, Small Stories, NoD, Taddle Creek Magazine, Surface and Symbol, The Literary Review of Canada, and Word: Canada's Magazine for Readers and Writers.

She hosts "In Other Words" on the second Tuesday of every month at 2 pm on CKLN 88.1 FM interviewing authors from across Canada.

As of January 2007, Myna is now an Art Bar team member for the Art Bar Reading Series. She guest hosts at the Art Bar Series regularly. Check her events page for details.

She and David Clink have been co-publishing poetry chapbooks through believe your own press since 2002, bringing new authors to light and now publishing more established authors in unique projects as well. You can find out more about Myna's work as a small press publisher at: www.poetrymachine.com/believe

Myna has her Masters degree in English Literature from U of T. She works in Toronto as a freelance editor.