Cole Mash (he/him) is a writer, scholar, teacher and community arts organizer who lives on unceded Syilx-Okanagan territory in Kelowna, BC. He has performed poetry locally and nationally for over 10 years, and his creative work has been published in magazines throughout Canada, including CV2, Pinhole Poetry, Forget Magazine, and NōD magazine. His lyric-memoir, What You Did is All it Ever Means, was published with Broke Press in 2021. Cole’s critical work has been published in Scholarly and Research Communication and the SpokenWeb Blog, and he is the co-editor of Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound from McGill-Queen’s University Press. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of non-profit arts organization Inspired Word Café, holds a PhD in English from Simon Fraser University, and teaches English and Creative Writing at Okanagan College. After many years with the SpokenWeb project at SFU, Cole is incoming as the 2024 SpokenWeb UBCO Coordinator. He has a wonderful partner, four kiddos, and two kitties whom he loves all the way to the bottom.