The Seaboard Review of Books Team
James M. Fisher is the editor-in-chief of The Seaboard Review of Books. He lives in Miramichi, New Brunswick, with his wife, Diane; their tabby cat, Eddie; and Buster the border collie. James works as an MRI technologist at the Miramichi Hospital.
Michael Greenstein is a retired professor of English (Université de Sherbrooke). He’s the author of Third Solitudes: Tradition and Discontinuity in Jewish-Canadian Literature and has published widely on Victorian, Canadian, and American-Jewish literature.
Heather McBriarty is a co-admin here at TSR. She’s an author, lecturer, and retired medical radiation technologist based in Saint John, New Brunswick. Her love of reading and books began early in life, as did her love of writing, but it was the discovery of old family correspondence that led to her first non-fiction book, Somewhere in Flanders: Letters from the Front, and a passion for the First World War. She has delivered lectures to the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, New Brunswick Genealogical Society, and Western Front Association (Central Ontario Branch), among others, on the war. Heather’s first novel of the “Great War,” Amid the Splintered Trees, was launched in November 2021. When not writing, she can be found on the water sailing. You can visit her website here.
A former journalist, Melanie Jackson is a Vancouver-based freelance writer and editor for corporate communications, magazines, and newspapers. She oversees our Facebook posts, which she handles like the journo she is! Melanie’s also the author of such middle-grade/young-adult suspensers as the Dinah Galloway Mystery Series (Orca Book Publishers). Like Henry the whale, Dinah is the impulsive type. Her other novels include The Big Dip, Death Drop, and Medusa’s Scream. The Canadian Children’s Book Centre named the latter a Best Book, Middle Readers, 2018 and gave Melanie a TD-CCBC Book Week touring-author award. For more information, check out Melanie’s page on The Writers’ Union of Canada website.
Ontario resident Lisa Timpf writes poetry, book reviews, short stories, and creative non-fiction. Her speculative poetry collections Cats and Dogs in Space (2025) and In Days to Come (2022) are available from Hiraeth Publishing in print and electronic formats. You can find out more about Lisa’s writing projects at on her website. She’s also on Bluesky and Facebook.
Paul Carlucci, our fiction editor, is the author of one novel, The Voyageur, and three story collections, The High-Rise in Fort Fierce, A Plea for Constant Motion, and The Secret Life of Fission. Individually, his stories have been published in Descant, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The New Quarterly, The Puritan, and others. He won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and has been a finalist for two Ottawa Book Awards and two ReLit Awards. He’s a freelance editor, working with academics and research professionals, hybrid and traditional presses, and aspiring authors. You can visit his website here.
A former newspaper editor, Shannon MacLeod is passionate about Canadian Press Style and typography (she gets twitchy when she’s forced to read certain fonts). Shannon enjoys music (singing, playing, and listening), gardening, cooking, baking, reading, and being active in her community. She loves spending time with her husband, DJ; and her dogs, Moe (a pug) and Bronson (a border collie). Shannon has a bachelor of arts from Mount Allison University with a double major in French literature and Canadian history. She also has a journalism certificate from Holland College and has completed training with the International Association for Public Participation. Professionally, Shannon is a primary care engagement advisor for Horizon Health Network. After living for 12 happy years in Miramichi, in December 2024, Shannon started a new chapter living in Cocagne.
Shawna Butler is a mother, retired athlete, and fitness professional. She currently works in the skincare industry with Drunk Elephant. She enjoys watching baseball and reading anything about sports, fashion, poetry, and biographies in her spare time. She likes to travel anywhere warm and sunny. Shawna has a bachelor’s of business administration from Mount Saint Vincent University and lives in Paradise, Newfoundland.
John Oughton lives in Toronto and is a retired professor of learning and teaching at Centennial College in Toronto. He’s the author of six poetry collections, most recently The Universe and All That (Ekstasis Editions), as well as the mystery novel Death by Triangulation and over 400 articles, reviews, and interviews. John’s accomplishments include an master’s in English literature, for which his teachers included Irving Layton, Frank Davey, Eli Mandel, and Miriam Waddington, and he’s taken non-credit courses at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he worked with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, and Robert Duncan. John’s a long-time member of the Long Dash Poetry Group. He’s also a photographer and guitar player. You can visit his website here.
Bryn Robinson (she/her) lives in New Brunswick, Canada, where she uses her PhD in experimental psychology to support mental health research in the province. She prefers contemporary fiction, narrative non-fiction, graphic novels, and poetry that’s emotional and reflective, and if has a sense of humour, all the better. Bryn also writes on Campfire Notebook, where she regularly features original poetry. When not reading, she’s searching for birds in the New Brunswick forests and seascapes, camera in hand.