Trina Chapman is an emerging writer whose essays have appeared in The Write Launch, Cool Beans Lit. and Half and One. She won an Honorable Mention in the 2023 Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition. Trina holds a double bachelor's degree in English and International Development Studies from the University of Guelph. After a fulfilling teaching career, Trina is now an MFA student at the University of King’s College, where she is writing her memoir, entitled The Aster Glass: Violence, Revelation, and Hope. She spends her free time homeschooling the youngest of her seven children, SUP boarding on local lakes, and obsessing over fermenting the perfect bottle of kombucha. Trina is a repeat adopter of rescue dogs and lives with her family in Halifax, Nova Scotia.