The Toronto Review has a roster of accomplished contributors who provide and edit The Review’s material, but we are always open to submissions, so long as they are original and compelling.

Send submissions and ideas to iain.marlow@gmail.com

Iain Marlow, Editor

Based in Toronto, Canada. Writes about international politics. Iain holds a B.A. from Carleton University, in both human rights and journalism, and an MSc international politics (Distinction) from London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, where he studied Chinese foreign policy and domestic history, as well as international political theory. He worked for more than a year at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper, and did a short stint at London’s The Independent. He contributes satire to The Feathertale Review and is currently a staff writer at The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, where he writes about communications technology, including on trips to India and China.

Laura Fitch, Senior Editor (China)

Based in Beijing, China. Writes about, records and photographs Chinese art and culture. Laura has spent the last nine years living and working in Asia. A graduate of Carleton University’s journalism program, she has freelanced articles for a variety of publications on topics that range from immigration in Japan to underground comic art in Beijing. Her work has appeared in The Global Post, The South China Morning Post, and The Japan Times, among others. She currently works as a magazine editor in the capital.

Eivind Fjeldstad, Senior Editor (Africa)

Currently based in Tanzania, East Africa. From Sømna in the north of Norway, he has an MA in African Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He has worked in Ethiopia and Tanzania, and studied in Dar es Salaam, Ghana and South Africa. His fields of interest are democracy and elections in the Horn of Africa, a topic he is currently pursuing in Tanzania. He is a project coordinator of Dialogue Africa, and has initiated and planned several dialogue seminars on the Horn of Africa.

Sigrun Marie Moss, International Correspondent

Based in Norway. She is currently a research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.  She recently finished an 8-month contract in Pemba, Tanzania, where she was working as an adviser for the International Law and Policy Institute. She has an MSc in Social and Community Psychology from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has visited 50 countries, and lived in the UK, the Sudan and Tanzania. Her research focuses on truth mechanisms and cultural tools in inter-group conflict resolution, and leadership and conflict.

The Development Insider

The Toronto Review’s development issues columnist shall remain nameless, since s/he works in a major western capital’s marquee development agency and will, on occasion, be critical of Established views. They have multiple degrees, from various universities which we shall not name, and has a wealth of practical work experience in development agencies across the global north and across the global south, which we also shall not name.

Alana Range, International Correspondent

Based in New York, USA. Alana is a freelance multimedia journalist based out of Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of the Carleton journalism program, she’s worked in documentary film, public radio, print and online. Most recently, she produced a weekly audio podcast series for the Science & the City program, in New York. Her multimedia work has appeared in Discover Magazine, on CBC Radio, Guggenheim.org, and the New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, among others. She is presently in the Philippines on a 6-month re-housing project fellowship.

Brett Popplewell, Contributing Correspondent

Based in Toronto. Brett, formerly an investigative reporter with Canada’s largest circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, is now a senior writer with Sportsnet Magazine in Toronto. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Gazette (Montreal), the Ottawa Citizen and others. He has reported from South America, Africa, Europe and Russia, and is the founding editor of feathertale.com and its printed counterpart The Feathertale Review, a bi-annual literary journal devoted to satire.

Mathieu Labrèche, Contributing Correspondent

Based in Toronto. Mathieu is a freelance writer and currently works in strategic communications at the Ontario Ministry of Finance. He has previously worked in Brussels, Belgium with a leading public affairs consultancy and European public policy forum. He writes about European affairs, international public policy and transatlantic relations. Mathieu holds a Joint Honours B.A. from the University of Ottawa, in both Communication and Political Science, and a M.A. in Political Strategy and Communication (Distinction) from the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies.