Our Writers
Jenna Kalinsky, Principal & Founder, One Lit Place
Jenna holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught creative and academic writing at University of Toronto Scarborough, Humber College, and Western University, where she redesigned the Continuing Studies Creative Writing program. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in mainstream and literary magazines, including in the LA Times best-selling The Modern Jewish Girls’ Guide to Guilt (Penguin). Originally from Los Angeles, Jenna has lived in New York, Germany, and now makes her home in Toronto, Canada.
- Fiction & Creative Nonfiction: instruction & coaching in craft and practice
- Academic articles & dissertations: structural consultation & editing
- Grammatical instruction
- Manuscript consultation: developmental feedback & substantive editing
- Copyediting & Proofreading
- Web Copy: writing & editing
- Business documentation
Alice Neiley, Writing Instructor
Alice Neiley’s creative non-fiction prose has appeared in Eckleburg Review, Provincetown Arts Magazine, and Underwater New York, and her poetry in Vantage Point, Nashville Review, and Tahoma Review. She received a BA in English Literature from the University of Vermont and an MFA from Hunter College, where she was a Hertog fellow and a teaching fellow.
She is currently an adjunct professor of writing and literature at Champlain College, and regularly writes album reviews for a handful of independent musician clientele.
Marcia Walker, Writing Instructor
Marcia Walker holds an MFA from the University of Guelph. Her writing has appeared in Prism international, Room, Event, Antigonish Review, University of Toronto Magazine, This Magazine, The Globe and Mail, CBC radio and The Broken Social Scene Story Project by House of Anansi. She has been shortlisted for Prism’s fiction and non-fiction prize and was a finalist for the 2017 Writers’ Union of Canada short prose competition and the Lascaux Fiction Award. In 2016, her play, Recess, was part of Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell festival. Currently she also co-organizes the Emerging Writer Reading Series in Toronto.
Melissa Campeau, Freelance Journalist
Melissa’s articles have appeared in newspapers, consumer magazines and association publications including the Financial Post, Canadian Living, Profit and HR Professional. Having worked in both the private and not-for-profit worlds, she creates marketing, PR, web and branded content for a range of clients including Royal Bank, Humana, Great Place to Work and Engineers Canada. Melissa lives, works and treks about in Toronto, Canada with her husband, son and dog. melissacampeau.contently.com
- Journalistic writing: editing, coaching and instruction
- Marketing and public relations: writing and coaching
- Web Copy: writing and coaching
- Social media: writing and coaching
- Pitch coaching for magazine and newspaper articles
Our Creative Team
Janet Hoy, The Book Activist for One Lit Place
Pascale Potvin, Assistant
Pascale is a writer and actor from Toronto currently completing her BAH in Stage & Screen Studies at Queen’s University. She has taken on major roles in stage productions such as Hairspray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has also acted in and written the award-winning short films “Walk of Fame” and “Beat.”
Razili Datta, Programming Consultant
Razili is a program management and communications consultant specializing in international development programs who moonlights as a virtual community facilitator and content curator. She earned a BA in Economics and Government from Smith College and an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University. Born and raised in northern California, Razili has lived in western Massachusetts, Washington, DC, and New Delhi, and currently resides in Toronto where she has learned to complain about the winters like a native.
- Corporate and nonprofit report writing
- Copyediting and proofreading
- Presentation writing and development
Our Partners
Tamara Sztainbok, web designer and developer, Puzzle Box Communications
Having worked in the publishing industry for almost 20 years, Tamara well understands writers’ unique needs. She created Puzzle Box Communications, a web design studio, to give writers and creatives a professional and strategic online presence. Puzzle Box Communications provides sales funnel, email marketing, social media, and content marketing. Tamara lives in Toronto with her husband and two children. www.puzzleboxcommunications.com
- Web design and development
- Online strategy
- Email marketing
