CRAB APPLE LITERARY
CRAB APPLE LITERARY
Meet the Crab Apple Lit Team
Cassandra Sarah Pegg
Editor-in-Chief
Cassandra Sarah Pegg (she/her) is a writer and editor in Montreal with an MA in English Literature from Concordia University. She loves all that is whimsical and fantastical, and has a soft spot for Victorian fairies. She is contemplating (and occasionally writing) a novel, writes weird stories, and is a serial hobbyist. She worked as a fiction reader for Headlight Anthology, and as a publishing assistant at Presses Renaissance Press. Her creative work can be found in Soliloquies Anthology, pixie literary magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, and All Worlds Wayfarer, among others.
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Brooke Bastien
Poetry Editor
Brooke Bastien (she/they) is an artist, educator, and writer in Tiohtiake • Montreal. They are currently pursuing a Master's degree in English Literature and serving as a poetry editor for Crab Apple Literary.
Isabelle Bury
Poetry Editor
Isabelle (@430hzfm) has a BA in English Literature from UofT and an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia. She EiC-ed three chapbooks at @clownhousearts and served as a poetry reader for @headlight_anthology.
She’ll champion your poem if it’s comprehensibly incomprehensible—or versa vice.
Rivkah Groszman
Fiction Editor
Rivkah Groszman is an emerging writer based in Montreal. Her work has appeared in Pixie Literary Magazine, Soliloquies Anthology, and Transformative Works and Cultures. She is a member of the editorial board of Linda Leith Publishing and a creative non-fiction editor at SQUID Literary & Arts Magazine. Rivkah is currently completing her MA in creative writing at Concordia University, where she is writing a novella with funding from the Fonds du recherche du Québec. Her proudest achievement is naming her cat Bimbo.
Jennelle Jagdeo
Fiction Editor
Jennelle Jagdeo is a writer from Hamilton, Ontario who is currently residing in Montreal. Currently, Jennelle is pursuing her Master’s degree in English Literature at Concordia University, writing her thesis on queer Caribbean diasporic literature and archives. Jennelle’s creative work revolves around the intimacies and horrors of everyday life.
Founding Members
Katie Cossette
Cassandra Sarah Pegg