Editorial Archive

Meet Our Editors

2023

Lisa Grieve

Editor-in-Chief
Lisa Grieve recently graduated from York University’s English & Professional Writing program. As the previous Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Inventio, she has many years’ experience editing in areas such as animal welfare, transformative fiction, literary journals, and others. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to 90s rock, annoying her cat, and getting lost in alternate universes involving two idiots in love.
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Dunja Dudarin

Assistant Editor-in-Chief
Dunja Dudarin enjoys finding meaning through reading. She aspires to become a better reader, writer, and editor through her time at Inventio, while at the same time being helpful to the writers who share their work with us.
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Jonell Ebreo

Senior Editor, Poetry
Jonell Ebreo is a graduate from the Professional Writing program and a York University alumnus. Having long enjoyed the collaboration in writing, Jonell believes in the importance of discussion and criticism throughout the its process. When not writing or reading, he enjoys video games, cartoons, playing Dungeons & Dragons, and building Legos.
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Leilani Carranza

Senior Editor, Fiction
Leilani Carranza is a recent graduate from York University’s English & Professional Writing program. With a focus on corporate writing and publishing, she hopes to become a literary editor someday. She joined Inventio to improve her editing skills and to help other aspiring writers get their stories into the world.
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Jessica Lappin

Senior Editor, Fiction & Copywriter
Jessica Lappin is a Professional Writing student at York University. She is currently the Senior Editor for non-fiction at Existere—Journal of Arts and Literature. She is passionate about language and social equity, having experience working in a diversity office. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing, and creating hyper-realism art.
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Rebecca Wallace

Junior Editor, Poetry
Rebecca Wallace is a third-year English & Professional Writing student at York University. Being an avid bookworm, she has always had a great appreciation for books and aspires to become an editor in the children’s publishing field. When she’s not studying, she enjoys writing, playing badminton, and building DIY projects.
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Yun Hsu

Junior Editor, Poetry
Yun Hsu is currently a fourth-year student in the English & Professional Writing program at York University.

Shelby Gray

Junior Editor, Poetry
Shelby Gray is an English & Professional Writing student who lives with her two children and two cats. Ever since she could read, she has had a love for it. She is most content when she is spending time in nature.

Past Editors

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to begin by acknowledging the Indigenous Peoples of all the lands that we are on today. While we meet today on a virtual platform, we would like to take a moment to acknowledge the importance of the lands, on which we each call home. We do this to reaffirm our commitment and responsibility in improving relationships between nations and to improve our own understanding of local Indigenous peoples and their cultures. 

York University’s land acknowledgement may not represent the territory that you are currently on, and we would ask that if this is the case, you take responsibility to acknowledge the traditional territory that you are on and its current treaty holders. 

York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. 

We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.

From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations people that call this land home. Please join us in a moment of reflection to acknowledge the effect of residential schools and colonialism on Indigenous families and communities and to consider how it is our collective responsibility to recognize colonial and arrivant histories and present-day implications in order to honour, protect, and sustain this land. 

In recognizing that these spaces occupy colonized First Nations territories and out of respect for the rights of the Indigenous people, please look for, in your own way, to engage in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.