Nara Monteiro is a Brazilian-Canadian editor, writer, and nerd based in Tkaronto. They are an editor at Room and a managing editor at Augur magazine. Nara has a Master of Publishing from Simon Fraser University, where they wrote their thesis on the impact and survival of feminist literary magazines in Canada while serving as Room’s publisher. By day they edit cookbooks and gardening guides, and after hours you can find them in the nearest patch of woods with their nose in a book.