Editorial Team
Founder & Managing Editor
ASHLEY OPHEIM
Publishing Assistant
HANNAH KARPINSKI
UI / UX Design
Front-End & Back-End Development
WORLD CREATION NETWORK
Past Editors
JAY RITCHIE
SHAZIA HAFIZ RAMJI
TAMARA FAITH BERGER
T. LIEM
A. LIGHT ZACHARY
BRAD CASEY
GUILLAUME MORISSETTE
LAUREN TURNER
Past First Readers
ELI TAREQ EL BECHELANY-LYNCH
IVANNA BARANOVA
ALI PINKNEY
MARCELA HUERTA
PAMELA BEYER
LAURA MARCIANO
AEON GINSBERG
ALEX MANLEY
About
Metatron Press is an award-winning independent publisher based in Montréal / Tio’tia:ke. Since 2014, we’ve been committed to publishing bold new voices in poetry, hybrid literature, and genre-defying work. We focus on emerging writers and underrepresented perspectives, creating space for writing that challenges, transforms, and connects.
We publish work that is intimate, urgent, and formally inventive—writing that blends the poetic with the philosophical, the personal with the digital, the speculative with the political. Our authors push the boundaries of genre and language, offering fresh visions of what literature can be.
Our titles often move between the literary and the experimental, crossing into digital, visual, and performative realms. We support our authors through close editorial collaboration, thoughtful design, and forward-thinking publishing models.
Metatron is a home for writing that feels ahead of its time—literature that reimagines the present and invites the future.
Over the past decade, we’ve published 50+ books, hosted 50+ events, and launched a constellation of side projects, including:
✶ GLYPHÖRIA, our multidisciplinary digital poetry imprint
✶ DIGI-PUBS, a curated collection of long-form digital texts, manifestos, and poetic ephemera
✶ ÖMEGÄ, our online publication and archive
✶ The International Metatron Poetry Prize, an international award for emerging poets
✶ Metacösm, a podcast devoted to long-form interviews with poets and writers
✶ MICROMETA, a micro-lit Instagram series
Receive
We recognize the financial support and contribution of the CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, who have supported us through their Literary Publishing Projects and Digital Now programs.
We also recognize the support of SODEC, who have supported us via their Translation program, as well as CHRC, who have supported us with their Student Work Placement Program funded by the Government of Canada. Our initial funding in 2015 was provided by Quebec’s JEUNES VOLONTAIRES program.
The rest is just love and devotion,
Sustain
All of our books are printed and bound locally in Quebec, Canada, and are produced using natural, unbleached Rolland Enviro® Book paper made with 100% post-consumer fiber.
Give Back
Metatron Press believes in utilizing our platform as a means not only to uplift contemporary voices but also to raise awareness and funds for important causes in our communities. We are committed to re-distributing funds to marginalized folks, paying reparations, investing a portion of our earnings back into our community, and donating book bundles to communities in need. We also partner with bookstores and organizations that share similar goals.
We have supported many organizations and causes in the past, including The Native Women’s Shelter of Montréal, Chez Doris, Solidarity Across Borders, Taking What We Need, Meals for Milton Park, Open Door Books – Montreal’s Books-to-Prisoners Initiative, Youth Climate Lab’s Rooted in Rest initiative, Black Healing Fund, Sisters In Motion, Allies for Black Lesbian DIY Fest, Black Visions, Hoodstock and more.
Acknowledge
Metatron Press lives and works on the lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka. The Kanien’kehá:ka are the easternmost member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The land that we live and work on is commonly referred to as Montréal but its original names are Tiohtiá:ke to the Haudenosaunee and Mooniyang to the Anishinaabeg.
We direct readers to read and heed the Calls to Action from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Commission of Canada.
Metatron Press is proudly committed to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).