Elizabeth Polanco

Elizabeth Polanco is a Toronto-based writer and the Interviews Editor of The Ex-Puritan, a Canadian literary journal. Her work can be found in Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, Asymptote, In Review Online, Mildew Mag, and elsewhere.


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“Wrapped in the Spiral”: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo on Creation and Collaboration

Passage of the Spiral (2024) is a film with hazy and indistinct parameters, earning its designation of “pseudo-documentary.” Who is acting, and who is “real”? Which of the many stories being told or represented is true? The film shirks the rigidity of borders—between reality and fiction, between geographies, and between who is permitted to be […]