Katherin Edwards: A Thin Band
A Thin Band examines the fine line between remembering and forgetting, the expected / unexpected, and the moments that we retain in altered forms filtered by memory. It is also an elegy to wonder and surprise at how we manage to live in the midst of grief and loss.
Joseph Hutchison, MFA 1974
Joseph Hutchison, Poet Laureate of Colorado (2014-2018), is the award-winning author of 15 poetry collections, including The World As Is: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2015; The Satire Lounge; Marked Men; Thread of the Real; and Bed of Coals. He has co-edited two poetry anthologies; ”The FutureCycle Press anthology Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai (all profits […]
Tara Gilboy, MFA 2014
Tara Gilboy holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, where she specialized in writing for children and young adults. Her debut middle-grade novel, Unwritten, was published in October 2018 by Jolly Fish Press. She teaches creative writing for San Diego Community College District’s Continuing Education program and for the PEN […]
Anneliese Schultz, MFA 1977
Anneliese was shortlisted for the 2016 UBC/HarperCollins Best New Fiction Prize for her collection “The Edible, the Beauteous, and the Dead”. A 2014 Pushcart Prize nominee and former Bread Loaf Scholar, she has won the 2016 Stone Canoe Fiction Prize, the 2013 Meringoff Fiction Award and the 2013 Enizagam Literary Award in Fiction. Her short stories, travel pieces and poetry […]
Ellen Keith, MFA 2016
Ellen Keith recently published her debut novel The Dutch Wife – a historical fiction work that she completed during the MFA Optional Residency program at UBC and has reached #1 on the Globe & Mail Canadian Fiction Bestseller List.
Kevin Chong: The Plague
A modern retelling of the Camus classic that posits its story of infectious disease and quarantine in our contemporary age of social justice and rising inequity.
Timothy Taylor: The Rule of Stephens
Writing with stinging precision about the knife-edge balance between what is known and what is believed, Timothy Taylor bridges the divide between literary fiction and page-turning thriller in this psychological tale of guilt, doubt and doppelgangers.
Maureen Medved: Black Star
Medved’s new novel is a searing critique of a world we all know too well – one of sexual exploitation, manipulation, and the subtle machinations of power that Black Star filters through the lens of academia.
Keith Maillard: Twin Studies
An engrossing, timely, and contemporary novel about the bonds between twins, about sexuality and gender fluidity, and about the messy complexities of modern family life.
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