Robyn Braun, MFA 2022
Robyn Braun is an award-winning writer and scholar. Robyn’s debut novella, The Head, is published by Enfield and Wizenty, an imprint of Great Plains Press. Her essay, “The Stutter of Emmett’s Stutter” won subTerrain’s 2021 Lush Triumphant Prize for creative nonfiction. Robyn earned a Master’s scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada […]
Genevieve Scott, MFA 2015
Genevieve Scott, MFA 2015, is a Canadian writer and writing teacher based in Southern California.
Kevin Spenst, MFA 2011
Kevin Spenst is the author of four full-length books of poetry along with sixteen chapbooks including Surrey Sonnets (JackPine Press), Recto Verso Chez the Devil’s Printers (co-written with Joshua Pitre for Collusion Books) and Hymned Data (Pinhole Poetry.) He is one of the organizers of the Dead Poets Reading Series, has a chapbook review column […]
Lucas J. W. Johnson, MFA 2011
Lucas J. W. Johnson (he/him) is a writer, game designer, and entrepreneur. He is the author of several works of fiction including his 2022 debut novel The Clockwork Empire, and the Founder and Studio Director of Silverstring Media Inc., a narrative design and videogame studio. He has written several critically acclaimed and award-winning games including […]
Nathan Adler, MFA 2020
Nathan Adler is author of Wrist, and Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press), and co-editor of Bawaajigan ~ Stories of Power (Exile Editions), he has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, is recipient of an Indigenous Voices Award, and a Hnatyshyn Reveal award, and teaches Creative Writing at Kwantlen University. He is Jewish and Anishinaabe, and a member of Lac des Mille […]
Emily Davidson, MFA 2012
Emily Davidson is a writer from Saint John, New Brunswick. Her poetry has appeared in publications including Arc, CV2, Descant, The Fiddlehead, Room, subTerrain, and The Best Canadian Poetry 2015. Her fiction has appeared in Grain and Maisonneuve and was short-listed for The Malahat Review’s 2013 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction. Emily resides in […]
Nadine Bachan, MFA 2015
Nadine is a Vancouver-based writer, born in Trinidad and raised in Toronto. Nadine’s nonfiction work explores culture and identity. In 2020, she received an Award for Project Assistance for Creative Writers from the BC Arts Council and she was a Research and Creation Grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2018. Recent […]
Rachel Rose, MFA 2005
How did your time in the Creative Writing Program influence your work? The Creative Writing Program’s requirement to write across genres was an invitation for me to experiment. I will soon have published books in poetry, non-fiction, and fiction. As well as this inspiration to move outside of my comfort zone, I received wise and […]
Cheryl Archer, MFA 2018
How did your time in the Creative Writing Program influence your work? The habit of daily writing encouraged in the UBC Creative Writing Program as well as the thrilling experience of workshopping creative pieces (albeit virtually) were instrumental in my development as a writer. The all-important presence of the creative writing teachers was also imperative. […]
Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin, MFA 2015
What’s your latest published/performed work(s)? Her latest story, “Hot Mess: the hidden perils of Canada’s pot laws” made the cover of Maisonneuve’s Fall 2019 issue. What are your most recent awards? The Tom Wolfe mentorship award with the Solutions Journalism Network (2018-2019) Are you connected to any creative writing communities you’d like to mention (UBC […]