Aaron Bushkowsky, MFA 2015
A prolific writer, Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver-based playwright, film-writer, poet, novelist, and educator. His plays have been produced across Canada, the US, and Europe, and have received 9 Jessie Richardson Theatre nominations, more than any other Canadian playwright, winning two for Outstanding Original Play. He has been a resident playwright at The Vancouver Playhouse, […]
Suzanne Kamata, MFA 2016
American Suzanne Kamata lives in the prefecture of Tokushima in Japan. She is the author of the novels Losing Kei, Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible, and Screaming Divas, as well as the short story collection The Beautiful One Has Come. She has also edited three anthologies including Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers […]
Gillian Wigmore, MFA 2015
Gillian Wigmore is the author of three books of poems, including Orient, published by Brick Books, Dirt of Ages, published by Nightwood Editions, and soft geography, published by Caitlin Press, which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay award and won the 2008 Relit award. She has also written a novella, Grayling, published by MotherTongue Publishing […]
Jordan Hall, MFA 2015
Jordan Hall is an emerging artist whose work has been dubbed “stellar, insightful”by Plank Magazine, “thoughtful” by CBC Radio, and “vivid, memorable” by NOW. Her first full-length play, Kayak, won Samuel French’s 2010 Canadian Playwrights Competition, and has been produced to critical acclaim across North America. An Associate at Playwrights Theatre Centre from 2010-2013, she […]
Rob Taylor, MFA 2016
Rob Taylor is the author of two poetry collections, The News (Gaspereau Press, 2016) and The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books, 2011). His poems, short stories and essays have been published in over fifty journals and anthologies, including The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Geist and In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. […]
Chelsea Rooney, MFA 2012
Chelsea Rooney is an author and teacher living in Vancouver. Her debut novel Pedal was published in 2014 by Caitlin Press and was nominated for the 2015 Amazon First Novel Award and the 2015 ReLit Novel Award. She hosts a monthly episode of The Storytelling Show on Vancouver Co-op Radio. www.chelsearooney.com PEDAL “Julia Hoop, […]
Emily Pohl-Weary, MFA 2010
Emily Pohl-Weary is an award-winning author, editor, and creative writing instructor. Her latest books are Ghost Sick, a collection of poetry about tragedy and resilience in downtown Toronto, and Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl, a young adult fantasy novel. Her previous books include a Hugo Award-winning biography, a ghost love story, a female superhero anthology, […]
Brent van Staalduinen, MFA 2015
Brent van Staalduinen is an award-winning novelist and story writer from Hamilton, Ontario, and the author of the novels UNTHINKABLE, NOTHING BUT LIFE, BOY, and SAINTS, UNEXPECTED, as well as the short story collection CUT ROAD. He has been nominated for a White Pine Award, won the Kerry Schooley Book Award and Bristol Short Story […]
Christine Leclerc, MFA 2010
Leclerc is an editor of The Enpipe Line (Creekstone Press, 2012) and portfolio milieu (milieu press, 2004). She is also the author of Oilywood (Nomados Editions, 2013; bpNichol Chapbook Award, 2014) and Counterfeit (CUE, 2008). Leclerc holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. christineleclerc.com
Rhett Davis, MFA 2015
Rhett is a writer, academic and consultant from Geelong, Australia. After graduating from the MFA in 2015, he returned home and completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Deakin University in 2020. The novel he wrote for his PhD won the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and will be published by […]