2010 – 2019

Alison Cobra, MFA 2014

Alison Cobra, MFA 2014

Not a real snake. You can find Alison on Twitter  Alison graduated from the BFA program in 2010 and the MFA program in 2014.

Christopher Evans, MFA 2017

Christopher Evans, MFA 2017

Christopher lives in Vancouver, BC, where he completed his BFA in Creative Writing at UBC in 2014, and is a current MFA candidate. His fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in print and online magazines in Canada, Australia, Ireland, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. His stage play Drifting was produced for the 2014 Brave […]

Adrick Brock, MFA 2015

Adrick Brock, MFA 2015

Adrick Brock is a writer from Toronto, Ontario. His fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, EVENT, The Malahat Review, Riddle Fence, The Dalhousie Review and was shortlisted for the 2012 CBC Short Story contest. His first published story, ‘Nina In The Body Of A Clown,‘ won the 2014 Western Magazine Award for Fiction. His […]

Matt Malyon, MFA 2015

Matt Malyon, MFA 2015

Matt Malyon is the founding Director of Underground Writing, a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Washington through literacy and personal transformation.  He is also a prison, jail, and juvenile detention chaplain, and the author of the poetry chapbook, During the Flood.  His poetry has received a Pushcart […]

Gwen Goodkin, MFA 2011

Gwen Goodkin, MFA 2011

Gwen Goodkin’s stories have been published by The Dublin Review, Witness, The Carolina Quarterly, Fiction, JMWW and others. Her short film Winnie, based on her own short story, won the Silver Prize for Short Script in the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest. She is the recipient of the John Steinbeck AwardS and has been nominated for […]

Laurel MacMillan, MFA 2015

Laurel MacMillan, MFA 2015

Laurel MacMillan is a curator, writer, editor and translator based in Toronto. She graduated from the UBC Creative Writing Masters Program in 2015 with a thesis in literary translation.    

Jan Redford, MFA 2015

Jan Redford, MFA 2015

Jan Redford is a writer living in Squamish BC who has been climbing, mountain biking and skiing for thirty-odd years. She is a French Immersion teacher by profession, but gave up her grade three class in the interior of BC to move to the coast twelve years ago. She has studied at seven colleges and […]

Zac Hug, MFA 2015

Zac Hug, MFA 2015

Zac Hug is a television writer and essayist living in Los Angeles. Zac was a staff writer for season five of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva. He is the creator and writer of These People, a web series with Jim Rash, Keith Powell, and Carolyn Hennesy. Zac has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and […]

Will Clarke, MFA 2015

Will Clarke, MFA 2015

Will is the author of two novels from Simon & Schuster: Lord Vishnu‘s Love Handles and The Worthy. He was named by Rolling Stone as the Hot Pop Prophet and is The New York Times Editor’s Choice. Will is also an active member of the TED community: an Audience Choice TEDx Speaker with over 130,000+ views. Will lives […]

Michelle Deines, MFA 2011

Michelle Deines, MFA 2011

Michelle Deines is an award-winning writer who works in multiple genres, including poetry, non-fiction, and drama.  Her poetry has been published in several magazines, including Artis Natura, The Writer’s Cafe Magazine, Event, and Contemporary Verse 2.  Her non-fiction has appeared such publications as Understorey and Maisonneuve.  Michelle’s plays include an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense & […]