Donna Kane, MFA 2014
My poems, short fiction, and essays have been published widely in journals such as The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, and The Malahat Review as well as in several anthologies, most recently, Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013, and I Found it at the Movies: an Anthology of Film Poems (2014). I have published two books of […]
David A. Poulsen, MFA 2010
David A. Poulsen has been a broadcaster, teacher, rancher, high school football coach, stage and film actor and‚ most of all‚ writer. His writing career began in earnest when his story The Welcomin’ won the 1984 Alberta Culture Short Story Competition. Now the author of more than 20 books, many for middle readers and young adults, […]
Estella Carolye Kuchta, BFA 2006
Estella C. Kuchta’s novel, Finding the Daydreamer, will be published by Elm Books in fall 2020, and her nonfiction eco-education book is currently under contract. She has worked as a researcher for a bestselling author Dr. Gabor Mate, an editor for Susila Dharma International, a freelance writer for Parents Canada Magazine, and an English instructor […]
Erika Thorkelson, MFA 2011
Erika Thorkelson is a writer of non-fiction and, occasionally, fiction. She was born in Winnipeg, grew to adulthood in Edmonton and spent extended periods in Dublin, Ireland and Northern Japan. Firmly ensconced in Vancouver since receiving her MFA in 2011, she is a regular contributor of arts and culture writing to the Vancouver Sun. Her […]
Ruth Daniell, MFA 2013
Ruth Daniell is a writer, artist, and performer originally from Prince George, BC. She now lives in Vancouver, where she teaches speech arts and writing at the Bolton Academy of Spoken Arts and runs Swoon, a literary reading series on love and desire. She holds a BA (Honours) from the University of Victoria and her […]
Jane Warren, MFA 2012
Jane Warren has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and undergraduate degrees from University of Calgary (BEd) and McMaster University (BPE). She has published two-dozen short stories and poems in Canada and the UK and has served on the editorial collectives of literary magazines. Currently she lives in the Netherlands […]
Elizabeth Mason, MFA 2009
Originally from England, Elizabeth Mason spent seven years in Berlin before moving to Vancouver to pursue an MFA. She now lives in London. She writes and blogs about places and their pasts, modern ruins, and vanished heydays. https://holidaysoutofseason.wordpress.com Publications No Man Land in Malahat Review, 163 (2008); Blühende Landschaften‚ in Litro, 125 (2013) Futures Past‚ […]
Karim Alrawi, MFA 2013
Karim Alrawi is a novelist and playwright. In addition to his several plays for stage, radio, and television, he is the author of two children’s books, The Mouse Who Saved Egypt (2011) and The Girl Who Lost Her Smile (2000) and, most recently, of the novel Book of Sand (2015). His awards include the John […]
Kathryn Para, MFA 2008
Kathryn Para is an award-winning, multi-genre writer with a MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in Grain, Room of One’s Own, Geist, Sunstream, and Vancouver Review. She is the 2013 Winner of Mother Tongue Publishing’s Search for the Great BC Novel Contest. Her novel Lucky was shortlisted […]
Nazanine Hozar, MFA 2013
Nazanine Hozar was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in British Columbia, Canada. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the Vancouver Observer and Prairie Fire magazine. Aria is her first novel.