Victoria Bell, MFA 2010
Victoria Bell is an editor and writer living in Ottawa. She graduated from the UBC Optional Residency Master of Arts in Creative Writing program in 2010, with a focus on the novel. She is represented by Jennifer Udden of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Find her on Twitter: @VictoriaMBell http://victoriabell.wordpress.com
Jessica Cullen, MFA 2006
Born in Calgary, Alberta Jessica is nevertheless a devoted British Columbian and proud University of British Columbia alumni – both from Secondary Education and Creative Writing. After completing her MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre in 2006, Jessica Cullen continued to teach high school English and Drama in Vancouver and then went on to teach […]
Jean Van Loon, MFA 2013
Jean is an Ottawa native, married to another one, mother of two more and grandmother of three Ottawa granddaughters. An unrepentant throwback in the age of mobility. After a career as an executive in the federal public service and as head of a national industry association, Jean plunged into the world of creative writing. Hooked […]
Rhea Rose, MFA 2013
Rhea lives in Port Coquitlam, BC. While in UBC’s MFA program she focused on screen writing (Sara Graefe), poetry (Susan Musgrave) and writing for children (Maggie De Vries). Her stories and poetry have appeared in a collection of anthologies, both Canadian and US. She has had award nominations; including the Rhysling and Canadian Aurora award. […]
Jeremy Townley, MFA 2012
J.T. Townley has published in Collier, Harvard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Threepenny Review, and other places. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MPhil in English from Oxford University, and he spent time at Fundación Valparaíso, Spain as a fiction fellow. A Pushcart Prize nominee […]
Susan Olding, MFA 2007
Susan Olding is the author of Pathologies: A Life in Essays, winner of the Creative Nonfiction Collective‚Äôs Readers‚Äô Choice Award for 2010. Her writing has appeared widely in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies across Canada and the United States, including TNQ, The L.A. Review of Books, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, and the Utne Reader, and […]
andrea bennett, MFA 2012
andrea bennett is a National Magazine Award–winning writer and editor and the author of two travel guides, one book of poetry, and, most recently, the essay collection Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary (Arsenal Pulp Press), a CBC Books’ pick for the top Canadian […]
Janette Fecteau, MFA 2008
Janette Fecteau is a poet and artist living in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She is a graduate of the Optional-Residency program in its first (and most radical) cohort. Attending the residencies provided an opportunity to go wildly astray with anarchists like Susan Musgrave, Zsuzsi Gartner, Tom Hansen, Tadzio Richards, and many other excellent sorts. Since then, […]
Roslyn Muir, MFA 2012
Roslyn Muir is an award winning screenwriter, story editor and producer. Her script, The Birdwatcher, an indie micro-budget feature in post production was funded by Telefilm; starring Camille Sullivan, Gabrielle Rose, and Garwin Sanford; director, Siobhan Devine, producer, Ines Eisses, Executive Producer, Alex Raffe. Her MOW thriller script, Anatomy of Deception, starring Natasha Henstridge, was […]
Nikki Vogel, MFA 2014
Most of the time you can find Nikki at her desk spinning yarns. When she isn’t there, she’s out playing tennis, or maybe riding her bike. Publications Istanbul Review, Filling Station, Room Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, Infective Ink, Empty Sink Publications, You Can’t Kill Me, I’m Already Dead (Anthology) Behind the Yellow Wallpaper New Tales […]