Brandy Lien Worrall, MFA 2010
Brandy’s highly anticipated first memoir, What Doesn’t Kill Us, chronicles her journey with an aggressive, rare breast cancer at the age of 31. The book reflects on the parallels between her experiences with cancer and the subsequent demise of her marriage, and her American father’s and Vietnamese mother’s trauma and survival during and after the Vietnam […]
Joe Wiebe, MFA 2006
Joe Wiebe, the “Thirsty Writer” is the author of Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries (Douglas & McIntyre, May 2013), the definitive guidebook to British Columbia’s burgeoning craft beer industry. The book was a B.C. bestseller in 2013 and won the Gourmand Award for Best Beer Book in Canada. A fully revised […]
Annabel Lyon, MFA 1996
Annabel Lyon is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing program at UBC. She’s the author of seven works for adults and children. Her newest book is a forthcoming YA novel entitled Nora in Paris. Publications: Oxygen The Best Thing for You All-Season Edie Encore Edie The Golden Mean Imagining Ancient Women The Sweet Girl
Cathryn Morris, MFA 2010
Cathryn Morris graduated from the University of Central Florida summa cum laude and Honors in Film in 2001. In 2010, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from UBC in the non-residency program. From working in Canada’s Arctic to being politically evacuated from a small African dictatorship, Cathryn believes life experience and adventure are good […]
Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, MFA 2014
Charles-Adam Foster-Simard grew up on the South Shore of Montréal and completed a BA in English Literature at McGill University. His essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Millions, The Puritan, Prairie Fire, and Grain.
Ann Ireland, MFA 1976
Prize winning author of 4 novels and occasional journalist. Contributing editor to Numero Cinq Magazine; Past president of PEN Canada; Academic Coordinator and Instructor at the Chang School of Continuing Education, Writing Workshops Department, Ryerson University, Toronto; Freelance Editor. www.annireland.ca Publications 4 Novels: A Certain Mr. Takahashi; The Instructor; Exile; The Blue Guitar A […]
Jeffrey Ricker, MFA 2014
Jeffrey Ricker is the author of Detours (2011) and the YA fantasy The Unwanted (2014), both published by Bold Strokes Books. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction, A Family by Any Other Name, Men of the Mean Streets, and others. A 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow, he is a graduate […]
Monica Meneghetti, MFA 2012
Monica Meneghetti is a multilingual language professional and writer with a penchant for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Her translation of Simone Moro’s adventure memoir,The Call of the Ice: Climbing 8000- Meter Peaks in Winter (Mountaineers Books), is the first-ever English edition among this renowned alpinist’s books. Monica’s poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and […]
Francine Cunningham, MFA 2015
Francine Cunningham is an Aboriginal writer, artist and educator originally from Calgary, Alberta but who currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Francine has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from The University of British Columbia. She also has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from UBC. She graduated from Keyano College in […]
Sandra Lynn Lynxleg, MFA 2013
Sandra Lynn Lynxleg was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1961. She is a status member of the Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve No. 4 in Manitoba. Her father is of Scottish-Irish heritage and her mother is Saulteaux (Ojibwe-Cree). Sandra has been married for thirty-one years and has three grown daughters. She holds a B.Ed. degree through […]