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 […]
Kelly S Thompson, MFA 2014
Kelly S Thompson is an award-winning writer and editor and a former Captain in the Canadian Forces. She has a degree in Professional Writing from York University, a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and a certificate in Publishing from Ryerson University. She was the President of the Professional Writers Association […]
Joseph Hutchison, MFA 1974
Joseph Hutchison, Poet Laureate of Colorado (2014-2018), is the award-winning author of 15 poetry collections, including The World As Is: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2015; The Satire Lounge; Marked Men; Thread of the Real; and Bed of Coals. He has co-edited two poetry anthologies; ”The FutureCycle Press anthology Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai (all profits […]
Tara Gilboy, MFA 2014
Tara Gilboy holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, where she specialized in writing for children and young adults. Her debut middle-grade novel, Unwritten, was published in October 2018 by Jolly Fish Press. She teaches creative writing for San Diego Community College District’s Continuing Education program and for the PEN […]
Anneliese Schultz, MFA 1977
Anneliese was shortlisted for the 2016 UBC/HarperCollins Best New Fiction Prize for her collection “The Edible, the Beauteous, and the Dead”. A 2014 Pushcart Prize nominee and former Bread Loaf Scholar, she has won the 2016 Stone Canoe Fiction Prize, the 2013 Meringoff Fiction Award and the 2013 Enizagam Literary Award in Fiction. Her short stories, travel pieces and poetry […]
Ellen Keith, MFA 2016
Ellen Keith recently published her debut novel The Dutch Wife – a historical fiction work that she completed during the MFA Optional Residency program at UBC and has reached #1 on the Globe & Mail Canadian Fiction Bestseller List.