Alumni Profiles

Katherin Edwards, MFA 2013

Katherin Edwards, MFA 2013

Katherin Edwards, former maid, gardener and racehorse groom is currently employed as a home support worker and floral designer. A two-time winner at Eden Mills for poetry, her work has been published in The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review and ARC poetry magazine. A chapbook, The Sky Was 1950 Blue, created in collaboration with artist […]

Andrea Hoff, MFA 2015

Andrea Hoff, MFA 2015

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Gabrielle Prendergast, MFA 2007

Gabrielle Prendergast, MFA 2007

I’m a writer, teacher and designer living in Vancouver, Canada. You can read about my books at www.angelhorn.com. In 2014 I was the Writer in Residence at Vancouver Public Library. In 2015, I was nominated for the BC Book Prizes and chosen to tour the province to promote BC Books. In 2017, I was selected […]

Anthony Demers, MFA 2014

Anthony Demers, MFA 2014

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Carly Vandergriendt, MFA 2016

Carly Vandergriendt, MFA 2016

Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt is a Montreal-based writer, editor, and translator. Her work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in The Malahat Review, Room, Matrix, Cosmonaut’s Avenue, Riddle Fence, (parenthetical), and elsewhere.   www.carlyrosalie.com Follow Carly on Twitter Follow Carly on LinkedIn Follow Carly on Facebook Publications: (parenthetical):http://www.wordsonpagespress.com/2016/11/15/houseboat/ Cosmonaut’s Avenue:http://www.cosmonautsavenue.com/carly-rosalie-vandergriendt-the-host/ Room: https://roommagazine.com/issues/canadian-gothic Columbia College Literary Review:http://sites.cougars.ccis.edu/ccliteraryreview/current-issue The Maple […]

Bob Wakulich, MFA 1999

Bob Wakulich, MFA 1999

Bob Wakulich received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia in 1999. He also holds a BFA in Writing with a Film Studies Minor from the University of Victoria (1996), a BA in Sociology from Lakehead University (1977), and he attended the Banff School of Fine Arts Summer Writing Workshop in […]

Keri Korteling, MFA 2016

Keri Korteling, MFA 2016

Keri Korteling is a writer, editor and teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Her work appears in Red Rock Review 38. She lives with her family in Vancouver, B.C. Follow Keri on Twitter and Instagram.

Aaron Bushkowsky, MFA 2015

Aaron Bushkowsky, MFA 2015

A prolific writer, Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver-based playwright, film-writer, poet, novelist, and educator. His plays have been produced across Canada, the US, and Europe, and have received 9 Jessie Richardson Theatre nominations, more than any other Canadian playwright, winning two for Outstanding Original Play. He has been a resident playwright at The Vancouver Playhouse, […]

Ken McGoogan, MFA 1976

Ken McGoogan, MFA 1976

Ken McGoogan has survived shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, chased the ghost of Lady Franklin from England to Tasmania, and placed a memorial plaque in the Arctic overlooking Rae Strait. He is the author of a dozen books, among them four bestsellers about Arctic exploration: Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner, Lady Franklin’s Revenge, and Race to […]

Owen Laukkanen, MFA 2006

Owen Laukkanen, MFA 2006

Owen Laukkanen is the author of the bestselling Stevens and Windermere series of FBI thrillers, the fifth of which, The Watcher in the Wall, was published in 2016 to critical acclaim. He also publishes obnoxious YA fiction under the pseudonym “Owen Matthews.” A former commercial fisherman and poker journalist, Laukkanen lives in Vancouver with his […]