Gwen Goodkin, MFA 2011
Gwen Goodkin’s stories have been published by The Dublin Review, Witness, The Carolina Quarterly, Fiction, JMWW and others. Her short film Winnie, based on her own short story, won the Silver Prize for Short Script in the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest. She is the recipient of the John Steinbeck AwardS and has been nominated for […]
Laurel MacMillan, MFA 2015
Laurel MacMillan is a curator, writer, editor and translator based in Toronto. She graduated from the UBC Creative Writing Masters Program in 2015 with a thesis in literary translation.
Caroline Goodwin, MFA
Caroline Goodwin is currently serving as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California. She has published three poetry chapbooks and one full-length collection, Trapline. In 1999, she moved from Sitka, Alaska to the Bay Area to attend Stanford’s creative writing program as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. She currently lives in Montara, […]
Chloe Rose, MFA
Chloe Rose is a Montreal-born screenwriter and producer. Her short films Big O (2015), Computer Creed (2014) and Dis Pleis (2014) have received multiple awards and festival screenings in Vancouver and abroad. She holds a DEC diploma in Film Production from Dawson College in Montreal and a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of […]
Jan Redford, MFA 2015
Jan Redford is a writer living in Squamish BC who has been climbing, mountain biking and skiing for thirty-odd years. She is a French Immersion teacher by profession, but gave up her grade three class in the interior of BC to move to the coast twelve years ago. She has studied at seven colleges and […]
Zac Hug, MFA 2015
Zac Hug is a television writer and essayist living in Los Angeles. Zac was a staff writer for season five of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva. He is the creator and writer of These People, a web series with Jim Rash, Keith Powell, and Carolyn Hennesy. Zac has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and […]
Richard Stevenson, MFA 1984
Richard Stevenson was born in Victoria, B.C., in 1952 and has lived in western Canada and Nigeria. A college English teacher by profession, he has taught English, Canadian and African literature, Business Communication, Creative and Technical Writing, E.S.L., and humanities courses in high schools and colleges. A former Editor-in-Chief of Prism international, he has served […]
John Vigna, MFA 2007
John Vigna’s first book of fiction, Bull Head, was published to critical acclaim in Canada and the US in 2012 (forthcoming in France by Éditions Albin Michel in 2015). It was selected by Quill & Quire as an editor’s pick of the year and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. John was named […]
Nancy Lee, MFA
Hailed by The Toronto Star as a pure and fearless writer, Nancy Lee is the author of two books. Dead Girls, a collection of short stories, earned the VanCity Book Prize and was named book of the year by Now Magazine. The Age, a novel, garnered equal praise, described by the Globe and Mail as […]
Miranda Pearson, MFA 1998
Miranda is the author of four poetry collections and completed her MFA at UBC in 1998, where she was poetry editor for Prism International. She has taught at UBC and at SFU. She is originally from England and currently in lives in Vancouver. Publications: Prime The Aviary Harbour The Fire Extinguisher