Rhett is a writer, academic and consultant from Geelong, Australia. After graduating from the MFA in 2015, he returned home and completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Deakin University in 2020. The novel he wrote for his PhD won the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and will be published by Hachette Australia.
Not a real snake.
You can find Alison on Twitter 
Alison graduated from the BFA program in 2010 and the MFA program in 2014.
Christopher lives in Vancouver, BC, where he completed his BFA in Creative Writing at UBC in 2014, and is a current MFA candidate. His fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in print and online magazines in Canada, Australia, Ireland, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. His stage play Drifting was produced for the 2014 Brave New Play Rites Festival and his text-based art installation project‚ Places of Refuge‚ is currently installed at UBC’s Point Grey campus. He currently works as the Prose Editor of PRISM international magazine.
Adrick Brock is a writer from Toronto, Ontario. His fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, EVENT, The Malahat Review, Riddle Fence, The Dalhousie Review and was shortlisted for the 2012 CBC Short Story contest. His first published story, ‘Nina In The Body Of A Clown,‘ won the 2014 Western Magazine Award for Fiction. His journalism has appeared in Vancouver Magazine, Modern Farmer, Canoe & Kayak, and Megaphone. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and currently lives in Vancouver, where he enjoys hiking and embarrassing himself on dance floors.
Matt Malyon is the founding Director of Underground Writing, a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Washington through literacy and personal transformation. He is also a prison, jail, and juvenile detention chaplain, and the author of the poetry chapbook, During the Flood. His poetry has received a Pushcart Prize nomination and has been featured in various journals— including the University of Iowa’s 100 Words, Rock & Sling, Measure, and The Stanza Project. He serves as a Mentor in the PEN Prison Writing Program, and recently founded the One Year Writing in the Margins initiative.
www.oneyearwritinginthemargins.org
Publications:
Currently working on first poetry manuscript, fiction, and lyrics for two concept albums.
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 a Pushcart Prize.
Publications:
Short stories & essays in:
The Dublin Review
Witness
The Carolina Quarterly
The Rumpus
Fiction jmww
Atticus Review
Split Lip Magazine
Reed Magazine
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 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, south of San Francisco, and teaches at California College of the Arts in both the MFA writing and BA Writing & Literature programs, as well as Stanford’s Writer’s Studio and occasionally UC Berkeley Extension.
Poetry Chapbooks:
Kodiak Herbal
Gora Verstovia
Peregrine
Poetry collection
Trapline
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 British Columbia.
Short Films (writer):
Big O (2015)
Winner: Outstanding Original Screenplay (Persistence of Vision Film Festival 2015)
Official Selection at Whistler Film Festival 2015 and Ottawa International Film Festival 2015.
Selection: VIFF 2015
Computer Creed (2014)
Nominated: Best Student Production (Leo Awards 2015)
Dis Pleis (2014)
Official Selection: VILAFF 2015
Official Selection at Whister Film Festival 2015
Journey To She (Pre-Production)
A Canadian, a Mexican and an American (Pre-Production)
Web-series (co-writer/producer):
Green-ish (2015) Finalist (Storyhive 2015)
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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 universities, including The University of Calgary (B.Ed.), The Writer’s Studio at SFU, and UBC, where she just completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (2015). She has attended Sage Hill Writing Program, Banff Mountain Writing, and Banff Wired. In November 2015, she participated on a panel called A Summit of One’s Own‚ to discuss mountain literature by and about women at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Jan has recently completed a memoir set in small mountain towns and climbing communities of the Canadian Rockies. End of the Rope: Mountains, Men and Me, is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow. Two chapters from her manuscript, Grant’s Lunch, and God or Boys, have placed in writing contests: in 2009 with the Vancouver International Writer’s Festival, and in Room‚ 2011 non-fiction contest, respectively. Her chapter, End of the Rope, was published in 2013 with the Banff Press in Rock, Paper, Fire: Best of Mountain and Wilderness Writing. An earlier version of this manuscript‚ under the title, Remember The Lilac, was long-listed in SFU’s 1st Book Competition in 2010. In addition, her work has been published in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Mountain Life, Explore, several anthologies, and has won or been short- and long-listed in eight writing contests. In 2013, she was awarded a $6,000 scholarship from the BC Arts Council.
Explore Magazine (Hot On Your Heels) 2014
Mountain Life Magazine (Profile: Melissa Sheridan) 2014
Rock, Paper, Fire: Best of Mountain and Wilderness Writing (End of the Rope)
Room, Issue 35.2 (God or Boys) 2012
Still Running: North Shore Writers’ Association Anthology (MMA Fighter Mom) 2010
Emerge, SFU Anthology (Canadian Pushover) 2007
Faith Lost and Found, The National Post (Who’s the Real Christian?) 2007
Facts & Arguments, The Globe & Mail (I Married a Stuntman) 2007
Writing From the Edge: North Shore Writers’ Association Anthology (The Big Sex Talk) 2006