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
Winona Kent was born in London, England. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at age 3, and grew up in Regina, where she received her BA in English from the University of Regina. After settling in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.
Winona has been a temporary secretary, a travel agent and the Managing Editor of a literary magazine. Her writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. Her spy novel Skywatcher was a finalist in the Seal Books First Novel Competition, and was published in 1989 by Seal in Canada, and Bantam in the US. The sequel, The Cilla Rose Affair, was first published in 2001 and was reprinted as an e-book in 2011.
Her third novel, Cold Play, which takes place aboard a cruise ship in Alaska, was published in 2012.
Winona’s fourth novel, Persistence of Memory, was published by Fable Press as an e-book and trade paperback in September 2013, and is the first in The Memory Books series featuring time-traveller Charlie Duran and her companion, Shaun Deeley.
All four of the above novels were re-issued by New York’s Diversion Books in July 2015. The second novel in Winona’s Memory Books series, In Loving Memory, will be published by Diversion Books in July 2016.
Winona currently lives in Burnaby and works as a Graduate Programs Assistant at the University of British Columbia.
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Will is the author of two novels from Simon & Schuster: Lord Vishnu‘s Love Handles and The Worthy. He was named by Rolling Stone as the Hot Pop Prophet and is The New York Times Editor’s Choice. Will is also an active member of the TED community: an Audience Choice TEDx Speaker with over 130,000+ views. Will lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife and family.
Brenda Leifso’s poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada. Her first book, Daughters of Men, was published by Brick Books in 2008 and was shortlisted for Ottawa’s Archibald Lampman award for best book of poetry. She lives in Kingston, Ontario, with her family of five.
Publications:
Daughters of Men, 2008,
Barren the Fury 2015
Kevin Chong was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver. He’s the author of five books of fiction and non-fiction. As a journalist, his work has appeared in a range of publications, including Taddle Creek, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Maisonneuve, Vancouver Magazine, and The Walrus. He teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia and SFU’s The Writer’s Studio, co-edits Joyland Magazine, and lives in Vancouver with his wife, Holly, and her son, Joe.
Novels
Beauty Plus Pity
Baroque-a-Nova
Non-Fiction
Neil Young Nation
My Year of the Racehorse
Northern Dancer
Michelle Deines is an award-winning writer who works in multiple genres, including poetry, non-fiction, and drama. Her poetry has been published in several magazines, including Artis Natura, The Writer’s Cafe Magazine, Event, and Contemporary Verse 2. Her non-fiction has appeared such publications as Understorey and Maisonneuve. Michelle’s plays include an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, I am the Bastard Daughter of Engelbert Humperdinck (co-written with Kathryn Kirkpatrick) and Ghosts in Baghdad, which won the Special Merit Prize in Theatre BC’s National Playwriting Competition in 2013. Michelle is a faculty member of the Theatre Department at Capilano University, and graduated with an MFA from UBC in 2011. She lives in Vancouver.
https://www.michelledeines.com/
Publications
Various magazines, incuding The Malahat Review, and Canadian Dimension
Matthew J. Trafford is the author of The Divinity Gene: Stories. His fiction has appeared in The Malahat Review and Matrix and has been anthologized in I.V. Lounge Nights and Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow, among others. He has won the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction and an honourable mention at the National Magazine Awards and has twice been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Prize. He lives in Toronto, where he works with Deaf college students.
Publications
Rhonda Collis is a writer living on Vancouver Island, BC. She graduated from the UBC Optional Residency Master of Arts in Creative Writing program in 2011, with a focus on the novel. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared widely in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies across Canada the UK and the US, including The Antigonish Review, Room Magazine, The Vancouver Review, On Spec Magazine, The Bridport Anthology, Regreen Anthology, Smartish Pace, ARC, and The Fiddlehead with a story forthcoming in Subterrain magazine. She has taught for Camosun College in Victoria and currently serves on the editorial board for Prism magazine.
Diane Tucker was born in 1965 in Grace Hospital in Vancouver. and grew up in the southeast quadrant of the city, where from the age of pretty much nothing she would get up in front of people and perform. This continued unabated until she graduated from John Oliver Secondary School. She earned a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from UBC in 1987, after which she married Jim and spent several years as a library clerk until her daughter Elizabeth was born in 1990. She then devoted herself to mothering (son Joe was born in 1993) and writing.
Her first book of poems, God on His Haunches (Nightwood Editions, 1996) was shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her second poetry book, Bright Scarves of Hours, was published by Palimpsest Press in 2007. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and in more than sixty journals in Canada and abroad. Her first novel, His Sweet Favour, was released by Thistledown Press in 2009.
Her most recent book of poems, Bonsai Love, was released by Harbour Publishing in 2014.
She has recently branched out into writing plays. Her first full-length play, Here Breaks the Heart: The Loves of Christina Rossetti, was produced in 2013 by Calgary’s Fire Exit Theatre.
Diane has been leading writing workshops for many years and has curated several public reading series. She has also served on the executives of both the Burnaby Writers’ Society and the League of Canadian Poets. She has done at least a hundred public readings of her own work.
Currently Diane is on the organizing committee of the Dead Poets Reading Series, a bimonthly excursion into the great works of deceased poets, held at the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library (www.deadpoetslive.com).
Publications
Books
Sandgrain Leaf, poetry chapbook, The Alfred Gustav Press, 2010
Manna Days, self-published poetry chapbook, 2009
Bright Scarves of Hours, poems, Palimpsest Press, 2007, www.palimpsestpress.com
Love Along the Tongue, self-published poetry chapbook, Moth Press, 2001
God on His Haunches, poems, Nightwood Editions, 1996, www.nightwoodeditions.com
Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press, 2013)
The Verse Map of Vancouver (Anvil Press, 2009)
Northern Lights: an anthology of Canadian Christian writing (Wiley, 2008)
In Our Own Words VII (MW Enterprises, 2007)
String to Bow (Leaf Press, 2005)
From This New World (Ten Dollar Words Publishing, 2003)
Line by Line (Ekstasis Editions, 2002)
My poems, short fiction, and essays have been published widely in journals such as The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, and The Malahat Review as well as in several anthologies, most recently, Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013, and I Found it at the Movies: an Anthology of Film Poems (2014). I have published two books of poetry, Somewhere, a Fire, and Erratic. In 2014, I completed my MFA at UBC for which I received a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Research Grant. My thesis, titled Summer of the Horse, is a non-fiction manuscript that explores both the physical landscape of the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-KMA), located in northern British Columbia’s Northern Rockies, and the metaphysical landscape of the human mind.