Most of the time you can find Nikki at her desk spinning yarns. When she isn’t there, she’s out playing tennis, or maybe riding her bike.
Publications
Istanbul Review, Filling Station, Room Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, Infective Ink, Empty Sink Publications,
You Can’t Kill Me, I’m Already Dead (Anthology)
Behind the Yellow Wallpaper New Tales of Madness (Anthology)
Little Bird Writing Contest Runner Up and Honorable Mention 2012
Brandy’s highly anticipated first memoir, What Doesn’t Kill Us, chronicles her journey with an aggressive, rare breast cancer at the age of 31. The book reflects on the parallels between her experiences with cancer and the subsequent demise of her marriage, and her American father’s and Vietnamese mother’s trauma and survival during and after the Vietnam War. The book crosses borders, from rural, Amish-country Pennsylvania, where she’d grown up, to Vancouver, where Brandy lived with her parents, husband, and two young children while enduring aggressive chemotherapy, radiation, and a double mastectomy.
Brandy is currently working on a second memoir, which delves into the Vietnam War stories her parents and half-sister told while she was growing up and excavates deeply buried secrets of loss and regret. She is represented by Anne McDermid & Associates Literary Agency.
She lives in Vancouver with her husband, Anton, her three children, Chloe, Mylo, and Moxie, and their two cats, CBB and Zircon.
Joe Wiebe, the “Thirsty Writer” is the author of Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries (Douglas & McIntyre, May 2013), the definitive guidebook to British Columbia’s burgeoning craft beer industry. The book was a B.C. bestseller in 2013 and won the Gourmand Award for Best Beer Book in Canada. A fully revised second edition will be published by Douglas & McIntyre in March 2015.
One of Canada’s top beer writers, Joe is working on a book about the history of brewing in Vancouver called Tales from Brewery Creek and has his sights set on a national beer book in the next couple of years.
Joe has been a freelance writer for 15 years, writing hundreds of articles a wide range of subjects including arts and culture, sports, business and travel, but since 2008, he has mainly written about craft beer with regular columns for the Northwest Brewing News, Vancouver View, UrbanDiner.ca and the BC Craft Beer News, as well as beer-soaked stories in BCBusiness, WestWorld, Beer West, Taps, Publican, NUVO, Taste and Boulevard. He also blogs for Tourism B.C.
Joe is a co-founder of Victoria Beer Week and he also gives seminars and lectures on the craft beer scene in British Columbia.
Joe has taught freelance writing at the University of Western Ontario and Douglas College (Print Futures program).
www.joewiebe.com / www.thirstywriter.com / www.craftbeerrevolution.ca
Publications:
Books (non-fiction):
Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries (Douglas & McIntyre 2013; revised edition 2015)
Tales from Brewery Creek (Anvil Press, forthcoming in 2015)
Fiction:
Sunlight + Coloured Glass‚ (short story) in Half in the Sun anthology (Ronsdale Press 2006)
Lost and Found‚ (short story) in Wreck anthology, UBC (2005) & Rhubarb magazine (2008)
Non-Fiction:
Apricot Platz (literary memoir) in Geist (December, 2004) & Rhubarb (October, 2005)
Annabel Lyon is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing program at UBC. She’s the author of seven works for adults and children. Her newest book is a forthcoming YA novel entitled Nora in Paris.
Publications:
Oxygen
The Best Thing for You
All-Season Edie
Encore Edie
The Golden Mean
Imagining Ancient Women
The Sweet Girl
Cathryn Morris graduated from the University of Central Florida summa cum laude and Honors in Film in 2001. In 2010, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from UBC in the non-residency program. From working in Canada’s Arctic to being politically evacuated from a small African dictatorship, Cathryn believes life experience and adventure are good prerequisites for being a writer. Cathryn focuses on writing for screen and television. She had success with her feature screenplay, Bleeding Kansas, which reached the top 30 of the Nicholl Fellowships in 2010, and works as a freelance Script Coordinator for various productions in the Lower Mainland. Presently, she is one of five writer-producer teams to have been chosen to develop her original television series, Fraud, with the National Screen Institute of Canada.
For more information about Cathryn see:
ca.linkedin.com/pub/cathryn-morris/b/2a9/73a/
Charles-Adam Foster-Simard grew up on the South Shore of Montréal and completed a BA in English Literature at McGill University. His essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Millions, The Puritan, Prairie Fire, and Grain.
Prize winning author of 4 novels and occasional journalist. Contributing editor to Numero Cinq Magazine; Past president of PEN Canada; Academic Coordinator and Instructor at the Chang School of Continuing Education, Writing Workshops Department, Ryerson University, Toronto; Freelance Editor.
Publications
4 Novels: A Certain Mr. Takahashi; The Instructor; Exile; The Blue Guitar
A Certain Mr Takahashi made into a feature film: The Pianist
Feature interviews of artists for Canadian Art Magazine
Jeffrey Ricker is the author of Detours (2011) and the YA fantasy The Unwanted (2014), both published by Bold Strokes Books. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction, A Family by Any Other Name, Men of the Mean Streets, and others. A 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow, he is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia.
Publications
Detours, 2011
The Unwanted, 2014
Monica Meneghetti is a multilingual language professional and writer with a penchant for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Her translation of Simone Moro’s adventure memoir,The Call of the Ice: Climbing 8000- Meter Peaks in Winter (Mountaineers Books), is the first-ever English edition among this renowned alpinist’s books. Monica’s poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and musical scores, as well on stage and online. She’s taught and mentored both youth and adults, offering custom- designed workshops at Fernie Writer’s Conference, Camp Fyrefly, and independently. As an editor, she has a special interest in enabling marginalized voices to be heard. She often attracts clients for whom English is a second language, due to her linguistic expertise. She holds a BA in French & Linguistics, and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia.
Publications
The Call of the Ice: Climbing 8000-meter Peaks in Winter by Simone Moro, Translated by Monica Meneghetti
Francine Cunningham is an Aboriginal writer, artist and educator originally from Calgary, Alberta but who currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Francine has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from The University of British Columbia. She also has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from UBC. She graduated from Keyano College in Fort McMurray, Alberta with a Visual and Performing Arts Diploma with conservatory style training in acting.
Francine received an award for a First Nations artist in 2015 from The First Peoples Cultural fund, was a participant in the 2014 Indigenous Writing Studio at the Banff Arts Centre and placed second in the 2014 Our Story: Aboriginal Arts and Stories contest. Francine’s work has appeared as part of the 2015 Active Fiction Project in Vancouver, in Hamilton Arts and Letters, Echolocation Magazine, The Quilliad Magazine, Kimiwan Magazine, nineteenquestion.ca and The Ubyssey.
Francine is currently running creative writing and visual art workshops with the aim of helping students express their unique ideas and feelings surrounding issues of identity.
She is also working on her second novel, a collection of short stories and an adult picture book.
Publications
2015 The Quilliad Magazine, issue six. The Places In-Between (Short Story)
2015 Echolocation Magazine, A selection of two poems.
2015 The Puritan, Summer issue. Pornorama. (Short story).
2015 Active Fiction Project Vancouver. A chose your own adventure story on the streets of Vancouver. Slips (Short Story)
2015 Issue Eight, Hamilton Arts and Letters. A selection of four poems.
2014 Second place, Our Story: Aboriginal Arts and Writing Challenge.