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.
Sandra Lynn Lynxleg was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1961. She is a status member of the Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve No. 4 in Manitoba. Her father is of Scottish-Irish heritage and her mother is Saulteaux (Ojibwe-Cree). Sandra has been married for thirty-one years and has three grown daughters. She holds a B.Ed. degree through UBC’s Native Indian Teacher Education Program (NITEP) and a Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing through UBC’s optional-residency program. She currently resides in Vernon BC. Sandra has been published in a variety of publications.
 For more information visit her on Canadian League of Poets: http://poets.ca/members_data/sandralynnlynxleg
Kelly S Thompson is an award-winning writer and editor and a former Captain in the Canadian Forces. She has a degree in Professional Writing from York University, a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and a certificate in Publishing from Ryerson University. She was the President of the Professional Writers Association Vancouver Chapter for three years and is a current member in Ontario. Kelly has been published in Chatelaine, The, Georgia Straight, and more. Her essay “We Are A Military Family” was published in an anthology with Heritage House Press and won the Barbara Novak Award for Personal Essay in 2013. This essay appeared in, Embedded on the Home Front, which also won a 2012 CBC Bookie Award. She was shortlisted for Room Magazine’s Creative Non Fiction Award in both 2013 and 2014. Her essay “Strip, Reveal and Sex Appeal” appeared in Caitlin Press’s Boobs: Women explore what it means to have breasts, and won the 2017 Barbara Novak Award for Personal Essay. Her fiction piece, “Fluidity” won the House of Anansi Press Golden Anniversary Award and was published as its own ebook.
She is represented by Stephanie Sinclair of Transatlantic Literary Agency.
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Publications:
“Basically Broken” in Everyday Heroes, Simon & Schuster Canada, October, 2017 (forthcoming)
“Fluidity,” ¬†House of Anansi Press, February 2017
“Strip, Reveal and Sex Appeal”- Part of an Anthology, Boobs: Women discuss what it means to have breasts, 2016, Caitlin Press
“We Are a (Military) Family”- Part of an Anthology, Embedded on the Home Front, Where Military and Civilian Lives Converge, 2012, Heritage House Press
“They Don’t Always Come Home,” 555 Collective, What is War?