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.
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.
An exploration of the earth’s last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future.
On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana wonders whether he will reach Europe alive, and whether he will be allowed to stay. In the North Atlantic, a young chef disappears from a cruise ship, leaving a mystery for his friends and family to solve. A water-squatting community battles eviction from a harbour in British Columbia, raising the question of who owns the water.
The Imperilled Ocean by Laura Trethewey is a deeply reported work of narrative journalism that follows people as they head out to sea. What they discover holds inspiring and dire implications for the life of the ocean — and for all of us back on land. Battles are fought, fortunes made, lives lost, and the ocean approaches an uncertain future. Behind this human drama, the ocean is growing ever more unstable, threatening to upend life on land.
