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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
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Assistant Professor & Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Non-Fiction
location_onBuchanan E475
Research Area
NonfictionAlex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It was translated into eleven languages and is in devel...Read more
Research Area
Nonfiction
Alix Ohlin
emailalix.ohlin@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan E473
Alix Ohlin is the author of six books, most recently the novel Dual Citizens and the story collection We Want What We Want (2021). She has been a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, among others, and her work has appeared in Best Americ...Read more
Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon published her first book, Oxygen, a collection of stories, in 2000. The Best Thing for You, a collection of three novellas, followed in 2004. She has written two books for children, All Season Edie (2009) and Encore Edie (2010).
Her first novel, The Golden Mean, was published in 2009...Read more
Anosh Irani
emailanosh.irani@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan E468
Anosh Irani is a three-time Governor General’s Literary Award-shortlisted author and playwright, and a two-time winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. His novel, The Parcel, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,...Read more
Billy-Ray Belcourt
location_onBuchanan E461
Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Alberta and has been both a Rhodes Scholar and a PE Trudeau Foundation Scholar. He is the author of This Wound is a World (Frontenac House 2017), winner of the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Pri...Read more
Bronwen Tate
emailbronwen.tate@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan E456
Bronwen Tate is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore (Inlandia Institute 2021), National Winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, and a contributor to Midwinter Constellation (Black Lawrence Press 2022), a poetry collaboration. A citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Bronwen earned...Read more
Cecily Nicholson
location_onBuchanan E477
Research Area
PoetryCecily Nicholson is the author of four books and past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (2015) and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry (2018). She is the first honouree of the Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading award from the Poetry in Canada Society (2023) and 2024/2025 Hollo...Read more
Research Area
Poetry
Emily Pohl-Weary
Emily is the author of three novels, two collections of poetry, a biography, a series of girl pirate comics, and a podcast drama script. Her most recent books are the young adult novel Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl and the poetry collection Ghost Sick.
She has worked in many different positions wi...Read more
Frances Koncan
location_onBuchanan E471
Research Area
PlaywritingFrances Koncan is an Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright and theatre artist from Couchiching First Nation. They hold an MFA in Playwriting from the City University of New York Brooklyn College.
Productions of their work include Women of the Fur Trade (2023) at the Stratford Festival directed by Yv...Read more
Research Area
Playwriting
John Vigna
John Vigna’s (he, him, his) novel, No Man’s Land, was published in Fall 2021. His first book of fiction, Bull Head, was received with critical acclaim in Canada and the US in 2012 and published in France by Éditions Albin Michel in 2017. It was selected by Quill & Quire as an editor’s ...Read more
Research Area
Fiction
Keith Maillard
location_onBuchanan E167
Keith Maillard is the author of fifteen novels, a book of poetry, and two memoirs. Twelve of his titles have been shortlisted for or won literary prizes. Light in the Company of Women was a runner-up for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; Motet won that prize. Hazard Zones was short-listed for...Read more
ON LEAVE
July 2025
Linda Svendsen
location_onBuchanan E169
Linda’s novel, Sussex Drive, was published by Random House Canada in 2012 and was a CBC Bookie Awards nominee in the comedy category. Linda’s story collection, Marine Life, was published in Canada (HarperCollinsCanada), the U.S. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Germany (Residenz Verlag), and w...Read more
Maureen Medved
location_onBuchanan E178
Maureen Medved’s novel The Tracey Fragments was published by House of Anansi Press. Over the years, Maureen’s writing as well as adaptations of her work have been published in literary journals, magazines and produced for stage and screen. Maureen’s screen adaptation of The Tracey Fragments...Read more
Nalo Hopkinson
location_onBuchanan E164
Research Area
FictionNalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and spent the first 16 years of her life in Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and the US before her family moved to Canada. She writes science fiction and fantasy, exploring their potential for centering non-normative voices and experiences. Her first novel, Brown Girl in...Read more
Research Area
Fiction
Nancy Lee
emailnancy.lee@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan E463
Nancy Lee is the award-winning author of two works of fiction, Dead Girls and The Age, and a poetry collection, What Hurts Going Down (McClelland & Stewart, 2020). Her books have been published in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, and her work most recently appeared in P...Read more
Sarah Leavitt
Sarah Leavitt is a cartoonist and educator whose particular areas of interest include autobiographical comics, formal experimentation in comics, and comics pedagogy – developing strategies for teaching comics creation as well as exploring how comics creation shapes students’ work in other forms ...Read more
Research Area
Graphic Forms
Sharon McGowan
location_onBuchanan E162
Research Area
ScreenwritingSharon McGowan’s most recent film is the hour-long documentary Bearded Ladies: the Photography of Rosamond Norbury, which premiered at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival in 2015. This film was also produced by Peggy Thompson, the co-producer and writer of Better than Chocolate.
THE OLDEST BASKE...Read more
Research Area
Screenwriting
Timothy Taylor
location_onBuchanan E467
Timothy Taylor is a bestselling and award winning author of six book-length works of fiction and nonfiction. He emerged on the writing scene in 2000, when three of his short stories were selected for a single edition of the Journey Prize Anthology. His story Doves of Townsend won the Journey Priz...Read more
Whitney French
location_onBuchanan E474
Whitney French (she/her) is a writer, educator and publisher. She is the editor of the award-winning anthology Black Writers Matter (University of Regina, 2019) and Griot: Six Writers Sojourn into the Dark (Penguin Random House, 2022). Her novel-in-verse, Syncopation is forthcoming with Wolsa...Read more
Lecturers
A.E. Osworth
A.E. Osworth is a transgender novelist whose debut, WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT (Grand Central Publishing 2021) was long listed for The Center For Fiction First Novel Prize, The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and The Tournament of Books; it was a finalist for The Oregon Book Award. Their ...Read more
Research Area
Fiction
Jennifer Moss
Jen has spent nearly 20 years as a storyteller. Starting in theatre, she moved into print journalism, radio, and eventually became a new media writer and digital interactive producer. Her writing revolves primarily around arts, local issues, and character-driven stories. She has a strong track recor...Read more
Jordan Scott
Jordan Scott is a poet and children’s author. His debut children’s book, I Talk Like a River (illustrated by Sydney Smith), was a New York Times best Children’s Book of 2020. I Talk Like a River is translated into nineteen languages and was the recipient of the American Library Associati...Read more
Research Area
Writing for Children & Young Adults
Mallory Tater
emailmallory.tater@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan E466
Mallory Tater (she/her) is the author of the novel The Birth Yard (HarperCollins Canada 2020) and the poetry collection This Will Be Good (Book*Hug Press 2018) and Lockers are for Bearcats Only (Forthcoming, Palimpsest Press 2026). She was the recipient of CV2’s Foster Poetry Prize and is the pub...Read more
Mandy Catron
Mandy Len Catron is the author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays. The book was listed for the 2018 RCB Taylor Prize and the Kobo Emerging Writer Award. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Rumpus, Catapult, and The Walrus among...Read more
Research Area
Nonfiction
Ray Clark
Ray Clark is an independent game developer and a graduate of Creative Writing BFA and MFA programs at the University of British Columbia. They work primarily in story-driven video games, as well as in board game development, and their work is published on Steam and itch.io.
Research Area
Writing for Video Games
Sara Graefe
emailsara.graefe@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan E476
Sara Graefe is a playwright and screenwriter. She started her career in the trenches of Canadian theatre and is a three-time winner of the National Arts Centre’s Young Playwrights Search. Her plays, which include Sadly As I Tie My Shoes, Dreamspyre and Yellow on Thursdays, have been produced as...Read more
Sheryda Warrener
Sheryda Warrener is a poet, editor, and teacher, most recently the author of Floating is Everything. Her third collection, Test Piece, is forthcoming in Fall 2022 from Coach House Books. Her work can be found in literary journals across North America, and has been selected for Best Canadian Poetry, ...Read more
Research Area
Poetry
Susan Musgrave
Susan Musgrave has published more than 30 books and has received awards in six categories — poetry, novels, non-fiction, food writing, editing and books for children. Her home is near Masset on Haida Gwaii.
Recent awards include the B.C. Civil Liberties Association 50th Anniversary Award for co...Read more
Research Area
Poetry
Tanya Kyi
Tanya Kyi is the author of more than 30 picture books, novels, and information books for children and young adults. She often writes about science, history, pop culture, or a combination of the three. Her recent works include Me and Banksy, Mya’s Strategy to Save the World, and This Is Your Brai...Read more
Research Area
Writing for Youth
ON LEAVE
September to December 2024
Tariq Hussain
Tariq Hussain is a songwriter / recording artist, and a non-fiction writer living in Vancouver. He began his artistic career as a songwriter in his late twenties when he released his first album, Splat. Soon after, his subsequent album, The Basement Songs (1997) earned him a Juno nomination with ...Read more
Research Area
Songwriting
Taylor Brown-Evans
Taylor Brown-Evans is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist living in Vancouver. His work has appeared in Geist, Matrix, Poetry is Dead, The Feathertale Review, Ricepaper Magazine as well as alternative press zines, chapbooks. His most recent project, Songs for a Lost Pod, is a comicbook collaborati...Read more
Research Area
Graphic FormsSessional Instructors
Dina Del Bucchia
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Dina Del Bucchia is the author of the short-story collection Don’t Tell Me What to Do and of four collections of poetry: Coping with Emotions and Otters, Blind Items, Rom Com written with Daniel Zomparelli and It’s a Big Deal! She is a senior editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine, the artisti...Read more
Martin Kinch
Martin Kinch’s practice embraces film, theatre, television, opera, and radio. As a screenwriter, story editor, director and/or producer he has worked on over 50 produced screen and television projects.
Throughout his impressive career, spanning four decades and multiple Canadian cities, Martin ...Read more
Adjunct Professors
A.W. Hopkins
A.W. Hopkins is a member of the N’Quatqua First Nation. He is an award winning writer and director. He has a Bachelor of Arts with a Communications Major and an MFA in Creative Writing focusing on Writing For The Screen. A.W attended the Canadian Film Centre, Norman Jewison Directors’ Lab 2020. ...Read more
Research Area
Screenwriting
ON LEAVE
January 2025
Jules Arita Koostachin (Attawapiskat)
Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin (Attawapiskat) is an award-winning filmmaker, mother, writer, performance artist and academic. With her background in community work, social justice themes emerge in her films, alongside bravery, healing, connection and humour. Jules honours her Cree-speaking grandparents ...Read more
Michele McMahon
Research Area
Writing for TelevisionMichele McMahon has over 15 years’ experience producing award-winning Canadian television. For the past seven years she was a Production Executive for Bell Media where she was the executive on the drama series: Transplant (CTV, NBC, SKY), Cardinal (CTV, BBC2), 19-2 (BRAVO) and Motive (CT...Read more
Research Area
Writing for Television
Zac Hug
Research Area
Writing for TelevisionZac Hug is a television writer, playwright, essayist, and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (BFA, Acting) and of University of British Columbia (MFA, Creative Writing). Zac’s plays have been produced at the New York Fringe Festival, and the Williamstown Theater Festival workshop. H...Read more
Research Area
Writing for Television