Neil Griffin is a poet, essayist, and former wildlife biologist. A former finalist for CBC’s Poetry Prize and two Alberta Magazine Awards, his writing has appeared throughout Canada, and Western […]
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Q&A with Danielle Geller
Danielle Geller is a writer of personal essays and memoir. Her first book, Dog Flowers, was published by One World/Random House in 2021. She received her MFA in creative writing for nonfiction […]
Q&A with Hasan Namir
Hasan Namir is an Iraqi-Canadian author. He is the author of three previous books: God in Pink, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction, War/Torn, recipient of […]
Q&A with Sarah Desai
Sara Desai has been a lawyer, radio DJ, marathon runner, historian, bouncer and librarian. She lives on Vancouver Island with her family and an assortment of forest creatures who think […]
Q&A with Emily Riddle
Emily Riddle is nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation in Treaty 6. Her nonfiction and poetry appears in publications across Canada, including the Globe and Mail, Canadian […]
Q&A with André Alexis
Born in Trinidad, André Alexis is a Canadian writer based in Toronto. Starting with his debut novel, Childhood, Alexis has been the recipient and nominee of numerous awards, including the […]
Q&A with Brandi Bird
Brandi Bird is a Two-Spirit Saulteaux, Cree and Metis writer/editor from Treaty 1 territory currently living and learning on Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam land. Their work has been published in The […]
Q&A with Mark Jarman
Mark Anthony Jarman’s new book Czech Techno is a gorgeous collection of short stories—both for the stories themselves and also for the graphic design they are enhanced by. This is […]
Q&A with Téa Mutonji
Born in Congo-Kinshasa, Téa Mutonji now lives and writes in Scarborough, Ontario. She was selected as emerging writer of the year (2017) by the Ontario Book Publishers Organization. Mutonji’s collection of linked […]
Q & A with Isabella Wang
Isabella Wang has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry, Minola Review’s Poetry Contest, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal […]
Q&A with Linda K. Thompson
Here are the details about Linda K. Thompson: born and raised on a potato and cattle farm in the Pemberton Valley and now lives in Port Alberni, where she been […]
Q&A with Andrea Actis
Andrea Actis was born in Toronto but for most of her life has lived in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She teaches writing […]