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Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, Métis,and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Her bestselling debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and readers alike. Helen Knott returns with a chronicle of grief, love, and legacy. When Helen loses her mother and grandmother, she must navigate fine lines between […]

Jennifer Manuel is a writer based in Vancouver Island. Her previous work, The Heaviness of Things that Float./won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She is an activist on Indigenous issues and was previously an elementary and high school teacher in the lands of the Tahltan, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Cowichan peoples. The Morning Bell Brings the Broken […]

Nikki Reimer is a multimedia artist and writer and chronically ill neurodivergent prairie settler currently living in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. They are the author of four books of poetry and multiple essays on grief. They launched GRIEFWAVE.com in February 2022, a multimedia, web-based extended elegy. No Town Called We is a meditation on emergency and grief of […]

Robin Stevenson is the author of thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for kids and teens. Her book My Body My Choice: The Fight for Abortion Rights won the BC Book Prizes Sheila A. Egoff award, and her book Pride won a Stonewall Honor. She lives in Victoria. Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle celebrates the […]

Lorna Crozier is the author of more than twenty-five books and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada as one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets.  In, After That, a soul-stirring collection of poems—Lorna Crozier finds the words to engage with the grief that comes from the death of her partner. Interview by Barbara Pelman Barbara Pelman […]

Samantha Nock is a Cree-Métis writer/poet from the BC Peace Region in Treaty 8 Territory. Her family is originally from Ile-a-la-Crosse, SK in Treaty 10 Territory. She currently resides on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her debut poetry book, A Family of Dreamers, was released this fall.   Samantha Nock’s debut […]

Susan Mockler is a disabled writer living in Kingston, Ontario. Her stories and essays have been published in magazines across Canada and the U.S. Fractured: A Memoir is her first book. In Fractured: A Memoir, Susan Mockler’s physical and psychological journey after a car accident left her partially paralyzed is an illuminating look at healthcare, ableism, and Susan’s acceptance […]

Russel Thornton’s The Hundred Lives was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. His Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and Dorothy Livesay Prize. Other collections include The Broken Face andAnswer to Blue. His new book isThe White Light of Tomorrow (Harbour Publishing, 2023). The White Light of Tomorrow showcases intense lyricism and a distinctive imagination. The pieces here enact […]

Renee Sarojini Saklikar’s books include the award-winning Children of Air India and Listening to the Bees. She was poet laureate for the City of Surrey and is co-founder and curator of Lunch Poems at SFU. Her epic fantasy in verse includes Bramah and the Beggar Boy and Bramah’s Quest (2023). The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns, THOT J BAP, an epic fantasy in […]

Jenn Ashton is an Award-winning Sḵwx̱wú7mesh author, artist, and filmmaker. She reads History at Oxford University and is an Authenticity Reader for Penguin/Random House USA. Previously a teaching assistant in Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio, she has just completed a two-year term as Writer in Residence at BC History Magazine. People Like Frank: And Other […]

Angela Sterritt is an award-winning journalist, writer and artist. Sterritt has worked as a journalist for twenty years and with CBC since 2003 – as a host and multi-media reporter. She is a proud member of the Gitxsan Nation and lives on Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories, Vancouver. In this blend of investigative journalism and memoir, the […]

Tyler Pennock is a Two-Spirit adoptee from a Cree and Métis family around the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They are a Toronto based writer with an MFA from Guelph University’s Creative Writing program. Their first poetry collection, Bones, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert […]