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Q&A Peter Edwards and Kevin Loring

Peter Edwards is the organized-crime beat reporter for the Toronto Star and the bestselling author of seventeen non-fiction books. His works have been published in four languages. Edwards was awarded an eagle feather […]

Q&A with Carleigh Baker

Carleigh Baker is an nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân/Icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings, won the […]

Q&A with Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Shazia Hafiz Ramji’s poetry collection Port of Being won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and was a finalist for several other awards. Her short story “Selvon in Calgary” […]

Q&A with Maleea Acker

Maleea Acker lives on W̱SÁNEĆ territories. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Victoria and faculty at Thompson Rivers University. Her books include Hesitating Once to Feel Glory (poetry, Nightwood, 2022) and Gardens […]

Q&A with Mary Bomford

Mary Bomford taught secondary school English as a Cuso volunteer in Lundazi, Zambia from 1969 to 1972. Her memoir explores the transformative power of that experience. She attended the Banff […]

Q&A with Jennifer Grenz

Jennifer Grenz is a Nlaka’pamux Indigenous ecologist, scholar and Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management at UBC. She has traveled extensively across North America presenting keynote lectures […]

Q&A with Jody Chan

Jody Chan is a writer, drummer, organizer, and therapist based in Toronto/Tkaronto. They are the author of haunt (Damaged Goods Press, 2018), all our futures (PANK, 2020), and sick (Black […]

Q&A with Christina Myers

Christina Myers is a former journalist and the author of Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife (Anansi, 2024), and The List of Last Chances (Caitlin Press, 2021) which was longlisted for the Leacock Medal. She […]

Q&A with Chelene Knight

Chelene Knight Chelene Knight is the author of five books including Let It Go: Free Yourself From Old Beliefs and Find a New Path To Joy. She is the founder […]

Q&A with Darrel J. McLeod

Darrel J. McLeod was a Nehiyaw (Cree) from Northern Canada, Treaty 8. He published two memoirs, Mamaskatch and Peyakow, as well as a novel, A Season in Chezgh’un. McLeod was […]

Q&A with Susan Juby

Susan Juby is the award-winning, bestselling author of Mindful of Murder, which was nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour. She has also written Republic of Dirt, Getting the Girl, and The Woefield […]

Q&A with Leslie Gentile

Leslie Gentile’s debut novel Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer won the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize, the Jean Little First-Novel Award, and was shortlisted for nine other […]

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