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Among Kathy Stinson‘s 40+ books are the classic Red Is Best, the award-winning The Man with the Violin, and three biographies about outstanding women. She has enjoyed meeting with readers, always dressed, in every province and territory of Canada, the US, Britain, Liberia, Korea, and will soon in the UAE.  Big and small, short and tall, young […]

Jess Housty (‘Cúagilákv) is a parent, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk and mixed settler ancestry. They serve their community as an herbalist and land-based educator. They are inspired and guided by relationships with their homelands, their extended family and their non-human kin. They live in Bella Bella, BC. Rooted in the territory and resilient, […]

Christy Jordan-Fenton is the author of four award-winning books about her Inuvialuk mother Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s time attending an Indian Residential School in the high Arctic during the 1940s. Though Margaret passed in 2021, with her blessing Christy has continued to share her story in trauma-informed and strengths-based ways. When eight-year-old Olemaun leaves her home […]

Natalie Virginia Lang is a writer and teacher who has written several book reviews for The BC Review and has won multiple awards from Simon Fraser University for her work in the Graduate Liberal Studies department.  She lives on Sumas Mountain and is ardently dedicated to the preservation of natural spaces.  Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller offers a […]

Katłįà Lafferty is Dene, Cree, French and American from the Northwest Territories, and a current UVic law student. She is the author of the memoir, Northern Wildflower, and two novels: Land-Water-Sky, about Dene legends in modern times, and This House is Not a Home, about the northern housing system. She wrote them for her community, and they came to […]

Susan Sanford Blades Susan Sanford Blades’ debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the 2021 ReLit Award in the novel category and was a finalist for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has most recently been published in Gulf Coast, The Malahat Review, and The Master’s Review. Susan will be showcasing […]

Paul Dhillon (he/him) is a second-generation newcomer to Canada. He lives on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, where he is a high school English teacher. His work has appeared in multiple literary journals and has been finalist for a National Magazine Award.  Interview by Nikki Hillman Nikki Hillman […]

Sonnet L’Abbé is a Canadian poet, performer, editor, and professor. They are the author of A Strange Relief, Killarnoe, Anima Canadensis and Sonnet’s Shakespeare. They teach Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University, and are a poetry editor at Brick Books. They had their first solo performance of songs and poems at Nanaimo’s Port Theatre in 2021.  Sonnet will be […]

Chelene Knight is an award-winning Vancouver-based writer whose recent works have explored carved-out pasts across the city. She is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Her work has […]

Alessandra Naccarato was born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto). Her debut poetry collection, Re-Origin of Species, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and named a Best Book of 2019 by CBC Books. Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene Imminent Domains  invites readers to join a contemplation of […]

Joseph Dandurand is a storyteller, poet, playwright and member of Kwantlen First Nation located on the Fraser River. He is the director of the Kwantlen Cultural Centre and has authored several books of poetry. His poetry collection, The East Side of It All, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and in 2021, Dandurand received […]

Ali Blythe is the author of three books exploring trans-poetics: the debut collection Twoism, the follow-up Hymnswitch, and the forthcoming Stedfast, all with Gooselane-Icehouse. His award-winning work has been called intelligent, charming, jangly, jarring, moody, dreamy and a little bit deadly. He lives in Quadra Village. Interviewed by Barbara Pelman Barbara Pelman (BP): This is a work in progress, I understand. […]