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 on invasive species management issues, environmental policy, and effective environmental communication strategies to different professional organizations and government agencies. In Medicine Wheel for the Planet, […]
Q&A 2024
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 Lawrence Press, 2020); and winner of the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award and 2021 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. They are also a performing member […]
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 is a member of Da’naxda’xw First Nation and lives in Surrey, B.C. From first bra to first hot flashes, the essays in Halfway Home re-consider […]
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 of her own creative studio, Breathing Space Creative through which she’s launched theThrive Coaching Program where busy creatives can learn how personal development creates the […]
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 a French immersion teacher, School Principal, Director of a curriculum center, Executive Director of Education and International Affairs at the Assembly of First Nations, and […]
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 Poultry Collective, as well as the bestselling Alice series. A third book about Helen Thorpe, Contemplation of a Crime, will be out in 2025. In […]
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 awards. Of Settler and Indigenous heritage, she lives on the traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ people with her husband and their German shepherd. In Shamus […]
Q&A with Leanne Dunic
Leanne Dunic transgresses genres and form to produce projects such as One and Half of You (Talonbooks, 2021), To Love the Coming End (Book*hug/Chin Music Press, 2017), and The Gift (Book*hug, 2019). In Wet, a transient Chinese American model working in Singapore thirsts for the unattainable: labour rights, the extinguishing of forest fires, breathable air, healthy habitats for animals, human connection. In […]
Q&A with Dylan Clark
Dylan Clark was born in Victoria, British Columbia, on the unceded lands of the WSÁNEĆ, T’Sou-ke, Klallam and Lek’wungen peoples. He studied writing and history at UVic and is currently studying Community planning at UBC. He has worked various jobs as a bookstore clerk, farmhand, and sailmaker. In addition, he volunteered during his undergraduate studies […]
Q&A with Yeji Y. Ham
Yeji Y. Ham is a Korean-Canadian writer. She received her BA in creative writing from UBC and MFA in literary arts from Brown University. Her works have appeared in Shorts (Platypus Press), Wilderness Journal, Rivet Journal, The Broome Street Review, and No Tokens. The Invisible Hotel is her first novel. A stunning debut novel of […]
Q&A with Scott Alexander Howard
Scott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused on the relationship between memory, emotion, and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel. Connect with him at ScottAlexanderHoward.com. The Other Valley follows the story of Odile Ozanne, […]
Q&A with Sarah Cox
Sarah Cox is an award-winning journalist for The Narwhal whose work focuses on environmental issues. Her book Breaching the Peace won a BC Book Prize and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. She lives in Victoria, B.C. In her new book Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction, Sarah […]