Ann Y. K. Choi is a Toronto-based author and educator. Her novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of […]
Q&A 2025
Q&A with PP Wong
PP Wong is a Vancouver-based author and screenwriter. Her novel The Life of a Banana was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Wong completed an MFA at the University of British […]
Q&A with Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel wrote his first novel at age 14 and is now a multi-award-winning bestselling author. His books include the Silverwing trilogy, which has sold over a million copies around the world, […]
Q&A with Madeleine Thien
Madeline Thien’s last novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Folio Prize and won the Governor General’s Literary Award […]
Q&A with Uma Krishnaswami
Uma Krishnaswami is the author of many books for children, and is faculty emerita in the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. […]
Q&A with Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton is an internationally recognized writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Compton lives in Victoria and teaches in the Department of Writing at UVic. Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics is […]
Q&A with Joseph Dandurand
Building on his legacy as a skilled storyteller, award-winning author Joseph Dandurand continues to write about trauma, love, grief and forgiveness in his latest poetry collection I Would Like to […]
Q&A with Brian Thomas Isaac
Brian Thomas Issac was born in 1950 on the Okanagan Indian Reserve near Vernon, BC. His first novel, All the Quiet Places won the 2022 Indigenous Voices Award, was a […]
Q&A with Giselle Vriesen
Giselle Vriesen (she/they) is an author living on Halalt First Nations land on Vancouver Island. Her debut YA fantasy novel Why We Play with Fire was released in February of 2024 through […]
Q&A with Elinor Florence
Elinor Florence grew up on a Saskatchewan farm and earned degrees in English and journalism. She is the author of three historical fiction novels, including her newest, Finding Flora. She […]
Q&A with Stephen Collis
Stephen Collis is the award-winning author of over a dozen books including The Commons (2008), On the Material (2010), and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018). He lives on unceded Coast […]
Q&A with Junie Désil
Junie Desil is a poet and writer living on the territories of the Homalco, Tla’amin, and Klahoose First Nations. Her debut collection, eat salt | gaze at the ocean (Talonbooks, 2020), was a […]