GUNN, GENNI
GENNI GUNN, author, musician and translator, has published eleven previous books: three novels — Solitaria, Tracing Iris (which was made into the film The Riverbank) and Thrice Upon A Time, two story collections – Hungers and On The Road, two poetry collections — Faceless and Mating In Captivity, a collection of personal essays – Tracks: […]
GOOD, MICHELLE
MICHELLE GOOD is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years and advocating for residential school survivors, she obtained a law degree. She earned her MFA in creative writing at UBC while still practicing law. Her poems, short stories and essays have […]
GERNES, ULRIKKA S.
ULRIKKA S. GERNES was born in 1965 in Sweden of Danish parents. At the age of twenty-two she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, already a published and highly acclaimed poet. Her first collection, Natsværmer (Moth), was published in Denmark in 1984, when she was eighteen years old. Since then she has published an additional ten collections, all […]
GABEREAU, VICKI
VICKI GABEREAU is a Canadian radio and television personality, best known for her longtime association with CBC Radio and her television talk show which aired on CTV from 1997 to 2005. In 1985, she became host of Gabereau, a two-hour daily interview show on CBC Radio. She was one of the CBC’s most popular and beloved hosts until her departure in 1997, when she moved […]
FRIESEN, PATRICK
PATRICK FRIESEN has published more than a dozen books of poetry, a book of essays, has written stage and radio plays, and has co-translated, with Per Brask, five books of Danish poetry, including Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments by Ulrikka Gernes, which was nominated for the Griffin Award in 2016. In January 2020, […]
ENDICOTT, MARINA
MARINA ENDICOTT’s novel Good to a Fault won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Canada and the Caribbean, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her next, The Little Shadows, was short-listed for the Governor General’s award and long-listed for the Giller Prize, as was her last book, Close to Hugh. Endicott […]
DAVIS, WADE
WADE DAVIS is a writer and photographer whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of […]
DASHTGARD, ANNAHID
ANNAHID DASHTGARD is the co-founder of Anima Leadership, a consulting company specializing in issues of diversity and inclusion. Previously she was a leader in the anti-corporate globalization movement, responsible for several national political campaigns and frequently referred to as one of the top activists to watch in the 1990s. She is the author of Breaking […]
COOK, EILEEN
EILEEN COOK is a multi-published author with her novels appearing in eight languages. Her books have been optioned for film and TV. She spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer. She’s an instructor/mentor with The Creative Academy and Simon Fraser University […]
CHRISTMAS, JILLIAN
JILLIAN CHRISTMAS is a queer, afro-caribbean writer living on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam people (Vancouver, BC.) where she served for six years as Artistic Director of Versəs Festival of Words. She has won numerous Grand Poetry-Slam Championship titles and represented Toronto and Vancouver at 11 national poetry festivals, notably breaking […]