Cove, Rodger

COVE, RODGER has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has been teaching story and screenwriting for 18 years. His own work includes Hair of the Sasquatch (Calgary International Film Festival, 2008), and The Patio, (the Grand Junction International Film Festival in Colorado, and the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, both in 2014). He […]

Williams, Jenny D.

WILLIAMS, JENNY D. has lived and worked in the U.S., Germany, and Uganda. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and a BA from UC Berkeley. Her award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and illustrations have been published or are forthcoming in The Sun Magazine, Vela, Ethical Traveler, and Michigan Quarterly Review as well as several anthologies. A […]

Watada, Terry

WATADA, TERRY is a poet (with four published titles), a playwright (with seven plays produced), a short story writer (with a published collection), a children’s book writer (two titles), a historian (two titles), and writer of two manga. He has also edited several anthologies. His first novel, The Blood of Foxes, was published in 2007. He […]

Ulrich, Shari

ULRICH, SHARI’s 40 year career, from Pied Pumkin through The Hometown Band, and on as a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist has lead to 24 albums including her collaboration with Bill Henderson and Roy Forbes (UHF) Barney Bentall & Tom Taylor (BTU), and the bluegrass band The High Bar Gang. Her work has garnered 2 Juno […]

Taylor, Drew Hayden

TAYLOR, DREW HAYDEN is an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario and an award-winning playwright, journalist, short-story writer, novelist, commentator, script-writer and documentarian. As a writer/creator, he strives to educate and inform about issues that interfere with, reflect on and celebrate the lives of Canada’s First Nations. With around 30 books to […]

Sutherland, Suzanne

SUTHERLAND, SUZANNE is the Children’s and YA Editor at Harper Collins Publishers in Canada, where she has worked with internationally bestselling authors such as Kenneth Oppel, Emma Donoghue, Dennis Lee and Kit Pearson. She is also the author of three novels for teens, including her most recent, Under the Dusty Moon.

Some Assembly Required

Comprising musicians from Whistler and Vancouver, SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED plays ska, reggae, blues and gypsy jazz with a healthy mix of originals and covers. Stephen Vogler, guitar, mandolin, vocals; Geeta Das, trumpet, saxophone, vocals; Tony Moser, bass; and Dean Feser, percussion.

Smith, Alisa

SMITH, ALISA is an award-winning journalist and author. Her bestselling first book, The 100- Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating (Vintage Canada, 2009), won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, the Canadian Culinary Book Award and the American Cordon d’Or Award of Literary Merit. She has contributed to many publications including Canadian Geographic, Explore and the […]

Showler, Suzannah

SHOWLER, SUZANNAH first book, Failure to Thrive (2014), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award and named one of the best books of the year by the National Post. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in places such as Slate, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Hazlitt. She is a […]

Saunders, Doug

SAUNDERS, DOUG is a Canadian author and journalist. He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World and The Myth of the Muslim Tide, and is the international affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail. He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having […]