FERTIG, MONA

MONA FERTIG is a poet, editor, publisher, and book artist, and runs Mother Tongue Publishing on Salt Spring Island, and is ranked Top Publisher in Canada in TWUC’s Publishers’ Report Card. Founder and Director of Canada’s first literary centre, The Literary Storefront, 1978-1985, the VPL made Fertig a Literary Landmark. Founding member of the Federation of BC Writers, BC Book Prizes, the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets; she has also been BC Rep of the Writers’ Union of Canada, P.E.N. Canada; and is an ACP and LPG member. Her most recent books are The Unsettled and The Life and Art of George Fertig.