Fernandez, Lisa
Lisa Fernandez obtained her degree in Film Production at Ryerson University, before working as a camera assistant in the Toronto Film scene for a variety of documentaries, music videos, commercials, and feature films. However, her love of the mountains prevailed, and she moved out West where she was able to combine her filmmaking skills with […]
Endicott, Marina
Marina Endicott is the author of Good to a Fault, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Canada and the Caribbean, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; The Little Shadows, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; and Open Arms, which was shortlisted for the Amazon/Books in Canada First […]
Drabek, Jan
Jan Drabek was born in Prague. His father was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance activities, survived Auschwitz and spent the rest of the war hiding in an insane asylum. In 1948 his family escaped on skis from the newly Communist Czechoslovakia, eventually making their way to the United States where he finished his […]
Demers, Charles
Charles Demers is a Vancouver comedian, humourist and author, heralded by CBC Radio as ”Truly one of the smartest comics out there.” In addition to having performed in clubs and at festivals across the country, and as a regular guest on CBC’s The Debaters and This is That, he is the author of the books […]
De Mariaffi, Elisabeth
Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the Giller Prize-nominated author of one book of short stories, How To Get Along With Women (Invisible Publishing, 2012) and the new novel, The Devil You Know (HarperCollins, Canada; Simon & Schuster, USA 2015). Her poetry and short fiction have been widely published in magazines across Canada. In 2013, her story “Kiss Me Like I’m the Last Man on […]
Cull, Trisha
Trisha Cull is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MFA Creative Writing program. Her work has been published in Room of One’s Own, Descant, sub Terrain, Geist, The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review and PRISM. She was the winner of Lichen’s “Tracking a Serial Poet” contest in 2006, PRISM’s Communications Award for Literary […]
Collins, Amy
Amy Collins is a children’s book editor at Orca Book Publishers and specializes in board books, picturebooks, chapterbooks, middle grade and graphic novels. She completed her BA at Western University and her MA at UVic, with a focus on Victorian Literature. Amy currently lives with her partner in Sooke, BC, where she enjoys hiking, yoga and […]
Christmas, Jillian
Jillian Christmas was born and raised in Markham, Ontario. She currently lives in Vancouver, BC, where she serves as Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words. She has won Grand Poetry-Slam Championship titles at both the Vancouver BedRocc poetry-slam (2011), as well as the Vancouver Poetry Slam (2012, 2014). To date, Jillian has held spots on […]
Christie, Michael
Michael Christie’s debut collection of short stories, The Beggar’s Garden, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Prize for Fiction, and won the Vancouver Book Award. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Prior to his MFA, he was a sponsored skateboarder and travelled throughout the […]
Brooks, Carellin
Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks is the author of fresh hell: motherhood in pieces (2013), Every Inch a Woman (2011), and Wreck Beach (2007). Her latest book, a novel, is One Hundred Days of Rain (2015). She edited the anthologies Carnal Nation, with Brett Josef Grubisic, and Bad Jobs. Winner of the Books in Canada Student […]