Shirlee Smith Matheson

by | Aug 19, 2020 | Author

Shirlee Smith Matheson is the author of numerous books on Canadian aviation, including Volumes I, II, and III of Flying the Frontiers; A Western Welcome to the World – The History of Calgary International Airport, and Maverick in the Sky – The Aerial Adventures of WWI...

Ven Begamudré

by | Aug 19, 2020 | Author

Ven Begamudré was born in South India and moved to Canada when he was six. He has also lived in Mauritius and the United States. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He has been...

Diane Buchanan

by | Aug 18, 2020 | Author

Diane Buchanan is a poet and essayist who has lived in and around Edmonton, Alberta all her life. The last thirty years have been spent on a thoroughbred horse farm where she and her husband of forty-three years raised four daughters. She began to write after retiring...

Patria Rivera

by | Aug 18, 2020 | Author

Patria Rivera is a Toronto poet and editor. Her first poetry collection, Puti/White, launched in 2005, was shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Patria won an honourable mention in the 1997 ARC National Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Contest and...

J. Fisher

by | Aug 18, 2020 | Author

J. Fisher was born in Edson, has lived and worked in Victoria’s downtown core and is now in Calgary. His first short story “for what it’s worth” was published when he was 19. He spent his early 20s as a wildly unsuccessful blues singer and lyricist. His love of the...

Lisa Pasold

by | Aug 18, 2020 | Author

Lisa Pasold’s first book of poetry, Weave, was hailed as a masterpiece by Geist magazine. Her second book of poetry, A Bad Year for Journalists, was nominated for an Alberta Book Award. Her 2009 novel, Rats of Las Vegas, was described as “enticing as the lit-up Las...