I first met Vicky Fang in early 2017. We were beginner writers at our very first Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference in Pacific Grove, California, each looking for someone to befriend, so […]
Liesl Lafferty has always been a storyteller. It’s been fun having a front row seat to her craft for the last twenty-five years. As the youngest of five, she would put on shows for her […]
Junie Désil is my partner and my best friend. She has committed herself to three values that shape her life and work: fairness, kindness, and thoroughness. From the time she was a child, she would […]
My husband, Bill Koch, grew up in rural Montana. As a child, he was preoccupied with books and ball sports. He dreamed of a career in writing and edited his high school newspaper. However, working […]
I first met Léa Taranto at UBC in 2014 when we took an undergraduate workshop together in fiction. We bonded immediately over our shared Sino-diaspora heritage and love of speculative fiction. Since then, over the […]
I met Tom Wayman in the early 1980s when he was teaching English and writing at David Thompson University Centre in Nelson. DTUC (1979-84), a joint venture between UVic and Selkirk College, was the provincial […]
One of my earliest recollections of Ruby Smith Díaz is of chatting on Commercial Drive over a decade ago and noticing her latest art piece rolled up and sticking, too long, out of the basket […]
Having known Jen Currin for more than 10 years, most of that time as their partner, I see every day that writing, being a writer, is just an essential part of Jen as a person. Not […]
Niloufar-Lily Soltani is a writer, literature lover, fitness enthusiast, and supply chain expert living in Vancouver. I first met Lily over 20 years ago when a mutual friend invited me to meet “one of the […]
For the past 30 years, Leslie Hurtig has occupied various positions within the Canadian literary landscape. She has served as a sales representative, publicist, rights manager, and book buyer for some of North America’s leading […]
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