Aaron Ash

Aaron Ash is the founder of Gorilla Food, an acclaimed organic, vegan, raw food restaurant in downtown Vancouver, Canada that will expand to new locations in the Lower Mainland in fall 2012. He was a ...

Bud Osborn

A poet and social activist, Bud Osborn's life and work represents the embodiment of the disenfranchised. As a former drug addict, he never thought he'd be alive today, let alone living a respectable life. ...

David N. Odhiambo

David N. Odhiambo is a novelist, poet, and playwright, and the author of two previous novels, Kipligat's Chance (St Martin's Press) and diss/ed banded nation (Polestar). Born in Nairobi, Kenya, he moved ...

Carys Cragg

Carys Cragg is an instructor in Child, Family & Community Studies at Douglas College. Her personal essays and reviews have appeared in such venues as The Globe & Mail and The Tyee. She is a graduate of ...

Cathleen With

Cathleen With is a graduate of the University of British Columbia MFA program in Creative Writing. She is the author of the story collection Skids (Arsenal, 2006) and the novel Having Faith in the Polar ...

David Chariandy

David Chariandy lives in Vancouver and teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. His novel Soucouyant has received great attention, including a Governor General's Literary Award ...

Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote is the award-winning author, co-author or co-editor of eleven books, including Tomboy Survival Guide, shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize and an American Library ...

Ashley Little

Ashley Little's Anatomy of a Girl Gang won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes), was shortlisted for the Vancouver Book Award, and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her follow-up ...

Leanne Prain

Leanne Prain helps communities connect through creative ideas. A writer, speaker and certified design professional, her previous books include Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti (with Mandy ...

Star Spilos

Star Spilos was the co-owner of Vancouver's Tomato Fresh Food Cafe with her husband Christian Gaudreault. Her lifelong interest in food and in baking began by watching her mother create desserts. A graduate ...