Andrew George Jr.

Andrew George Jr. is a member of the Wet'suwet'en Nation in British Columbia. He participated on the first all-Native team at the Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt, Germany, and was head chef at the Four ...

Serge Guilbaut

Serge Guilbaut is a retired professor of art history at the University of British Columbia. His books include How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art (University of Chicago Press, 1983). He contributed ...

Jean Smith

Jean Smith is the singer and lyricist in Mecca Normal, whose first album was released in 1986. Their tenth album, the Family Swan was released by Kill Rock Stars. As a solo artist, Jean has also released ...

Patrick Roscoe

Patrick Roscoe was born on the Spanish island of Formentera. He is the author of seven previous novels and short-story collections published between 1990 and 2001. His widely published and anthologized ...

Michael Turner

Michael Turner's first book, Company Town, was nominated for the 1992 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His second book, the novel Hard Core Logo, was made into an acclaimed feature film, for which Michael ...

D.M. Fraser

D.M. Fraser (1947-85) was born in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, grew up in Glace Bay, NS, and spent his adult life in Vancouver. He was the author of two acclaimed story collections, Class Warfare and The ...

Billeh Nickerson

Born in Halifax and raised in Langley, BC, Billeh Nickerson is the author of the poetry collections The Asthmatic Glassblower, McPoems, Impact: The Titanic Poems, and his most recent, Artificial Cherry ...

Carmen Rodriguez

Carmen Rodríguez was born and raised in Chile. A political and social activist, she and her family became threatened as the chaos surrounding the 1973 military coup escalated. With the assistance of ...

Rae Spoon

Rae Spoon is a non-binary musician, producer, and author from Treaty 7 (Calgary) living on Lekwungen territory (Victoria). Rae is the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist First Spring Grass Fire ...

James C. Johnstone

In addition to editing three volumes of Quickies and co-editing two volumes of Queer View Mirror with Karen X. Tulchinsky, James C. Johnstone's writing has been published in the Lambda Literary Award-winning ...