Fraser Nixon has lived in Paris, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. His most recent novel is Straight to the Head. His first novel, The Man Who Killed, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. ...

Michael Moon is the author of books on the body in Walt Whitman's poetry, imitation and initiation in American art and writing from Henry James to Andy Warhol, and the sources of the work of outsider ...

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 ...

Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, where he has directed the Studies in Sexualities Program since 2008. He is the author of many ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christian Gaudreault was the co-owner of Vancouver's Tomato Fresh Food Cafe with his wife Star Spilos. He spent his childhood in Quebec, where he grew up working in his family's restaurant. He has worked ...

Andy Quan is the author of four books: Calendar Boy, Slant, Bowling Pin Fire, and Six Positions, and the co-editor of the Arsenal Pulp Press anthology Swallowing Clouds with Jim Wong-Chu. He was born in ...

Larissa Lai is the author of four novels: The Lost Century, The Tiger Flu (Lambda Literary Award winner), Salt Fish Girl, and When Fox is a Thousand, and three poetry books, Sybil Unrest (with Rita Wong), ...

Shannon McFerran studied writing at the University of Victoria and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She has published short stories in numerous literary magazines ...