Rajni Perera is a Sri Lankan-born artist whose internationally showcased work floats between Western and immigrant culture. She lives in Toronto.

Mark Forsythe has been the host of CBC Radio One's "B.C. Almanac" since 1996. He has hosted morning and afternoon shows throughout B.C., including Kelowna and Prince Rupert. He lives in Vancouver.

John Mikhail Asfour was the author of five volumes of poetry in English, the
most recent of which was Blindfold (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011). He passed away in 2014.

John Vigna's first book of fiction, Bull Head, was published to critical acclaim in North America by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2012, and in France by Editions Albin Michel in 2017. It was selected by Quill ...

Elee Kraljii Gardiner founded and directs Thursdays Writing Collective. She is the editor and publisher of seven anthologies from the Collective and the co-editor with John Asfour of V6A: Writing from ...

Neil is a painter whose works have been exhibited and collected internationally. A past winner of the VIVA Award for British Columbia artists, he lives in Vancouver.

Merida Anderson is the author of Vegan Secret Supper (2013). She is an accomplished artist, musician, fashion designer, ceramicist, and vegan chef who runs the blog vegansecretsupper.com. Anderson has ...

James Martin is a columnist for Calgary's FFWD Weekly and a freelance writer on the side. Until last year he was a true-blue Calgarian. He's since moved to Montreal where he is learning how to eat bagels. ...

Nick Comilla was born on a military base turned ghost town in Rome, NY, and grew up in rural Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Concordia University in Montreal, and completed ...