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.

Robin Fisher is a comic activist, a girlfriend, a cat owner, a radio dj, a friend, a writer, an occasional student, and a voracious reader. She lives in Vancouver.

Paul Yee was born in Saskatchewan but grew up in Vancouver's Chinatown. He is the author of nearly thirty books, including the Governor General's Award-winning Ghost Train as well as Saltwater City: An ...

Melanie O'Brian is currently Director of Simon Fraser University Galleries in Vancouver and Burnaby. She was formerly Curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, Director/Curator at ...

The Calgary Herald interviews musician and artist Rae Spoon about their latest book, the young-adult novel Green Glass Ghosts.

Wayde Compton is the author of two books of poetry, 49th Parallel Psalm (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist) and Performance Bond. He also edited the anthology Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature ...

Attila Richard Lukacs was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1962. A graduate of Vancouver's Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, he was a member of the renowned "Young Romantics" art group in the 1980s. He ...

Cindy Patton is a longtime activist and scholar who has written extensively about social and political dimensions of the AIDS epidemic. She is currently Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University ...

Jesse Proudfoot is a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University's Department of Geography, and a resident and specialist on the urban geography of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. He contributed ...

David Watmough was born in London, England in 1926. He was the author of several novels and short-story collections, including The Time of the Kingfishers and Hunting With Diana, Thy Mother's Glass, and ...