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Jordan Abel is a First Nations writer whose work has been published in Grain, CV2 and Canadian Literature. He is a contributing editor for Geist and a former editor for PRISM international. His first book collection of poetry is forthcoming from Talonbooks. Visit him at jordanabel.ca |
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Joanne Arnott is a Metis/mixed-blood writer, originally from Winnipeg, living on the west coast since 1982. She has published six books including a collection of short creative nonfiction, Breasting the Waves: On Writing Healing, a children's book on natural childbirth illustrated by Mary Anne Barkhouse, Ma MacDonald, and four books of poetry, including Steepy Mountain love poetry and Mother Time/Poems New & Selected. Mother to six young people, all born at home, she is involved in aboriginal arts community organizing, with a special interest in supporting the words/works of aboriginal mothers and grandmothers. |
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Mercedes Eng is a writer and teacher in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories. Her work has appeared in The Enpipe Line (Creekstone Press, 2012), Memewar, Canada and Beyond, and West Coast Line. Her first book, Mercenary English, is forthcoming in 2012 from CUE. |
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Hiromi Goto is the award-winning author of many books for youth and adults. Her adult novel, Chorus of Mushrooms was the recipient of the regional Commonwealth Writer's Prize Award for best first book as well as co-winner of the Japan-Canada Book Award. Her second adult novel, The Kappa Child, was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Award. More recently her YA novel, Half World, was winner of the 2010 Sunburst Award and the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and was long-listed for the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award. Her latest YA publication, companion book to Half World, is Darkest Light. |
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Daniel Heath Justice is a Colorado-born Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Raised in the small Rocky Mountain mining town of Victor, Colorado, he spent ten years in Ontario before moving with his husband and their two dogs to Vancouver, where he is associate professor of First Nations Studies and English at UBC. Co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (with James H. Cox), Daniel is the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, the Indigenous epic fantasy, The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles, and numerous essays and stories. He is currently at work on a cultural history of badgers, a study of critical kinship in Indigenous literatures, and a new dark fantasy series, The Ruins of the Phoenix War. |
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Fiona Tinwei Lam is the author of two books of poetry, Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Prize) and Enter the Chrysanthemum, which both explore themes of family and loss. She is a co-editor of and contributor to the non-fiction anthology, Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen's, 2008). Her work has been published in literary magazines Canada-wide, broadcast on CBC, and appeared in over sixteen anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2010. She is the editor of The Bright Well, a collection of contemporary Canadian poems about facing cancer published last fall with Leaf Press. Her children's book, The Rainbow Rocket, is forthcoming with Oolichan Books in 2013. She is a regular contributor to the Tyee online news magazine. |
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Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people (Victoria, British Columbia) since 1994. Janet works in the genres of poetry, short fiction, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poems with music and script writing. |
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Rita Wong is the author of three books of poetry: sybil unrest (co-written with Larissa Lai, Line Books, 2008), forage (Nightwood 2007), and monkeypuzzle (Press Gang 1998). forage won Canada Reads Poetry 2011. Wong has received the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. |
