Brian Brett, former chair of the Writers' Union of Canada and a journalist for four decades, is best known as a poet, memoir writer, and fictionist. He is the author of thirteen books including the poetry collection, The Colour Of Bones In A Stream, and the novel, Coyote: A Mystery. His memoir, Uproar’s Your Only Music, was a Globe and Mail’s Book Of The Year selection. His best-seller, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, won numerous prizes, including the Writers’ Trust annual award for best Canadian non-fiction book. To Your Scattered Bodies Go won the CBC poetry prize in 2011. A collection of poems and prose poems about an endangered watershed in the near-arctic, The Wind River Variations was published in 2014. In 2016 he published the third book of his memoir trilogy, the prize winning and widely reviewed, Tuco. He has also created with Ramesh Meyers and Susheela Dawne two acclaimed CDs, including their recent Talking Songs.
=0D=0A=Anita Anand is the author of Swing in the House and Other Stories, which won the Concordia-QWF First Book Prize in 2015, and was nominated for the Relit Award and the Prix de la diversité du Conseil des arts de Montréal. Her translation of the novel Nirliit by Juliana Léveillé-Trudel will be out in 2018. She is currently working on a new book of fiction.
=0D=0A=Janet Miller grew up on a farm in the Pemberton Valley surrounded by cows, horses, potato fields and all those relatives. An award winning fiction writer and author of the Young Adult book Cross My Heart, she writes about Mayan Ruins, ill-fated affairs, scruffy ponies, rats, fake pregnant bellies, hobby horse riding, boy-anphibians and violets who demand to be dug up. One of Janet`s writing mentors admired in particular the neurotic maelstorm of her fictional characters.She makes her home in Comox and spends time on Nova Scotia`s South Shore and in Mexico.
=0D=0A=Linda K. Thompson is writing from her tree house in Port Alberni. Her poem Botany for Beginners was shortlisted for the Malahat Review Far Horizons prize and she received Honourable Mention from the Troubadour International Poetry Prize out of London, England for her poem Gloria. Linda has studied with Patrick Lane since 2007 and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook, Four Small People in Sturdy Shoes, has left home for the big world and her full length manuscript, Down Through the Fields in the House, is out making the rounds.
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