In this Issue Elaine Alec is from the Syilx (Okanagan) Nation and Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation. A member of the Penticton Indian Band, she started her first business when she was twenty-one years old. Elaine has spent over twenty years in over a hundred communities across Canada to promote healing and wellness with Indigenous knowledge. She recently completed her first book, Calling My Spirit Back. Jacqueline Larson Carmichael is the author of Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories from the Western Front, 1914– 1918 (Heritage House, 11/03/2020). She is a journalist and editor whose work has appeared in the Edmonton Sun, the Dallas Morning News and Entrepreneur Magazine. Terry Ann Carter is the author of six collections of long form poetry, two haiku guidebooks, and five haiku chapbooks; and editor of four haiku anthologies. Haiku in Canada: History, Poetry, Memoir (Ekstasis Editions) and Moonflowers: Pioneering Women Haiku Poets in Canada (catkin press) were both published in 2020. Coming out soon from Jack Pine Press, Blue Moon: The Ono no Komachi Poems. www.terryanncarter.com. Ian Cognitō is a Van Isle poet who has worked as a language teacher, public speaking instructor, and child and youth care worker. Other incarnations have included theatrical clown, mask maker, contact dancer, and gadfly. Ian’s most recent poetic excursions include Animusings, Much Adieu about Nothing (w. Pat Smekal), and an anthology featuring 27 Canadian poets entitled Old Bones & Battered Book Ends. repartee@telus.net www.facebook.com/reparteepress. Jessica Cole is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. She writes fiction for adults and teens on Wattpad under the pen name Jess Wesley, where her romantic comedy, Girl Under Construction, is available for purchase. She lives in Smithers, BC. jesswesley.com.
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Chelsea Comeau is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Freefall, CV2, Room, subTerrain, and other Canadian literary magazines. Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Carolyn Daley served with the Vancouver Police Department for twenty-eight years. During her career she rose through the ranks to deputy chief constable and holds the distinction of being the first woman to do so. She is the author of Vancouver’s Women in Blue (Ruddy Duck Press, 2020). www.cjdaley.ca. Barb Drozdowich is an author and a technical trainer. She takes her decades of teaching experience and focuses it on the needs of authors and the rapidly evolving publishing world. Barb is the author of 30 books, many YouTube videos, several online courses and she blogs at Bakerview Consulting. She lives in the mountains of British Columbia with her family. Sara Graefe’s CNF has appeared in Literary Mama, Walk Myself Home, Boobs, and A Family By Any Other Name. She is editor of Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories (Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions). Sara teaches in the Creative Writing Program at UBC. Her blog Gay Girls Make Great Moms can be found at https://queermommy.wordpress.com. (saragraefe.com). Caitlin Hicks is an author, international playwright, and acclaimed performer in BC. Her work has been published on radio and in many periodicals. Her debut novel A Theory of Expanded Love (published in the US in 2015), won numerous awards including iBooks Best New Fiction. Just before the pandemic, she released a podcast called Some Kinda Woman! Stories of Us. www. caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/podcast. Christine Lowther is the author of Born Out of This, shortlisted for a BC Book Prize. Her poetry books are Half-Blood Poems, My Nature, and New Power. Chris gratefully received the inaugural Rainy Coast Arts Award
