Miriam Koerner, Writer
January 2026
Miriam Körner is an award winning and critically acclaimed children’s book illustrator, writer, and environmental advocate who lives with her nine sled dogs in a small cabin in northern Saskatchewan. Her most recent picture book Fox and Bear is a “love letter to nature disguised as a modern fable of ecological grief and hope” (The Marginalian).
Chris Petrakos, Historian, Writer, Photographer
May 2026
Christopher Petrakos is a historian and Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto Mississauga whose research focuses on missionaries, Protestant theology, and empire in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American far North. His forthcoming book, The Spiritual Borderlands at the Edge of Empire, examines William and Charlotte Bompas and their relationships with Northern Indigenous communities, the federal government, and the raucous mining population from the Alaska Purchase and Canadian Confederation (1867) to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1900). A Chicago native who became a Canadian citizen, Petrakos has conducted extensive archival research across Canada, Great Britain, and the United States to tell a fascinating story of the North American borderlands.
Heather Inglis, Multidisciplinary Artist and Director
November 2026
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Heather is an award-winning director, producer, and dramaturg whose career has taken her across the country. Heather has directed and assistant directed over 40 productions, many of which have been new Canadian works