Tara Gereaux
Tara Gereaux’s first book, a teen novella called Size of a Fist was nominated for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her writing has been published in several literary magazines and has won awards, including the City of Regina Writing Award in 2016 and 2019. Tara worked as a story editor and writer in film and television for ten years. Tara lived in Vancouver for nearly two decades before returning to her home on the prairie. Her debut novel, Saltus, is forthcoming from Nightwood Editions in spring, 2021.
Vanessa Compton
Drawn to rural environments where landscapes are vast and people are few, Vanessa grew up in northern Vermont where her singer-songwriter father and artist mother inspired her to create from an early age. For many years Vanessa maintained a life of migration, creating art throughout the American West . She lives in Burlington, VT with her family.
Diana Chabros
In 2012, Diana Chabros relocated from Regina to Val Marie, a village in deep southwest Saskatchewan at the cusp of Grasslands National Park. Moved by the power of the land - its subtle energy, palette, geology, and sentience as a biological living entity - Diana documents, through paint, her dialogue with the area’s rich mix of cultures, stories, and sentient beings. An adjunct to her own professional art practice, Diana serves as a consultant/manager for her busy life partner, a senior interdisciplinary artist and nêhiyaw/Cree knowledge keeper, Joseph Naytowhow from Treaty Six. She also delivers Nature in Me© Intuitive Painting Retreats, cares for many Val Marie cats, and and operates a small bed & breakfast.
Joseph Naytowhow
Joseph Naytowhow is a gifted Plains/Woodland Cree (nehiyaw) singer/songwriter, storyteller, and voice, stage and film actor from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation Band in Saskatchewan. As a child, Joseph was influenced by his grandfather’s traditional and ceremonial chants as well as the sounds of the fiddle and guitar. Today he is renowned for his unique style of Cree/English storytelling, combined with original contemporary music and traditional First Nations drum and rattle songs.