Darrin Hagen
June 2021
Hagen has created over 40 plays, some of which have toured across Canada, and produced in the U.S. and Europe. His focus is LGBTQ history, uncovering hidden histories through extensive research, combining archives, evidence and eyewitness accounts with imagined scenes to tell stories of injustice against the LGBTQ population.
Andrea Olive
Andrea was born and raised in Regina and is now an associate professor of political science and geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is the author of two books: The Canadian Environment in Political Context and Land, Legitimacy and Stewardship: Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States. She has a forthcoming manuscript on the history of wildlife policy in Saskatchewan. Her main area of interest is wildlife conservation, especially species at risk in Saskatchewan. She is also an avid long-distance runner and enjoys hiking, swimming, and listening to birds.
Ann Ward
Ann Ward is a writer, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared most recently in Pinwheel Journal, Peach Mag, No Tokens, This Magazine, Minola Review, and Powder Keg. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Ann has an MFA in Fiction from UMass Amherst and teaches at Bard Microcollege Holyoke, a college for women whose education has been interrupted by pregnancy, parenting, and systemic issues.
Dawna Rose
Dawna Rose uses a wide variety of media and materials in her artwork. She is currently concentrating on painting in oils and gouache. She has published two graphic books and a super 8 animation film. One of the books Smoking With My Mother won an Alcuin Society National Book award. The sculpture The Perfect Deck was featured in the Little Worlds exhibition at the Dunlop Gallery in Regina and the Mendel Gallery in Saskatoon. Dawna completed an MFA at the University of Saskatchewan. Dawna Rose lives and works in Saskatoon.
Gerald Hill
Gerald Hill published his 7th poetry collection, Crooked at the Far End, in 2020. He created a launch in the form of a series of videos to accompany poems from the book. The first of these, Invocation, is set at the Stegner House. A two-time winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry, he was Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan in 2016.
Edie Marshall
Edie Marshall is a Saskatchewan painter who is interested in the environment, the history and culture of the land. Most of her work is about the prairies where she finds an unlimited and often overlooked source of colours and shapes, ideas and images. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in private collections. She has served on the CARFAC Saskatchewan and National Boards, the board of directors for the Art Gallery of Regina and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Edie currently lives in Riverhurst, Saskatchewan.
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.
Anne Heeney
Anne Heeney attended Sir George Williams University (Montreal) Fine Arts in 1971-'72, and enrolled also in Fine Arts at the University of Victoria from 2006 to 2008.. When the animation industry digitized at the end of the millennium, she retired to a full-time private studio practice first in Moose Jaw and subsequently in Victoria. Her paintings have been shown at the Mendel, the MacKenzie, and are in the permanent collection of the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery. Wolf Willow is a secular kind of scripture.
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.
Donald Wright
Donald Wright is a historian at the University of New Brunswick. Broadly interested in Canadian intellectual, cultural, and political history, he is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books. He is currently writing a book about Canadian historian Ramsay Cook (1931-2016) who was born in Alameda, Saskatchewan.