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.
Beryl Young
Beryl Young writes novels, picture books and biographies for children of all ages. She has an upcoming picture book biography of Tommy Douglas. Among her many award nominations she has won the Chocolate Lily Best Book Award, the Silver Moonbeam medal (US) and the Reader's Choice Award at the Rainforest of Reading.
Katherin Edwards
Katherin Edwards, former maid, gardener, floral designer and racehorse groom is now currently employed as a home support worker. A two-time winner at Eden Mills for poetry, her work has been published in The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review and ARC poetry magazine. Katherin’s nonfiction can be found in the anthology “In the Together” and in 2016, she was longlisted for CBC’s short fiction contest for “The Sound of his Fall.” She has also won the Malahat Review’s Far Horizon Award for fiction. She lives in Kamloops, B.C.
Bettina Matzkuhn
Bettina Matzkuhn learned to embroider as a child. She uses thread and fabric to explore stories about nature, geography and memory. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts and an MA in Liberal Studies from Simon Fraser University. Her work is exhibited across Canada and internationally, and held in public and private collections. She writes professionally on the arts, lectures, teaches and volunteers.
Matthew Hughes
Matthew (Matt) Hughes writes fantasy, space opera, and crime fiction. He has sold 23 novels to publishers large and small in the UK, US, and Canada, as well as 90 works of short fiction to professional markets. He has won the Endeavour and Arthur Ellis Awards, and has been shortlisted for the Aurora, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, Endeavour (twice), A.E. Van Vogt, Neffy, and Derringer Awards. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s Hall of Fame.
andrea bennett
andrea bennett is a National Magazine Award–winning writer and editor and the author of two travel guides, one book of poetry, and, most recently, the essay collection Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary (Arsenal Pulp Press), a CBC Books’ pick for the top Canadian nonfiction of the year, and one of Autostraddle’s best queer books of 2020.