ANITA ANAND is a Montreal author and translator. Her collection of short stories entitled Swing in the House won the 2015 QWF Concordia University First Book Award and was nominated for a couple of others. Her novel, A Convergence of Solitudes was a finalist in 2022 for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and […]

WAUBGESHIG RICE grew up in Wasauksing First Nation on the shores of Georgian Bay, in the southeast of Robinson-Huron Treaty territory. He’s a writer, listener, speaker, language learner, and a martial artist, holding a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. After working for nearly two decades as a journalist, mostly for CBC, and writing fiction in […]

MAUREEN MAYHEW is a family doctor, a clinical professor at UBC, and a certified leadership coach. She graduated from Hudson High School (’78) and then from McGill in ’86 and has spent three decades providing primary care and leading public health programs across Canada, Asia and Africa. She currently works for the BC Physician Health […]