Terrie Hamazaki (she/her) holds a Master of Arts Degree in Creative and Critical Writing (UK). She performed her plays at the Fringe and Women in View Performing Arts Festivals. Her writing has appeared in Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories (Caitlin Press…

Patti-Kay Hamilton writes, paddles, skis,coaches and hunts on the lands of the NWT Metis Nation and Salt River First Nations. Home is Fort Smith in the heart of Wood Buffalo National Park where the Slave River rapids rumble even in the winter and whooping cranes soar overhead in…

Jane Silcott’s first collection of essays, Everything Rustles, published with Anvil Press, was a finalist in the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize in the 2014 BC Book Prizes. She is co-editor, with Fiona Tinwei Lam, of the anthology Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs,…

Sylvia D. Hamilton is an award-winning Nova Scotian artist known for the documentaries Portia White: Think on Me, The Little Black School House, Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia, and Black Mother Black Daughter, among others. Her 2014 poetry collection, And I…

Jo Hammond.Born a stone’s throw from the English Channel in Bognor Regis, Jo Hammond’s first job was as a dairy farmer. After studying Music and Science in a Liverpool teacher’s college, she became a secondary and elementary school teacher, also a member of the Royal Liverpool…

Coming from generations of English blue water sailors, Heather Harbord arrived in Canada in 1963. She lived in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia before returning to British Columbia in 1977. She now makes her home in Powell River, B.C. in a house overlooking three…

Kim Harbridge (she/her) is a writer and editor of speculative, scary, and otherwise strange fiction. Her writing has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Pulp Literature, AE Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. When she's not writing and…

At different times, an author, playwright, broadcaster, critic, arts commentator, economic historian, newspaper columnist, grassroots activist, public advocate, consultant, democratic socialist politician, and muckraker, Herschel Hardin brings his lively iconoclastic style to…

I am an award-winning (The Journey Prize, Canadian Authors Association Silver Jubilee Award)  writer whose work has appeared in eight anthologies, including twice in both Best American Short Stories and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and once in Best Canadian Short…

Born in 1923, northern British Columbia. Bomber pilot, WWII. BA, 1948, UBC; MFA, 1950, University of Iowa. Fourteen years with the CBC in Vancouver as producer, station manager, and director of radio, BC region. Twenty-four years with the Department of Creative Writing at UBC,…

Liz Harmer is Strange Loops (2023) and The Amateurs (2018), both released with Knopf Canada. The Amateurs was shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in 2019. Also in 2019, she was the runner-up in the The Image/Mitchell Prize for a suite of poems. In 2018, her story…

A self-professed “senior nomad” (she says some would suggest “crazy person”), Canadian writer Sue Harper spent 18 back-to-back winters in Kelowna, British Columbia and her adopted hometown, Wanaka, New Zealand, traveling as much as possible in between. Now she's back in the…

It was that special year: 1967 when the city of Montreal exploded onto the world’s stage and hosted Expo ‘67.  My high school graduation from Westover School happened at that same time. My parents and I drove from Connecticut to Montreal stopping along the way at the admissions…

Sheila is the author of Voices for the Islands, Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea, published by Heritage House July, 2024. It has been on the BC bestseller list all summer. She was co-author and co-editor of the award winning, Islands in the Salish Sea,…

Carla Harris (they/she) is a disabled queer writer, performer and interdisciplinary artist from Treaty 4 territory, living in Regina Saskatchewan. They have performed in Verses Festival in Vancouver (2016), the Saskatoon Poetic Arts Festival (2018), and featured on their home…

After a career in science and business, I returned to my childhood love of writing. As an avid reader of crime fiction, I naturally chose this genre. Like many new writers, I had my share of rejections as well as wonderful writing teachers and encouragement. My breakthrough came…

Trevor W. Harrison is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. He was formerly Director of Parkland Institute (2011-2021), an Alberta-wide research organization, of which he was also a founding member. He was the recipient of the University of…

Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann is an editor and writer. Her work reflects her roots as a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian with German ancestry and explores meaningful coincidences, cultural memories and identity. She is the author of a children’s book, My Father’s Nose and lives…