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Lorna Crozier’s books have won the Governal General’s, the Canadian Authors’ Association, and two Pat Lowther Awards for poetry. She has published fourteen collections, the most recent The Blue Hour of the Day. She has received two honourary doctorates for her contribution to Canadian literature, her poems have been translated into several languages, and she has read her work in every continent except Antarctica. A collection of essays, Small Beneath the Sky, was published by Greystone Books in 2009. In the same year a Spanish translation of her poems, La Perspectiva del Gato was published by Trilce Ediciones in Mexico City. Presently she is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria.

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Oxford University Press published Patrick Lane’s Poems, New and Selected, which won him the Governor General’s award in 1978. He has been a writer-in-residence and/or teacher at a number of institutions, including Concordia University, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, University of Saskatchewan, University of Victoria and York University.  He won the CAA Award for poetry in l988 for his Selected Poems, published by Oxford. Winter and Mortal Remains were both nominated for the Governor-General’s Award.  He is the recipient of The Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. His memoir, There Is A Season, won the inaugural BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, and his novel Red Dog Red Dog, was listed for the Giller Prize. He has published twenty-six books in the past fifty years. Patrick Lane makes his home outside Victoria, BC.

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Sachiko Murakami's first collection of poems, The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008), was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She holds an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University. New poems can be found in print at West Coast Line and online at Forget. She has worked for Matrix, Room, Event and The Capilano Review, and is a past member of Vancouver's Kootenay School of Writing collective. Recently moved from Vancouver, she now lives in Toronto.


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