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Kat Cameron

Kat Cameron was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick and has worked as an ESL teacher in Japan, a substitute teacher, and an editorial assistant. Her poems and short stories have appeared in literary journals across Canada, including CV2, Descant, The Fiddlehead, FreeFall, Grain, Literary Review of Canada, Room, Prairie Fire, PRISM International, and subTerrain. She teaches English and writing at Concordia University College in Edmonton and is currently working on a poetry manuscript, "Lighting over Wyoming," with the assistance of an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant.

Strange Labyrinth

Adrian Chamberlain

Adrian Chamberlain is an award-winning arts writer for the Victoria Times Colonist, the daily newspaper in Victoria, B.C.. Raised on Gabriola Island, he has a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Victoria and a master of arts degree in journalism from the University of Victoria.
He has won three B.C. Newspaper Awards for arts writing. In 2005 his short story, Temple Baptist, 1973, was a winner in Monday Magazine’s summer fiction contest.

Adventures with Ollie

Kim Clark

Kim Clark is a Nanaimo author, poet and playwright. Clark has published short fiction—Attemptations (Caitlin Press 2012)—and poetry—Middle Child of Summer (Leaf Press 2014), Sit You Waiting (Caitlin Press 2013) and Dis ease ad De sire, the M anu S cript (Lipstick Press 2012). She’s been a finalist in Theatre BC’s Playwrights Competition, has a novella optioned for a feature-length film and her darkly comic A One-Handed Novel arrives in 2017 via Caitlin Press.

Canadian Ginger

Pepper (Barbara) Couëlle-Sterling

Pepper (Barbara) Couëlle-Sterling divides her time between living in a log home in the Canadian Rockies with her partner and dog, Apollo, and sailing in the Caribbean sea on their sailboat. Her childhood influence of an artist father and graduate degrees in Art History from the University of Toronto have set the stage for a love of fine art and teaching.
Secrets of the Painted Door is her first book.

Secrets of the Painted Door

The Cloak of Golden Symbols

Adriana A. Davies

ADRIANA (ALBI) DAVIES is a well-known researcher, writer, editor and poet. She was the Executive Director of the Alberta Museums Association for thirteen years and Executive Director of the Heritage Community Foundation for ten years. Under her leadership, the Foundation created the Alberta Online Encyclopedia comprising 84 multi-media websites, which were gifted to the University of Alberta in 2009. She is the author of From Realism to Abstraction: The Art of J. B. Taylor (2014, University of Calgary Press) and co-editor of The Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta and the First World War (to be published by the University of Calgary Press in 2016). Dr. Davies was invested in the Order of Canada, in 2010 for her contributions to heritage. In 2015, she was awarded a knighthood (Cavaliere d’Italia) by the Government of Italy for her contributions to the preservation of the Italian language and culture, and her research and publications on Italian immigration to Canada.

The Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello

The Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello in the Crowsnest Pass Herald

Edmonton author uncovers story of 'Alberta's Al Capone'

Alberta Views reviews The Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello