Authors

Derek von Essen

Derek von Essen is a photographer, painter, graphic designer, video and mixed-media artist. He specializes in fine arts, dance, theatre, music, film and publishing projects. During the 1980s, von Essen photo-documented the underground music scene in a style the Vancouver Westender called, “confrontational, kinetic and the result of a keen eye for the perfect moment”. Through the 90s to present day, von Essen’s art and photography has been exhibited in numerous galleries and can be found in permanent collections across North America and Europe. He was honoured by the BC Business and Arts Awards and profiled on CBC television. His installation series, Horizons + Intersections (photography and video projection, 2004-2007) exhibited in multiple cities, with screenings across Canada, China, Italy and at various international art festivals. The photography for A Verse Map of Vancouver was created with a myriad of cameras: vintage mediumformat Japanese TLRs and German folding cameras, 35mm SLRs and rangefinders and a high resolution digital SLR.
To see more of Derek’s work, visit www.derekvonessen.com

Alexandra Leggat

Alexandra Leggat is the author of two previous collections of short fiction, Pull Gently, Tear Here (nominated for the Danuta Gleed First Fiction Award), Meet Me in the Parking Lot, and a volume of poetry entitled This is me since yesterday. As well as being a freelance writer and editor, she teaches creative writing classes through the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and lives in Toronto.

Tammy Armstrong

Tammy Armstrong grew up in St. Stephen, New Brunswick and lived in Vancouver, BC for several years, where she earned a BA and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. She currently lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Armstrong has two books of poetry published with Anvil Press: Unravel and Bogman’s Music (a Governor General’s Literary Award nominee). Her poems have appeared in the following publications: The Antigonish Review, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prairie Fire, Room of One’s Own, subTerrain, TickleAce, and Zygote. “A Proper Burial for Song Birds” placed third in the League of Canadian Poets’ National Poetry Contest, Vintage 2000. “If In a Marriage to a Car Salesman” and “Clam Bake 1974” were performed on International Women’s Day 2000 at the National Art Gallery.

Michael Barnholden

Michael Barnholden is associate director of Humanities 101 at the University of British Columbia and the author of several books of poetry and non-fiction, most recently, Reading the Riot Act (Anvil 2005). A Vancouver resident since 1970, Michael works as an advocate with the B.C. Coalition of People with Disbilities.

Catherine Bennett

Catherine Bennett is a Vancouver writer, whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Grain, subTerrain, Tessera, and Mirage/Period(ical). She won first prize in the 1991 Short Grain Contest (Postcard Story Category). For many years, she was a member of the Kootenay School of Writing Collective. She holds a BA in creative writing and an MA in English literature. Currently, she makes her living as a freelance editor.

Dennis E. Bolen

Since his first highly-acclaimed 1991 novel, Stupid Crimes (Anvil Press), Dennis E. Bolen has written three other novels: Stand In Hell, Krekshuns, and Toy Gun (Anvil Press). He is also the author of the short story collection Gas Tank & Other Stories (Anvil Press). He has worked as a parole officer in Vancouver and has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia. For many years Mr. Bolen held the post of fiction editor for the literary journal subTerrain, contributing editor to the Vancouver Review, and has acted as a columnist and part-time editorial board member at the Vancouver Sun.

Bonnie Bowman

Bonnie Bowman has worked as a writer for several years, contributing articles and reviews for a variety of regional and national publications. Also an accomplished songwriter, Bonnie has worked both solo and in collaboration with other musicians.

Geoffrey Bromhead

Geoffrey Bromhead was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1979. He currently studies English literature and creative writing at the University of Calgary. Struck is his first published novel.

Grant Buday

Grant Buday is the author of four novels: Rootbound, White Lung (Anvil Press), Under Glass, The Venetian, and A Sack of Teeth. White Lung was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Prize, as was his last collection of stories, Monday Night Man (Anvil Press). The Green Gold Rush, a screenplay based on the marijuana industry in BC, was a co-winner of the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters spring 1998 screenplay development workshop.

Clint Burnham

Clint Burnham’s most recent book is a new novel from Arsenal Pulp Press, Smokeshow. Burnham is also the author of The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory, Fatal Femmes: the poetry of Lynne Crosbie, two collections of poetry, Be Labour Reading and Buddyland, and numerous chapbooks. A new book of poetry is forthcoming from Anvil Press in 2007. Clint has served on the editorial collective of Fuse magazine, was a contributing editor for Paragraph, and is currently on the editorial collective of Boo.

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