Authors

Loree Harrell

At 36, Loree Harrell dropped out of the corporate business world to dedicate her time to writing. She is currently working on two short story collections: Sex, Death and Other Odds & Ends and The Simplest Insanity. She lives in Oregon.

Bradley Harris

Bradley Harris writes about American life from the special position of a Canadian: alien, but able to “pass” among those whose language and culture he examines. Undergraduate and graduate education in arts, law, English, linguistics and creative writing, and a varied professional background in government, industry, the military and higher education, contribute to his perspective and style. He crawls like a viper through the suburban streets of Memphis, and lives with, and at the sufferance of, his wife Trish and urchins. He's the author of Incoming and other dramatic plays, short stories, and is at work on three other novels in the Jack Minyard series: Six Flags Over Jesus, The Midnight Clear, and Water Moccasin.

Oliver Hockenhull & Alex Mackenzie

Oliver Hockenhull has had critical essays published in many art magazines in Canada – such as C, POV, and Fuse. He is also a noted filmmaker and media artist whose works screen around the globe—from numerous Vancouver International Film Festival screenings to screenings at MOMA, Melbourne, Kerala, Rotterdam, Chicago, Amsterdam, Paris, etc.

Alex Mackenzie was founder and curator of both the Blinding Light Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He is past editor of Workprint, 250W and contributed to a variety of publications including Take One Magazine and various gallery and festival catalogues and imprints. His media work has screened throughout Europe and North America. He is also an accomplished graphic designer, having worked with, among others, Infinity Features, the National Film Board of Canada, Tabata Productions, Omni Film, and a broad range of film publicity and music CD packaging concerns.

Barbara Hodgson

Barbara Hodgson is a book designer and author. Her non-fiction works include: In the Arms of Morpheus: The Tragic History of Luadanum, Morphine and Patent Medicines—a fascinating yet unsettling account of medical opium in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—and Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon, an exquisitely designed book that perfectly evokes the insidious allure and devastating dangers of opium smoking.

Clint Hutzulak

Clint Hutzulak lives and works in Victoria, BC. He has a BA Honours in English and Creative Writing from the University of Victoria. Several of his short plays have been staged in Victoria. Selections from The Beautiful Dead End appeared in the anthologies Red Stains and Dust, from Creation Books of England. A soundtrack album to accompany the novel is available. The instrumental music features dobro, pedal steel, accordion and electronics, in solo and ensemble performances, commissioned from 20 musicians living in BC, Quebec, and Italy. For music samples and more information, visit www.ClintHutzulak.com.

Mark Jarman

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Fellow at Yaddo artists' colony in New York, Mark Jarman's work has appeared in virtually every Canadian literary journal out there. Publication credits include Queen's Quarterly, Prism International, subTerrain, Hawaii Review, Prairie Fire, and Quarterly West (Univ. of Utah). Other books include the memoir Ireland’s Eye, the short story collections Dancing Nightly In the Tavern (Alberta Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction), New Orleans is Sinking, and 19 Knives, and a collection of poetry, Killing The Swan. Mr. Jarman also edited a book of alcohol related stories, An Ounce Of Cure.

Jennica Harper

Jennica Harper was born in North Bay, Ontario and grew up in Brampton. She came to Vancouver in 2000 to earn her MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Her long poem “The Octopus” was shortlisted for a National Magazine Award, and her first collection of poetry, The Octopus and Other Poems, was published by Signature Editions in 2006. In 2007, her poem “Autumn Detail” was selected for the Poetry in Transit project. Jennica also works as a screenwriter, story editor, and instructor/writer at Vancouver Film School. She lives in the coolest building in Vancouver with her partner-in-all-things, Jeff.

Jim Oaten

The inaugural winner of subTerrain ‘s creative non-fiction award, Jim Oaten has had previous work published in Vancouver Magazine, Vancouver Review, the Vancouver Sun, Pacific Rim and Where. He has also won a National Magazine Award (Honourable Mention) and has been a Western Magazine Award finalist.

Currently a denizen of East Vancouver, he lives in fear of real estate prices.

Accelerated Paces is Jim Oaten’s first book.

John Belshaw & Diane Purvey

John Belshaw is a former professor of history at Thompson Rivers University and currently Associate Vice-President of Education at North Island College, Vancouver Island. Mr. Belshaw is the author of Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of The British Columbian Working Class, 1848-1900 (McGill-Queen’s University Press), winner of the Robert S. Kenny Prize for Marxist and Labour/Left Studies. Also forth-coming is Becoming British Columbia: A Population History (UBC Press).

Diane Purvey is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education and the Department of Philosophy, History and Politics at Thompson Rivers University. Research interests include the history of roadside shrines and other deathscapes in BC, history of child and family welfare in BC, and restorative justice practices in elementary schools. She co-edited Child and Family Welfare in British Columbia: A History (Detselig Press), with Chris Walmsley.

Brian Kaufman

Brian Kaufman has worked for years in the Vancouver art scene as a playwright, editor, and publisher. He founded the internationally known literary magazine subTerrain.

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