Authors

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.

Todd Klinck

Todd Klinck is a writer, film artist, former sex-trade worker, and co-owner of Mayhem North, an adult video company. His regular column “Trade” ran for three-and-a-half years in fab magazine, and he has been the subject of feature articles in Xtra, Advocate, Now, the Toronto Star, and The Globe & Mail. Todd also appeared on Showcase’s alternative lifestyle program, Kink. He co-authored the screenplay for the Genie-nominated feature film, Sugar and is currently working on an as-yet-untitled screenplay based on Tacones and a second novel, Us Whores. He lives in Toronto.

Ryan Knighton

Ryan Knighton's most recent book is Cockeyed: A Memoir (Penguin Books, 2006). He is also the co-author of Cars with George Bowering (Coach House, 2002). His journalism and satirical essays have appeared in such magazines as Utne and Saturday Night, and in such newspapers as The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, and The Montreal Gazette. He is presently undertaking a documentary film with director Scott Smith (Falling Angels) called As Slow As Possible. It involves a pipe organ and over six hundred years of hope.

Annette Lapointe

Annette Lapointe was born in Saskatoon on the coldest day of 1978 to hippy-type people who made their own granola and organic baby food. The family's pursuit of pastoral bliss led Annette to be schooled mostly in a small, scary town outside the city, for which her parents have since apologized. She did her BA at the University of Saskatchewan, and her MA at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the U of S. After achieving Masterhood, she taught ESL in South Korea and women's studies at the U of S. Recently, she wandered back to South Korea and thence to Winnipeg, to pursue doctoral studies in English. She currently divides her time between Saskatoon and Winnipeg, with the result that most of her time is actually spent on the road.

Eve Lazarus

Eve Lazarus has worked as a freelance journalist and writer for more than 15 years. Originally from Australia, she is the Vancouver correspondent for Marketing Magazine and the author of Frommer’s with Kids Vancouver 2001 (John Wiley & Sons). She is a former newspaper reporter and has written for a variety of periodicals in Canada and the United States including the Globe & Mail, the Vancouver Sun, Style at Home, B.C. Business and Canadian Family magazines. In 2001, she won gold and silver awards at the Canadian Business Press KRW's. Lazarus has a communications degree from Simon Fraser University and a journalism diploma from Langara College. Since becoming obsessed with home histories, she has written articles on the subject for Style at Home; REM; the Globe & Mail, and Nuvo Magazine. Eve lives in North Vancouver with her husband, three kids and miniature Schnauzer.

Mark Leiren-Young

Mark Leiren-Young is a popular Canadian performer, playwright and journalist. His plays have been produced throughout Canada and his award-winning drama, the romantic fantasy Blueprints from Space received a staged reading at New York's Open Eye Theatre. Mark's first radio drama, Dim Sum Diaries, received international attention when it debuted on CBC's Morningside in 1991. Mark's humorous commentaries have appeared in such publications as The Hollywood Reporter, The Toronto Star, The Vancouver Sun, and The Georgia Straight. His writing has also appeared in The Utne Reader, TV Guide, This Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and the South China Morning Post. Leirin-Young has two plays published by Anvil Press: Shylock and Articles of Faith.

Jodi Lundgren

A past winner of the Open Space Emerging Writers' Competition and a finalist in Paragraph's Short Fiction Contest, Jodi Lundgren has published in literary magazines such as Trivia, Paragraph and subTerrain, as well as in the anthology Beyond Bedlam. Her critical writing has appeared in Canadian Literature, Matrix and Essays on Canadian Writing. She is currently working on a novel for young adults.

Steve Lundin

Steve Lundin grew up playing goal in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the author of two short story collections, A Ruin of Feathers and Revolvo and other Canadian Tales, and the novel This River Awakens, and is a past winner of the Three-Day Novel Contest (Stolen Voices, Anvil Press). After a brief stint in England, where he earned international acclaim for his Malazan Book of the Fallen series under the name Steven Erikson, he returned to his hometown with his wife and son to launch the novel When She's Gone. They now reside in Victoria, BC.

Steve Lundin & Mitchell Parry

Steve Lundin grew up playing goal in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the author of two short story collections, A Ruin of Feathers and Revolvo and other Canadian Tales, and the novel This River Awakens, and is a past winner of the Three-Day Novel Contest (Stolen Voices, Anvil Press). After a brief stint in England, where he earned international acclaim for his Malazan Book of the Fallen series under the name Steven Erikson, he returned to his hometown with his wife and son to launch the novel When She's Gone. They now reside in Victoria, BC.

Mitchell Parry's poetry has appeared in Grain, Event, Pottersfield Portfolio, and The Malahat Review. In 2002, he won first prize in The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron poetry contest. He lives on Pender Island, BC, and teaches film studies at the University of Victoria. Publications include: Tacoma Narrows (Goose Lane Editions, 2006) and Vacant Rooms, a novella (Anvil Press, 1994).

Judy MacInnes Jr.

Judy MacInnes Jr. was born in Prince George, BC in 1970. Raised in Surrey, a graduate of Kwantlen College, the University of Victoria (BFA), and the University of British Columbia (MFA), Judy has worked in the film industry since 1994. Her writing has been anthologized in Northwest Edge: New Writing from the Pacific Northwest (Two Girls), Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets (Harbour), Eye Wuz Here: Women Writers Under Thirty (Douglas & McIntyre), In the Trenches (Anvil, forthcoming), and has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including Other Voices, Room of One's Own, CV2, Geist, Prism International, Blood & Aphorisms, The Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, and subTerrain. She lives in Vancouver with screenwriter Andrew McEvoy.

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