Anne Birthistle's work previously published in The Carnegie Newsletter.
Erling Friis-Baastad′s poetry collections include The Exile House (Salmon Publishing, Ireland) and Wood Spoken: New and Selected Poems (Northbound Press/Harbour Publishing, British Columbia.). Most recently, his essays have appeared in Wild Moments: Adventures With Animals of the North (University of Alaska Press) and The New Quarterly. He works as an editor with the Yukon News.
Miche Genest is a writer with an exquisite palate. She is the author of The Boreal Gourmet: Adventures in Northern Cooking (Harbour Publishing) and the editor of the Urban Coyote anthologies.
Eric Heyne has taught in the English Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 1986. He has published poems in Ice Floe, Alaska Quarterly, Platte Valley Review, and elsewhere, as well as essays on narrative theory and American literature, and edited two special literary issues of The Northern Review.
Jennifer Kingsley was born and raised in Ottawa and has spent the last 10 years working in Alberta, British Columbia and in the Arctic as a conservationist, naturalist and wilderness guide. She is a MFA candidate at the University of Victoria, and her latest project concerns wilderness, belonging and a 54-day canoe journey across Nunavut.
Joanna Lilley sometimes worries that her master’s degree in creative writing and her diploma in plain language editing will one day cancel each other out. In the meantime, she keeps herself busy writing stories and poems by night and government communications materials by day. Joanna’s work has been published in a range of literary journals and anthologies.
Deb Liggett is an essayist and poet living in Anchorage, Alaska. Her work has appeared in Pilgrimage, Cirque, the 2008 anthology 50 Poems for Alaska, and in a multi-media art installation, My Alaska, Too, in the CenterPoint West lobby in Anchorage.
Clea Roberts lives in Whitehorse, Yukon on the Takhini River. Her poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Dalhousie Review, The International Feminist Journal of Politics, Lake: A Journal of Arts and the Environment, The Malahat Review, Prism International, and Room. Roberts has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Centre, the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, and is a three-time recipient of the Yukon Government Advanced Artist Award. Her work has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and her poem, “When We Begin to Grow Old,” won the After Al Purdy Poetry Contest. Clea co-organizes the Whitehorse Poetry Festival.
Michael Reynolds lives in Whitehorse, with his wife Jenny and their two children. His poems have won the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and the John Haines Award for Poetry. He was also a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 2005, the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award in 2006 and The Malahat Review Long Poem Contest in 2007. His work was anthologized in The Best of Canadian Poetry in English 2008. Michael’s first book, Slant Room, was published in 2009 by Porcupine’s Quill.
Meg Walker is an interdisciplinary visual artist and writer who lived coast to coast across southern Canada before moving to Dawson. Her first introduction to the town was doing an artist residency there in winter, which may be part of why she likes Yukon winters best. Meg′s writing has been published widely (FRONT magazine, Globe and Mail, fillingStation, Yukon News); a recent highlight in her emerging visual art career was making melting ice works for the show Flux in Prince George. This year, alongside teaching at the Yukon College, Meg is keeping a creative blog about ice in art, nature, science and culture, a topic beautifully facilitated by her northern location.
Christine Spinder is a Yukon-based writer and storyteller who loves jazz, shoes and puppets. She's also the Director of the Yukon Family Literacy Centre. Christine hopes to have a deep-winter-silence-writing-lock-in soon.
Katharine O’Flynn lives in Montreal. Her short stories have appeared in various Canadian and American journals, most recently in carte blanche and The Nashwaak Review.
