Ullmann, after earning a BA in English from SFU in 1978, Monika worked as house editor for CommCept Publishing. Married to sculptor Peter Paul Ochs, she wrote for the Sculptors' Society of B.C. and curated The Age of Bronze exhibition at Images for a Vancouver Gallery. After several years in the high tech industry she became a freelance journalist, writing features on the arts, health and tourism for magazines and newspapers in Vancouver. She lives in Victoria.
Warrior is a poet, a former logger and fisherman, and a lifelong trade unionist, Warrior was a founding member of VIWU, (the Vancouver Industrial Writers’ Union) along with Tom Wayman, Kate Braid, Kirsten Emmott, Phil Hall and others. He is also author of Building the Power: A History of the Labourers’ Union in British Columbia. This is his long awaited first book of poetry. He lives on the Gulf Islands.
Wigmore is the author of many books of poetry including Soft Geography, which won of the 2008 ReLit Award. Her work has been shortlisted for the Great BC Novel Contest, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, and has been anthologized in Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2013). This is her first work of fiction. She lives in Prince George, BC.
Yawnghwe was born in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and grew up in Vancouver, BC. A graduate of the University of British Columbia (MA), she is the co-founder Xerography, a little literary journal, and fish magic press, a micro press which produces fine, hand-made publications. She lives in Burnaby, BC.
