Maggie de Vries
www.maggiedevries.com

Maggie de Vries is the author of four books for children and one book for adults. Her most recent children's book, Tale of a Great White Fish: a Sturgeon Story won the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award and the Christis Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize. Chance and the Butterfly, the book from which she drew the excerpt that appears here, is currently out of print, but widely available at libraries. Maggie lives in Vancouver with her husband, Roland, and their two cats, Misha and Sophie.

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Chance and the Butterfly

kc dyer
www.kcdyer.blogspot.com
www.kcdyer.com

kc dyer was born in Calgary, and after a peripatetic decade or two now lives with her children (and other animals) north of Vancouver, British Columbia, where she works as a freelance writer, speaker and conference coordinator for the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. The author of a number of books for young adults that are published in North America and the UK, kc has a secret fondness for inducing nausea in teens and can often be found sharing some of the greatest grotesque moments in history with large groups of high school students. Unable to see the folly of her ways, kc continues to write and most days can be found sitting at her desk, surfing the time-space continuum searching for the perfect word…

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PIONEER...a traveller's tale

M.A.C. Farrant

M.A.C. Farrant is the author of eight collections of satirical and humorous short fiction. As well, a novel-length memoir, My Turquoise Years, was published by Greystone Books/Douglas & McIntyre in 2004. In 2007 a short fiction collection, The Breakdown So Far appeared from Talonbooks. Her stories have been adapted for both radio and television and are widely anthologized in Canada and the United States. She is currently working with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver on a stage adaptation of My Turquoise Years. A collection, "Down the Road to Eternity-New & Selected Fiction", will appear from Talonbooks in 2009. A collection of literary non-fiction-"Notes on the Wedding"-will appear from Key Porter Books, also in 2009. She reviews fiction and non-fiction for the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto Globe & Mail and is the host and co-organizer of the long-running Sidney Reading Series.

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Pamela King

Pamela King studied creative writing at the University of Victoria. She now makes her home in Vancouver, where she devotes her days to working for the BC SPCA, and writes poetry and prose in her spare time.

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Sarah Kramer
www.govegan.net

Combining her love of food and her love of animals into a homemade cookbook zine to give friends and family as xmas presents. Reaction to the zine was so overwhelming that she realized that she was on to something special and her aspirations to do something with her life that made a difference in the world soon became a reality.  How it all Vegan! Sold 150,000 copies and has also been awarded the 2003/2004 Veg News Veggie award for Best Veg Cookbook. Sarah was awarded Veg News Veggie award for favourite cookbook author in 2005 and a M-Award in 2006 for Favourite Book for LDV.  She lives with her husband Gerry and Fergus the Dog, on a nice street somewhere near the beach in Victoria.

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Andrea Macpherson
www.andreamacpherson.com

Andrea MacPherson is a poet and novelist. She has written four books: two novels, When She Was Electric (Raincoast, 2003) and Beyond the Blue (Random House, 2007) and two poetry collections, Natural Disasters (Palimpsest, 2007) and Away (Signature Editions, 2008). When She Was Electric was listed No. 6 on CBC Canada Reads: People's Choice, and Natural Disasters was longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards. Andrea holds an MFA from the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia, where she was Editor of Prism International. She is the Reviews Editor for Event Magazine, and teaches Creative Writing with University of the Fraser Valley and Douglas College.

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Pete McCormack
www.petemccormack.com

Called a "modern-day renaissance man" by the Vancouver Sun, Pete McCormack is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, musician, poet, producer and director.   Pete's two novels, Shelby (1995) and Understanding Ken (1998), both received critical acclaim, in particular Understanding Ken, which was short-listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Canadian Humour and the Word On The Street People's Choice Award and was named one of the years ten best books by the Ottawa Citizen. Both books have been optioned for the screen, yet still remain only available in book form.

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Margaret Thompson
http://members.shaw.ca/magpye/index.html

Margaret Thompson came to Canada in 1967 and taught English at secondary and post-secondary levels until 1998. Her publishing credits include Squaring the Round, a self-published collection of prose and poetry on the early history of Fort St. James, Hide and Seek (Caitlin, 1996), Eyewitness (Ronsdale, 2000), a YA novel that won a BC2000 Book Award, Fox Winter (Hodgepog, 2003), and Knocking on the Moonlit Door (NeWest, 2004), a collection of travel essays, as well as short stories and articles in various literary magazines. She is a Past President of the Federation of BC Writers, and a member of the editorial committee of WordWorks. She lives in Victoria, BC.

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Ann Walsh
www.canscaip.org/bios/walsha.html

Although Ann Walsh is perhaps best known for her historical fiction for younger readers, especially The Barkerville Mystery Trilogy, her short stories and creative nonfiction pieces for adults have been published in anthologies, magazines and journals in several countries as well as heard on CBC radio. Ann is also the author of a book of poetry and has compiled and edited three anthologies. Her latest book is Forestry A-Z, co-authored with Kathleen Cook Waldron. Ann has lived in the Cariboo region of B.C. for forty years and over that time she and her family have offered a home to many dogs and cats, including Rupert.

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