Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of five collections of poetry: Curio (Book*hug, 2005) Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood Editions, 2006), God of Missed Connections (Nightwood Editions, 2009), I Don't Feel So Good (Book*hug, 2012), and The Hottest Summer in Recorded History (Nightwood Editions, 2013). Her poetry has been adapted for stage and screen and has been nominated for awards including the Pat Lowther Award, The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, and the Governor General's Award for Poetry.

Rhonda Batchelor’s poetry titles also include Bearings, Weather Report, and the forthcoming Allow Me. Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies including Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia. She lives in Victoria, BC.

Dominique Bernier-Cormier is a Québécois/Acadian poet who writes in both French and English. In 2017, he won the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem. His first book, Correspondent, a hybrid work of poetry and journalism, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. He lives in Vancouver, BC.

Jillian Bleackley author of Reflections and Script and Stills and the Willy Plumbottom trilogy, a series of children’s books. She grew up in Abbotsford, but now resides in New Westminster, BC.

Kate Braid is a writer, teacher, and former journeycarpenter who splits her time between Victoria and Pender Island, BC. She is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Elemental, and has also written the memoirs Journeywoman and Hammer & Nail.

Jane Byers is a poet, memoirist and documentary film writer living in Nelson, BC. She is the author of Acquired Community, Steeling Effects, and Small Courage: A Queer Memoir of Finding Love and Conceiving Family, and co-wrote the documentary films Only in Nelson and Conceiving Family.

Brad Cran is a writer and social entrepreneur who served as Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver from April 2009 until October of 2011. Cran published his first book, The Good Life, in 2001 and his Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (with Gillian Jerome), won the City of Vancouver Book Award and has raised over $60,000 for marginalized people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His second poetry collection, Ink on Paper, was published in 2013.

Jason Dewinetz is a writer, editor, typographer, printer, publisher, and educator originally from, and now living back in, Vernon, BC. An instructor at Okanagan College, Dewinetz is also the proprietor of Greenboathouse Press.

Marilyn's work has been widely anthologized in Canada and the U.S. She is Metis and much of her work focuses on Metis history and representation. Dumont lives in Edmonton, Alberta

Leef Evans is a writer and artist based in East Vancouver, BC.

Rhonda Ganz won the Relit Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Victoria Butler Book Prize, for her debut book, Frequent, small loads of laundry. She lives in Victoria, BC, where she works as a graphic designer and editor.

Poet, anthologist, and translator Gary Geddes has written or edited more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction. He has won dozens of awards, including the BC Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. His epic poem, “Falsework,” about the 1958 collapse of Vancouver's Second Narrows Bridge, was published to great acclaim in 2007. He lives on Thetis Island, BC.

Kuldip Gill (1934-2009) was born in Faridkot District, Punjab, India, and at age five, immigrated to Canada where she obtained her PhD in anthropology from UBC and taught at UBC, SFU, and at the Open Learning Agency. She taught creative writing and served on the editorial board of PRISM international, and she was awarded a BC Book Prize in 2000 for her collection Dharma Rose.

Jennica Harper is the author of three previous books of poetry: Wood, which was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, What It Feels Like for a Girl, and The Octopus and Other Poems. Her poetry has been translated for the stage, gone viral, and won Silver at the National Magazine Awards.

Eve Joseph’s Quarrels, was selected as the Canadian winner of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her two previous books of poetry were shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

Since his first publication in 1959, Lionel Kearns has been steadily producing poetry volumes as well as poems, stories, and essays that appear in various magazines and anthologies in Canada and around the world. His work ranges from traditional pieces in print to more experimental and dynamic screen-based forms. Kearns currently writes and develops his art in Vancouver, BC.

Patrick Lane (1939–2019) was considered by most writers and critics to be one of Canada's finest poets. He produced 24 books of poetry and won nearly every literary prize in Canada, from the Governor General's Award to the Canadian Authors Association Award to the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

Evelyn Lau is a lifelong Vancouverite who has lived in the same tiny condo for as long as Poetry in Transit has been running in BC (25 years). She is the author of thirteen books, including eight volumes of poetry. Her work has received the Milton Acorn Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and a National Magazine Award; she served as Vancouver’s Poet Laureate from 2011-2014. Evelyn’s most recent collection is Pineapple Express (Anvil Press, 2020).

Dr. Moberley Luger completed her PhD in English at UBC. Her poetry has been published in several Canadian journals, including The Malahat Review, Grain, Prairie Fire and The New Quarterly.

Emily McGiffin is the author of two poetry collections and a scholarly book. She divides her time between northwest BC and other parts of the world.

Kevin McNeilly lives in Vancouver BC, where he teaches English at UBC. In addition to his academic publications, he has had poems published in Canadian Literature and The Antigonish Review. His debut poetry collection, Embouchure, was published in 2011.

George McWhirter has lived in Vancouver for 53 years, same house, for 48. His poetry is also anthologized in The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse and Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (University of Cork Press).

Susan Musgrave lives near Masset on Haida Gwaii, islands in the North Pacific that lie equidistant from Luxor, Machu Picchu, Ninevah and Timbuktu. The high point of her literary career was finding her name in the index of Montreal‘s Irish Mafia. Her new book of poetry, Exculpatory Lilies, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in 2022.

W.H. (Bill) New has published a dozen collections of poetry, including Underwood Log (2004), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, and YVR (2011), which won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2012. A resident of Vancouver, BC, he was named to the Order of Canada in 2006.

Barbara Nickel’s first collection of poetry, The Gladys Elegies, won the Pat Lowther Award. Her third collection, Essential Tremor, was released by Caitlin Press in 2021. She lives and writes in Yarrow, BC, on the Stó:lo territory of the Pilalt and Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribes.

Andrew Parkin received his BA and MA in English from the University of Cambridge. He taught in a school in Hong Kong in the mid-sixties and then emigrated to Canada in 1970. He is a Canadian citizen and a member of the Canadian Writers’ Union and P.E.N.

Elise Partridge was the author of three books of poetry: Fielder’s Choice, Chameleon Hours, and The Exiles’ Gallery. Fielder’s Choice was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. Chameleon Hours won the Canadian Authors Association Award for poetry and was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. In 2017 New York Review Books published The If Borderlands: Collected Poems.

Pamela Porter's work has earned many accolades, including the inaugural Gwendolyn MacEwan Poetry Prize and the FreeFall Magazine Poetry Award. Her novel in verse, The Crazy Man, won the Governor General’s Award and other prizes. Pamela lives on a farm near Sidney, BC, with her family and a menagerie of rescued horses, dogs and cats.

Rachel Rose is the author of four collections of poetry, a memoir, and a short story collection. She is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Vancouver, the recipient of the Bronwen Wallace Award for fiction from The Writers’ Trust, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, a 2014 and 2016 Pushcart Prize and a 2016 nomination for a Governor General’s Award.

Laisha Rosnau lives, works, and writes in the unceded Okanagan Nation, the traditional and ancestral territory of the Syilx People. She is the author of four collections of poetry and two novels. Rosnau is the Curator of the Vernon Museum and, with her family, a resident caretaker of a wild bird sanctuary in Coldstream, BC.

Karen Shklanka was born in Toronto and has lived in Moose Factory, Ontario; Salt Spring Island, BC; Sydney, Australia; and now lives in Vancouver, BC with her partner. She works as an addiction medicine physician and teaches communication skills and physician wellness at UBC. She has published two books of poetry: Sumac's Red Arms which was short-listed for the Foreword Book of the Year award, and Ceremony of Touching, from which one long poem was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize.

Kevin Spenst is the author of Hearts Amok, Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong, and over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye (the Alfred Gustav Press), Surrey Sonnets (JackPine Press), and Upend (Frog Hollow Press).

George Stanley is the author of 11 books, including Vancouver: A Poem (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Finalist), At Andy's, Gentle Northern Summer, Opening Day, The Stick, and You. Born in San Francisco, Stanley has lived in BC since the early 1970s and currently resides in Vancouver, BC.

Tiffany Stone lives by the forest in Maple Ridge, BC, with her family and many family pets—including two snakes. She wrote many books for children, including Wood Could, Tallulah Plays the Tuba, and Floyd the Flamingo and his Flock of Friends.

Rob Taylor is the author of four poetry collections, including Strangers (Biblioasis, 2021). He lives in Port Moody, BC, on the unceded territories of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-waututh) Peoples.

Russell Thornton’s collection The Hundred Lives was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and his Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Raymond Souster Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His other titles include The Fifth Window, A Tunisian Notebook, House Built of Rain, The Human Shore and The Broken Face.

Diane L. Tucker writes fiction and poetry. Her poems have been published in numerous Canadian and international publications. Her first book of poetry, God on His Haunches (Nightwood Editions, 1996), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from UBC.

Tom Wayman has published more than 20 collections of his poems. In 2015, Wayman was named by the Vancouver Public Library a Vancouver Literary Landmark with a plaque on the city’s Commercial Drive commemorating Wayman’s contribution to Vancouver’s literary heritage based on his championing of work writing in the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1989, Wayman has been the Squire of “Appledore,” his estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern BC.

Sue Wheeler lives, works and writes on a seaside farm on Lasqueti Island, BC. Her previous books are Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry (Kalamalka Press, 1995) and Slow-Moving Target (Brick Books, 2000), both shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.

David Zieroth has published many books of poetry including The Fly in Autumn (2009), which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, How I Joined Humanity at Last (1998), which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Albrecht Dürer and me (2014) and most recently, the bridge from day to night (2018).

Jan Zwicky is a musician, philosopher, and award-winning poet. In 1999, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry for Songs for Relinquishing the Earth. Her Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences was also nominated for the Pat Lowther Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2006. Jan lives in Heriot Bay on Quadra Island, BC.