Federation of BC Writers

Author of An Ocean of Minutes Bio: Thea Lim is the author of An Ocean of Minutes, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, translated into three languages, and optioned for television. Her writing has been published in Granta, The Nation, The Paris Review, Best Canadian Stories, The Guardian, Guernica, and others. This year she is the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto. She grew up in Singapore and now lives with her family in Toronto.

Susan Olding is the author of Big Reader: Essays, a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Award and the Alberta Publishing Awards Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year, and Pathologies: A Life in Essays, selected by 49th Shelf and Amazon.ca as one of 100 Canadian books to read in a lifetime. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared widely in literary journals and magazines throughout Canada and the U.S., including Arc, The Bellingham Review, Grain, Prairie Fire, Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, and the Utne Reader, and have won a National Magazine Award, the Edna Staebler Prize for the Personal Essay, and other honours. She lives with her family in the traditional territories of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ nations, in Victoria, British Columbia.

Author of: The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: the Hurt, the Hope and the Healing, and Ride or Die Bio: Wanda Taylor is an award winning writer, journalist, and college professor. She is the author of eight fiction and non-fiction books in children’s, youth, and adult markets, and serves as Faculty/Mentor in the MFA Creative Non-Fiction Program at Kings College. Wanda teaches courses in journalism, story writing, and communications, and freelances as a book editor and sensitivity reader. Her magazine features, poems, and essays can be found in publications and anthologies across Canada, the US, and the UK.