Tanis MacDonald
Dr. Tanis MacDonald is an accomplished poet and a brilliant scholar. Tanis recently embarked on a new phase of her academic life, beginning a tenure-track position at Laurier University. A winner of the Bliss Carman poetry prize and the Akorn-Rukeyser competition, she has published two previous collections of poetry, Holding Ground and Fortune and is set to release her third collection in the spring of 2008 with Turnstone Press.
Kimmy Beach
Kimmy's work has appeared in literary journals across Canada and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. Her poetry has been featured on both BookTV and CLT (Canadian Learning Television). She has had three previous collections of poetry published and has recently launched her fourth, in Cars, published by Turnstone Press and described as a free-wheelin’ tour of love, cars, and roller rinks. She is also Humboldt Collegiate Institute’s poet laureate.
Ryan Land
- Has been writing somewhat seriously for ten years.
- Has been teaching mainly English Language Arts for eight years. Besides poetry, one of his other great passions is basketball.
- Born in Winnipeg and has since lived in England, Alberta, Victoria, and Black Lake, Saskatchewan.
- He and his family live in Bruno in a big ol’ brick house.
- He and his partner Carmilla have four children: Cohen (8), Brontë is (6), Materia (2) and Cuyler (5 months). Their dog’s name is Farley and their guinea pig’s name is Tamu.
- Created and hosted a reading series in Winnipeg called “Speaking Crow,” that lives on in his absence and is now the longest running reading series in Winnipeg.
- Has been published in Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, The Society, Global City Review, and in various chapbooks.
- Is the former director of the Sure Crop Student and Teacher Creative Writing Retreat, the editor of the STELA newsletter, and a member of the Pelican Bay Arts Collective.
He believes that poetry can cure the world.
Robert LeBlanc
"If I hadn’t become a teacher, I think I would have been a writer (not a real writer, mind you, but the unemployed, desperate type, who still lives in their parents’ basement). As that dream never panned out, I spend my time in the History department at Humboldt Collegiate. As for my writing life, in 2005 my essay, 'We Believe What We Know', was nominated for the Avie Bennett Prize for Canadian Literature, a national literary award. In 2007, my poetry recieved publication in the St. Peter's Press annual, 'The Society'. I continue to work towards a writing life (and a basement home)."
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