Di Brandt often stylized as di brandt,is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg,Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018.
Nellie Letitia McClung was a Canadian author,politician,and social activist,who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the 1908 book Sowing Seeds in Danny,and would eventually publish sixteen books,including two autobiographies. She played a leading role in the women's suffrage movement in Canada,helping to grant women the vote in Alberta and Manitoba in 1916. McClung was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1921,where she served until 1926.
Jean Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist and short story writer,and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada,a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination,with 95,000 baptized members in 519 congregations,with the second largest,the Lutheran Church–Canada,having 53,165 baptized members. Together with the LCC and the Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations,it is one of only three all-Canadian Lutheran denominations. It is a member of the Lutheran World Federation,the Canadian Council of Churches,the World Council of Churches,and the Anglican-Lutheran North American grouping Churches Beyond Borders. According to the 2011 Canadian census,a larger number of 478,185 adherents identify as Lutheran.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim is an American writer of poetry,fiction,and criticism. She was both the first woman and the first Asian person to be awarded Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection,Crossing The Peninsula,which she published in 1980. In 1997,she received the American Book Award for her memoir,Among the White Moon Faces.
Ella Cora Hind was a Canadian journalist,agriculturalist,Women's rights activist and suffragist. During the Great Depression,she became famous internationally for her accurate predictions of Canadian prairie crop yields. "Her predictions so regularly proved correct that grain handlers across the world came to rely on them."
Sun Yung Shin is a Korean American poet,writer,consultant,and educator living in Minneapolis,Minnesota.
Alison Watt is a Canadian writer,and painter born in Winnipeg,Manitoba,Watt grew up in Victoria,British Columbia. She studied biology (BSC) at Simon Fraser University and Creative Writing (MFA) at the University of British Columbia. She has worked as Education Coordinator at the VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver,a tour leader in Central and South America,and a naturalist aboard the west coast schooner Maple Leaf,sailing among British Columbia's Gulf Islands,Haida Gwaii,the Great Bear Rainforest,and Alaska. She has taught art to adults since 1995,in her studio on Protection Island,Nanaimo,BC,in other venues. Since 2020 she has offered courses online,through her business ARTWORK ARTPLAY.
Dora Dueck is a Canadian writer. She is the author of three novels,a collection of short fiction,and a collection of essays and memoir. Her second novel,This Hidden Thing,was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the 2011 Manitoba Book Awards. What You Get at Home,a collection of short stories,was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Award at the 2013 Manitoba Book Awards. It won the High Plains Book Award for Short Stories. The Malahat Review,a Canadian literary magazine,awarded its 2014 Novella Prize to her story "Mask". All That Belongs,her third novel,was published in 2019. Her stories and articles have appeared in a variety of journals and on the CBC.
Edith Sara Watson was a photographer whose career spanned the 1890s through the 1930s. She is best known for her photojournalistic images of everyday life,working people,and women,particularly in Canada.
Wabanakwut "Wab" Kinew,is the Leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer,who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs. Vermette is of Métis descent and originates from Winnipeg,Manitoba. She was an MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
Tanis MacDonald is a Canadian poet,professor,reviewer,and writer of creative non-fiction. She is Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University with specialities in Canadian literature,women’s literature,and the elegy. She is the author of four books of poetry and one scholarly study,the editor of a selected works,and the founder of the Elegy Roadshow.
Bernice Chauly is Malaysian writer,poet,educator,festival director,actor,photographer and filmmaker.
Eleanor Rose Ty,FRSC,is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds a PhD and MA in English from McMaster University,and a BA Hons from the University of Toronto.
Nicole Chung is an American writer and editor. She is the former managing editor of The Toast,the editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine,and the author of the memoirs All You Can Ever Know (2018) and ALiving Remedy (2023).
Carol Ann Weaver is an American-Canadian composer,pianist,and teacher.
Sarah Ens is a Canadian poet and editor from Winnipeg,Manitoba.
