Mary Schendlinger (born August 1948 [1] ) is a writer and editor. She is the senior editor at Geist , a magazine she co-founded with Stephen Osborne. [2]
Schendlinger grew up in Waukesha, Wisconsin. As a child, she was greatly inspired by Mad Magazine, and submitted her writing and comics to it several times without success. [1] [2]
She currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. [1]
Schendlinger worked for seven years as an editorial/production assistant at Talon books, then for ten years as a managing editor for Harbour Publishing, where she was responsible for the Encyclopedia of British Columbia. [3] She was also employed as a typesetter by Pulp Press (now Arsenal Pulp Press) involved with Press Gang Publishers's Makara magazine. [4]
Schendlinger has edited books for Douglas & McIntyre, Greystone Books, Raincoast Books, Heritage House, Calypso Books, Arsenal Pulp Press, as well as publications for the Vancouver Art Gallery. [3]
Schendlinger has taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and Malaspina College. [3]
Brian Brett is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and novelist. He has been writing and publishing since the late 1960s, and he has worked as an editor for several publishing firms, including the Governor-General's Award-winning Blackfish Press. He has also written a three-part memoir of his life in British Columbia.
Michael Turner is a Canadian musician, and writer of poetry, prose and opera librettos. His writing is noted for including detailed and purposeful examination of ordinary things.
Stephen Osborne is a Canadian writer and editor. He is the author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World, and since 1990 has been an editor of Geist magazine.
Bridget Moran, née Drugan, was a Canadian social activist and author in British Columbia. Born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, shortly after her birth her family emigrated to Success, Saskatchewan, where she grew up.
Talonbooks is an independent publisher of Canadian literature based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its repertoire features authors writing in the literary genres of poetry, fiction and drama, as well as non-fiction books in the fields of ethnography, environmental and social issues, cultural studies, and literary criticism. Notable Talonbooks authors include Michel Tremblay, George Ryga, bpNichol, George Bowering, bill bissett, Daphne Marlatt, George F. Walker, M.A.C. Farrant and Mary Meigs.
Cynthia Flood is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton, she grew up primarily in Toronto. After attending the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley she spent some years in the United States, where she married Maurice Flood before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1969.
Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non-fiction, focusing primarily on underrepresented genres such as underground literature, LGBT literature, multiracial literature, graphic novels, visual arts, progressive and activist non-fiction and works in translation, and is noted for founding the annual Three-Day Novel Contest.
Billeh Nickerson is a Canadian writer, editor, performer, producer and arts advocate.
Betsy Warland is a Canadian feminist writer, and the author of a dozen books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose. She is most widely known for her collection of essays, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing (2010).
Marion Alice Coburn Farrant is a Canadian short fiction writer and journalist. She lives in North Saanich, British Columbia.
Rachel Rose is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science, Notes on Arrival and Departure, and Song and Spectacle. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
Elizabeth Bachinsky is a Canadian poet. She has published four collections since 2005: Curio, Home of Sudden Service, God of Missed Connections, and The Hottest Summer in Recorded History. Her second book, Home of Sudden Service, was nominated for a 2006 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Bachinsky's work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., France, Ireland, the U.K., China and Lebanon.
Cathy Stonehouse is a British-born poet and writer who has lived in Canada since 1988.
Mette Bach is a Danish-Canadian author, teacher, screenwriter, and director. She was born in Denmark and grew up in North Delta. Bach attended Simon Fraser University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English. She has an MFA from the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing Program.
Susan Elizabeth McCaslin is a Canadian poet and writer.
David Hamilton Stouck is a Canadian literary critic and biographer, formerly Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
Daniel Gawthrop is a Canadian writer and editor. He is the author of five books, most recently The Trial of Pope Benedict and The Rice Queen Diaries. As a journalist he was the original publisher and editor of Xtra! West in Vancouver, and has also contributed to publications including the Vancouver Sun, The Economist, The Georgia Straight, Quill & Quire, Canadian Forum and The Tyee. He now works as a communications representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Claudia Maria Cornwall is a Canadian writer and journalist. Her second non-fiction book, the autobiographical Letter from Vienna: A Daughter Uncovers her Family's Jewish Past won the 1996 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Gillian Jerome is a Canadian poet, essayist, editor and instructor. She won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2009 and the ReLit Award for Poetry in 2010. Jerome is a co-founder of Canadian Women In Literary Arts (CWILA), and also serves as the poetry editor for Geist. She is a lecturer in literature at the University of British Columbia and also runs writing workshops at the Post 750 in downtown Vancouver.
Melanie O'Brian is a Canadian curator of contemporary art and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.