Nelson
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15 Sep 2017
Fumiko Greenaway
Fumiko Greenaway (née Endo) was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on April 16, 1929, the eldest child of George Chohei Endo and Tomie Endo, formerly of Miyagi-ken, near Sendai, in northern Japan. A cook, George had come to Canada and followed the railroad east, finding a job with the CPR hotel in Moose Jaw. Setting […]
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9 Aug 2017
Diana Morita Cole
Diana Morita Cole received the 2017 Richard Carver Award for Emerging Artists for her book, Sideways: Memoir of a Misfit, which tells of her birth behind barbed wires in a Minidoka incarceration site. Cole grew up in a ghetto on the Near North Side of Chicago, where she was coddled by her 80-year-old grandfather, who […]
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8 Aug 2017
Rachel Greenaway
R.M. GREENAWAY lives in Nelson, BC. She has written the acclaimed six-book BC Blues crime series and several short stories, and is now contemplating a new series. Check out her work or get in touch through rmgreenaway.com.