Writer and editor Nav Nagra joins me to talk about her upcoming Migration issue with Room Magazine. Listen here!

Shazia Hafiz Ramji is the new poetry editor for PRISM International and has just won the 2017 Robert Kroetsch for Innovative Poetry. Her poetry chapbook Prosopopoeia is available with Anstruther Press, and her full-length collection Port of Being will be out next year. We chatted about addiction, depression, writing and UBC. Listen.

Tenille Campbell is a Dene and Métis author from English River First Nation in Northern Saskatchewan. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is in her fourth year of PhD studies at the University of Saskatchewan, focusing in Indigenous Literature. Her poetry collection casts a gaze upon Indigenous Erotica and the humour within. Listen!

Laura Yan, a multi-talented fiction and nonfiction author, joined me to talk about her experiences as an immigrant to America and what we can call do in the face of Trump politics. Her messages of hope and triumph were truly inspiring. Listen here!

The Storytelling Show collective join me to talk about long-distance running, long-form writing and late-in-life career changes.

ZOE WHITTALL joined me to talk about her Giller-nominated novel THE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE, a heartbreaking story plumbing the intricacies and collateral damage of rape culture. Listen here!

Harani Ramasamy and I met at the Crisis Centre in Vancouver where we both volunteer as Community Educators, facilitating high school workshops on self-care and mindfulness. She chats Behavioural Neuroscience, stress and racism. Listen here!

National Magazine and National Newspaper Award-winning author Sierra Skye Gemma joins me to chat about her Best Feature “My Sexual Education” published in the Globe and Mail. Listen here!

After a seven-month hiatus, I am back with special guest Jen Sookfong Lee whose new novel THE CONJOINED kept me up turning pages until very late at night. We chat writing, parenting and race and diversity. Listen here!

I chatted with Jackie Wong about the UBC faculty’s open letter of apology in response to the school’s failure to address sexual assault on campus. Listen here!