sheilapeters
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
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| Member | Jun 18, 2012 (14 years) |
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Bio
Born in the coastal BC town of Powell River, Sheila Peters moved inland to the mountains near Smithers in northwestern BC 45 years ago. Her work has appeared in several Canadian literary journals, including Event, Prairie Fire, Grain, The Malahat Review, and Descant. Creekstone Press published her first book, Canyon Creek: A Script in 1998 and BeachHolme Press in Vancouver published Tending the Remnant Damage, a collection of short stories, in 2001. The weather from the west came out in 2007 and The Taste of Ashes, a novel, was published by Caitlin Press in 2012. A chapbook of poetry about a kayak trip to the northwest coast of BC, The Bathymetry of Lax Kwaxl was published by Leaf Press in 2016. Her writing has also been published in several anthologies including Rocksalt (Mothertongue) and Unfurled (Caitlin). Her blog, Say the Names, collects stories and essays around the resistance to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal.