K.R. Byggdin – Surrey Muse

K.R. Byggdin is the author of Wonder World (Enfield & Wizenty 2022), a novel that explores the possibilities of queer belonging in a small Mennonite town. Their writing has also appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada, the UK, and New Zealand. K.R. is an alum of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia’s Alistair MacLeod Mentorship program, the Banff Centre’s Emerging Writers Intensive, and Dalhousie University’s English and Creative Writing program. They have received an Honorable Mention for the Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022. Born and raised on the Prairies, they now live in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).

Photo by Danny Abriel / Dalhousie University.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, K.R. will feature as an Emerging Writer. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Daniela Elza – Surrey Muse

Daniela Elza is an author, poet, editor, mentor, and a creative writing instructor to writers of all ages. She has published five collections of poetry titled the broken boat (2020), the weight of dew (2012), milk tooth bane bone (2013), the book of it (2011), and slow erosions (2020)— a chapbook she wrote in collaboration with poet Arlene Ang. Daniela’s work has won numerous contests, is published internationally, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology multiple times. Daniela’s essays can be found in Riddle Fence, GRAIN, Motherwell, Queen’s Quarterly, About Place Journal and subTerrain. In 2022, her poems were placed second in the Ken Belford Poetry Prize for Social Justice, and Daniela became a founding member of the Place Mattering Matters Collective, that explores the poetry and math of home, and advocates for affordable housing in her community located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Daniela will be the Featured Poet. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Daniel G. Scott – Surrey Muse

Daniel G Scott is a poet, educator and an arts organizer who has published six books of poetry including Travels with Athóma (Aeolus House, 2022), gnarled love, terrains, Random Excess and Aftertime with Ekstasis Editions. He is the editor of Voicing Suicide (Ekstasis Editions, 2020), an anthology of suicide poems with an afterword by Australian scholar, Dr. Katrina Jaworski. His title black onion, and two chapbooks street signs and Interrupted were published by Goldfinch Press while his chapbook [klee-shays] undone was released by Nose in Book Publishing in 2020. Daniel was the Artistic Director of the Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series in Victoria for nearly 6 years. His poems have been published in journals, anthologies and chapbooks as well as numerous academic publications. Recently, several of his suicide poems have appeared in academic journal articles on the topic of suicide. He co-authored, with Shannon McFerran, The Girls Diary Project (University of Victoria, 2013), an account of research involving adolescent girls’ diaries. He won a one-act playwriting competition in New Brunswick in 1984. Daniel is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Daniel will be the Featured Author. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Marian Dodds – Surrey Muse

Marian Dodds is a writer and an educator. Her work has been published in Emerge 18, BCTF Teacher newsmagazine, Post Script, Above and Beyond, Canada’s Arctic Journal, and Spider Webs Unite. She has taught at public schools and universities, coordinated
union social justice programs, designed curriculum, written for professional teacher publications, edited the BC Teachers’ Federation flagship magazine Teacher, and she has volunteered in Africa and Central America. Most recently, she worked for three years in Ethiopia, a country famous for jailing journalists; she avoided deportation by becoming adept at self-censorship while blogging at Spider Webs Unite. A 2018 graduate of the SFU Writer’s Studio and the TWS Graduate Workshop, Marian is
currently completing a memoir exploring the existential underbelly of her time in Ethiopia. Her next project will juxtapose her late 50’s and early 60’s childhood memories with the rapid changes in Canada’s Arctic. In 2022, Marian’s work was shortlisted for Federation of BC Writers’ Creative Non-fiction Award, and it was selected as the Second Place Winner for the Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction.

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At the January 28, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Marian will be the Featured Author. More about the event is here: saturday-january-28

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Heather Haley – Surrey Muse

Heather Haley is a multi-media artists integrating disciplines, genres and media. She is the author of novel, The Town Slut’s Daughter, currently being adapted to the stage, and of poetry collections Sideways, Three Blocks West of Wonderland and Skookum Raven. Heather’s writings have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. She was poetry editor for the LA Weekly and publisher of the Edgewise Cafe, one of Canada’s first electronic literary magazines. Heather has directed numerous videopoems that became official selections at dozens of international film festivals. She has toured Canada, the U.S and Europe in support of two critically acclaimed CDs of spoken word songs titled Princess Nut and Surfing Season. (Photo by Patrick Powers)

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At the October 28, 2022 gathering of Surrey Muse, Heather will be the Featured Poet. More about the event is here: friday-october-28

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Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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