Lucy E.M. Black – Surrey Muse

Lucy is an inveterate eavesdropper: she collects voices, dialects and stories and weaves them into her writing. She is the author of The Marzipan Fruit Basket, a collection of short stories, Eleanor Courtown, a work of historical fiction, and Stella’s Carpet, a novel about intergenerational trauma. The Brickworks, a historical novel, will be released in the Fall of 2023. Her stories have been published in Britain, Ireland, the USA and Canada. She lives with her partner in the small lakeside town of Port Perry, Ontario, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island, First Nations. Lucy has received Honorable Mention for the Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022.

Contact Lucy
olive@michaeljbblack.com

At the April 22, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Lucy will be an Emerging Writer participating from Port Perry ON via Skype. More about the event is here: saturday-april-22

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Samantha Krilow – Surrey Muse

Samantha Krilow is a writer and storyteller who is a creative writing and Indigenous community justice student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her Cree-Métis and Croatian heritage are important influences in her creative work; her journey of reconnection to her roots runs parallel to her writing and storytelling development. Her work focuses on Indigenous contemporary realities and incorporates traditional storytelling and oral traditions alongside new forms and media. Her writing has been featured in Pulp Magazine and Literary Cultures Journal. Samantha has received Honorable Mention for the Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction in 2022.

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At the April 22, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Samantha will be the Emerging Writer presenting her award-winning short story. More about the event is here: saturday-april-22

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Tamar Haytayan – Surrey Muse

Tamar Haytayan is a writer and photographer working from a personal and intuitive perspective to capture candid moments of the culture of everyday life. Tamar studied photography at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design in UK, and her body of work spans over the last 28 years. Exploration of memory, mortality and grief has been a major theme of her work. Two of her recent projects explore the idea of fate and memory after genocide and intergenerational trauma as well as the self in middle age. She has shown at the Armenian Centre for Contemporary Art (Yerevan, Armenia), PhotoHaus Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (Philadelphia, USA), The Women’s Art Show (Vancouver, Canada), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado), Los Angeles Centre of Photography (Los Angeles), The Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, Oregon), and has collaborated with the performance artist and poet Dr. Celeste Snowber (SFU). Tamar has received an Honorable Mention for the Norval Morrisseau Award 2022. At this time, she resides in Vancouver.

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

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Hya Sheikh – Surrey Muse

Hya Sheikh is a poet, writer and visual artist who has recently earned an Honorable Mention for the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry 2022. Much of her creative work is centered around mental illness, emotional hardship, and unraveling the ‘other. Informed by personal experiences and being a minority in more ways than one, Hya finds expression in poetry, writing and art, and she is passionate about social justice, intersectional feminism and mental health. When she’s not petting cats or listening to metal, Hya finds herself articulating and disentangling the emotional, personal and social, weaving narratives, poems and visual illustrations of how the realms interject. Hya has a Bachelor’s in Sociology from the University of Toronto where she now works as an Academic Counselor.

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hya.sheikh@mail.utoronto.ca

At the February 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Hya will feature as an Emerging Poet. More about the event is here: saturday-feb-25

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Diary Marif – Surrey Muse

Diary Marif (aka Dyari Xalid Marif) is an Iraqi-Kurdish writer, activist and journalist with over 15 years of experience as a reporter, editor, and researcher. He earned a master’s degree in History from Pune University in India in 2013, and he moved to Vancouver from Iraq in 2017. Diary has been focusing on nonfiction writing and has recently written two book chapters for two different projects. An author at New Canadian Media, he writes about immigrants, newcomers, and minorities. He participates in rallies in solidarity with minorities and subminorities and fights against discrimination and racism. Diary is the recipient of an Honorable Mention for the Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction 2022.

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At the February 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Dyari will feature as the Emerging Writer. More about the event is here: saturday-feb-25

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Surrey Muse gatherings take place
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Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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