George Bowering is a two-time Governor General’s Award winner and the author of at least one hundred books, most recently The Dad Dialogues (with Charles Demers, 2016), The Hockey Scribbler (2016), Attack of the Toga Gang (2015), Ten Women (2015), Writing the Okanagan (2015), and The World, I Guess (2015).
Born in San Francisco, poet George Stanley has been living in BC since the early 1970s, first in Vancouver, then in Terrace and then back in Vancouver. A former instructor in the English department at Capilano College, he has published seven books, including Vancouver: A Poem, At Andy’s, Gentle Northern Summer, Opening Day, The Stick, and You. He is the recipient of the 2006 Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry.