About Us

Meet Catherine Graham

Catherine Graham is an award-winning poet, novelist and creative writing instructor. Her debut novel, Quarry, was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Contemporary Fiction and Fred Kerner Book Award and won the Miramichi Reader’s “The Very Best!” Book Award and IPPY Award gold medal for Fiction. She is the author of seven acclaimed poetry collections, including Æther: An Out–of-Body Lyric, a finalist for the Toronto Book Award, Trillium Book Award and winner of the Fred Kerner Book Award. The Celery Forest was a CBC Best Book of the Year and finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award and  Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award and CAA Poetry Award. Her second novel, The Most Cunning Heart, appeared on The Miramichi Reader ‘s Best Fiction List. A previous winner of the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Poetry NOW competition, she leads its monthly book club and interviews for By the Lake Book Club. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems appears 2023.

Connect with Catherine: 

www.catherinegraham.com 

Twitter: @catgrahampoet

Instagram: @catgrahampoet

Catherine’s photo is by Marion Voysey.

Meet Jessica Outram

An award-winning author, poet laureate emeritus, and experienced educator, Jessica Outram is the author of a novel for middle grade students, Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold, and of the poetry collection The Thing with Feathers. ​

Jessica’s work explores place, memory, and the quiet forces that shape a life. Her writing is attentive to history and landscape, often circling questions of belonging, identity, and voice, inspired by the layered histories of Georgian Bay. She’s a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, with roots in the Georgian Bay Métis community.

Connect with Jessica:

www.jessicaoutram.com

Jessica’s photo is by John Davidson.