Mother Tongue Publishing Limited

Christina Johnson-Dean

The Life and Art of Mary Filer

The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff- Schleicher

The Life and Art of Ina D.D. Uhthoff

Love of the Salish Sea Islands

Finalist for the Victoria Butler Book Prize

Johnson-Dean graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a BA (History, Art) before earning a Professional Teacher’s Certificate at San Jose State University and teaching in public schools. After travelling around the world, teaching ESL in Thailand and elementary school in New Zealand, she returned to live near her sister and family in Canada. At the University of Victoria, she completed an MA (History in Art), worked as a teaching assistant for the department, and created courses on local art history for Continuing Studies. Her publications include The Life and Art of Ina D.D. Uhthoff, L & A of Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher, and the L & A of Mary Filer in the Unheralded Artists of BC series, The Crease Family: A Record of Settlement and Service in British Columbia (B.C. Archives, 1981), and “B.C. Women Artists 1885-1920” in British Columbia Women Artists (aggv, 1985). She teaches in the Greater Victoria School District. She and her husband have two daughters.

Chelene Knight

Braided Skin, poetry

111 West Coast Literary Portraits

Force Field, 77 Women Poets of BC

The Summer Book

Knight was born in Vancouver and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU. She has been published in Sassafras Literary Magazine, Room, emerge 2013, Raven Chronicles, and was a member of the editorial board of Room. She is a well-known mentor to young writers and is working on a novel. Her work is deeply rooted in her experiences of mixed ethnicity. Braided Skin is her first book.

Julia Leggett

Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear

Force Field, 77 Women Poets of BC

Leggett was born in Calgary but grew up in Zimbabwe. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She has served on the poetry editorial board for PRISM international Magazine. Her work has appeared in Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia, edited by Susan Musgrave. She lives in Victoria, B.C., where she is working on her Master's in Counselling Psychology and a book of poetry.