THERESA KISHKAN lives on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. She and her husband, John Pass, operate High Ground Press, which specializes in the letterpress printing and publishing of poetry broadsheets and chapbooks. Her work has appeared in journals on this continent and abroad, and a suite of her poems was set to music by the composer Steve Tittle. She has twice won Province of British Columbia Cultural Service awards.

Kishkan is the author of six poetry collections and a book of essays, Red Laredo Boots, that brings to life a land-scape impregnated with history and memory. In 2000, her widely praised first novel, Sisters of Grass, announced the emergence of a major new writer of fiction.