Authors: Theresa Kishkan
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Theresa Kishkan was born in Victoria, BC, and has lived on both coasts of Canada as well as in Greece, England, and Ireland. She makes her home on the Sechelt Peninsula with her husband, John Pass, where they built their house and raised their three children. Together, they operate High Ground Press, which prints broadsheets and chapbooks on a nineteenth-century platen press.
Kishkan is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including two collections of essays,
Red Laredo Boots
and
Phantom Limb
; three novels, S
isters of Grass
,
A Man in a Distant Field
, and
The Age of Water Lilies
; and a novella,
Inishbream
. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and been nominated for several prestigious awards, including the Pushcart Prize, the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction, the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction, and the ReLit Award.
Phantom Limb
won the inaugural Readers' Choice Award given by the Canadian Creative Non-Fiction Collective. An essay from
Mnemonic
won the 2010 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Prize.