2024 Festival:
October 21–27

Elee Kraljii Gardiner

(BRITISH COLUMBIA)

ELEE KRALJII GARDINER is a creative mentor, editor, and poet. She founded Thursdays Writing Collective, a non-profit organization of Downtown Eastside writers. She is the author of Trauma Head, which won the Fred Cogswell Award; serpentine loop; and the co-editor with John Asfour of V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

2022 Festival Events: