Lee, Philip: - Philip Lee is an award-winning journalist, who has received two Canadian Association of Journalists awards and several Atlantic Journalism Awards. His writing has been shortlisted for the Michener Award and the National Magazine Awards. He has published two books: Home Pool: The Fight to Save the Atlantic Salmon and the national bestseller Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna.

Fitch, Sheree: - Sheree Fitch burst onto the children's poetry scene with her celebrated book of nonsense verse Toes in My Nose in 1987. Since then, she has written 17 books for children and won numerous awards for her work, including the Mr. Christie Book Award, Marianna Dempster Award, Silver Birch Award, and Hackmatack Award. In 1998, she won the prestigious Vicky Metcalf award for a body of work inspirational to Canadian children. She has been goodwill ambassador for UNICEF since 1994.

Currie, Sheldon: - Sheldon Currie (b. 1934), a native of Reserve, Cape Breton, and a resident of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, taught for many years at St. Francis Xavier University. "The Glace Bay Miner's Museum" first appeared in the collection, The Glace Bay Miner's Museum (Deluge, 1979). It was the basis of the feature film, Margaret's Museum, which Currie subsequently rewrote as a novella, and it is included in the collection, The Story So Far (Breton Books, 1997).

Pittman, Al: - Al Pittman (1940-2001), born in St. Leonard's, Placentia Bay, NL, was the author of numerous plays, stories, essays, and scripts for television and radio. He taught at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook. He was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour. His last collection, Thirty for Sixty (1999), won the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry.

Donovan, Stewart: - Stewart Donovan has taught in the English Department since 1985. He founded the Irish Studies Program and the Film Studies program. In 1994, he founded the Nashwaak Review, a literary, arts, and culture magazine that he continues to edit. He has published several books of poetry and a novel, Maritime Union: A Political Tale (Non-Entity, 1992).

Folster, David: - David Folster is a journalist, social historian, and heritage and conservation activist. He has written for a wide assortment of magazines and newspapers including the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Sports Illustrated, Canadian Geographic, and the Christian Science Monitor. He has also been a frequent contributor to CBC Radio and Television programs. He is the author of The Great Trees of New Brunswick and The Chocolate Ganongs of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, a narrative history of the business that was shortlisted for the 1990 Canadian Business Book of the Year Award. Mr. Folster is fascinated by history, particularly New Brunswick history, at which he has spent "an irresponsible around of time." He believes his native province is still the "unknown province in what was once called the Unknown Country." He lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Elder, Jo-Anne: - Jo-Anne Elder was a member of the Romance Languages Department in 1990-1991. Since then, she has taught French part-time and more recently has taught in the Gender Studies Program. Active as a writer, translator, and editor, she wrote Postcards from Ex-Lovers (Broken Jaw Press, 2005) and has translated many works from French into English. Three of her translations -- a novel (Tales from Dog Island: St. Pierre et Miquelon, Killick, 2002) and two books of poems (Beatitudes, Goose Lane, 2007, and One, Goose Lane, 2009) -- were shortlisted for Governor General's Awards. She is editor of la revue ellipse magazine, a journal devoted to Canadian literature in translation.

Cogswell, Fred: - Of both French and English ancestry, Fred Cogswell (1917) grew up on a farm in Carleton County, NB. He is widely known as a former editor of The Fiddlehead and publisher of Fiddlehead Poetry Books. He edited the two-volume The Atlantic Anthology (1985) and, with Jo-Anne Elder, translated and edited Unfinished Dreams: Contemporary Poetry of Acadie (1990). He is the editor and translator of The Poetry of Modern Quebec (1976). In 1995 he received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in Literary Arts.

Steele, Tony: - Tony Steele was a part-time member of the English Department from 2000 to 2004. Much of his career was at the University of Manitoba. He has published poems in many literary magazines and in four books: A Slanting/Line (N. Young, 1966), The Dance of the Minotaur (Capricorn, 1970), The Dancer (Wild Columbine, 1995), and Impossible Landscapes: Poems Narrative and Lyrical (Broken Jaw, 2005). He is retired and living in Fredericton.

Brodie, Ian: - Ian Brodie was class valedictorian and graduated in 1996 with Honours in Religious Studies. After earning an MA in Religious Studies at Memorial University, he turned his attention to folklore. Since 2005, he has taught Folklore in the Department of Heritage and Culture at Cape Breton University. His doctoral dissertation is a folkloristic study of stand-up comedy.

Moore, Roger: - Roger Moore was born on the Gower Peninsula in Wales in 1944. After leaving school, he spent a year in Paris and Santander, Spain, before attending Bristol University, from which he graduated with a Special Honours Degree in Spanish. From 1966 to 1969 he taught and studied at the University of Toronto. After two further years in Spain, he has taught at UNB and St. Thomas universities in Fredericton ever since. Last Year in Paradise, Moore's first collection of poetry, appeared with Fiddlehead Poetry Books in 1977. Although widely published in England as an undergraduate (he won first prize for poetry at the Stroud Festival of Religious Drama and the Arts in 1962), it was not until 1983 that his poems began to appear in Canadian reviews. In the last two years, however, he has been published by Arc, The Antigonish Review, The Canadian Literary Review, Poetry Canada Review, Poetry Toronto, Pottersfield Portfolio, Quarry, and Waves.

Tremblay, Tony: - Tony Tremblay joined the English Department in 1996. He has published widely in the fields of technology, film, media, pedagogy, and literary modernism. He edited David Adams Richards: Essays on his Work &$#40Guernica, 2005) and George Sanderson: Editor and Cultural Worker (Antigonish Review, 2007). Currently he is Canada Research Chair in New Brunswick Studies. The son of three generations of mill workers, he grew up in Dalhousie.

Spray, Carole: - Carole Spray earned her BSW in 1990 and has taught part-time in both the English and the Social Work departments. In addition to Will o' the Wisp (Brunswick Press, 1979), she has published poems, stories, and reviews in various magazines and is co-author (with William Spray) of New Brunswick: Its History and its People (Gage, 1984). Her children's story, The Mare's Egg (Camden House, 1981), was made into a film by the National Film Board. She is currently retired and living in Charters Settlement.

Curtis, Wayne: - Wayne Curtis (b. 1945) divides his time between Newcastle, New Brunswick, and Fredericton. He is the author of several books of essays about fishing, fishermen and the Miramichi River, two story collections, Preferred Lies (Nimbus, 1998) and River Stories (Nimbus, 2000), and two novels, One Indian Summer (Goose Lane, 1994), the source of "Heavy Ice," and Last Stand (Nimbus, 1999).

Underhill, Doug: - Doug Underhill's stories have appeared in The Times Transcript, Atlantic Progress, Maritime Sportsman, and in several books, including Miramichi Fishing Stories.

Gleason, Dan: - Dan Gleason taught in the History Department from 1970 to 2000. He taught in the Writing Program and, as a photographer, documented many important university events, including Theatre St. Thomas productions and the construction of Sir James Dunn Hall. Now retired and living in Fredericton, he enjoys painting, gardening, cooking, volunteering, and kayaking.

MacDonald, Marylea: - Marylea MacDonald (d. 2008) taught French from 1995 to 2004 and was director of the ESL Program from 2004 to 2007. She was passionate about gardening, travel, conversation, and French. Her translation into English of Paul Chanel Malenfant's Des ombres port?es/If This Were Death was published by Guernica in 2009.

Mundle, Frederick: - Frederick Mundle majored in Psychology and graduated with a BA in 1978. In the same year, he won the Edwin Flaherty Prize in Creative Writing. He has published poetry in a wide assortment of journals, and, under the pseudonym babalabean, a series of children's books. He currently lives in Dalhousie, where he is a senior pastor at Victory Lighthouse.

Drew, Lorna: - Following a 20-year career as a nurse, Lorna Drew changed directions and became a writer and lecturer. She teaches at St. Thomas University in Fredericton.

Rio, Nela: - Nela Rio taught Spanish in the Romance Languages Department from 1971 until her retirement in 2003. She has published many collections of poetry and prose, and her work has been included in anthologies, journals, and university courses in Spain and the Americas. Her work has been translated into English, French, and Portuguese. She is also a visual artist, having produced seven artist books and an award-winning DVD, Francisca. In May 2008, a symposium on her work was held in Gatineau, Quebec, with participants from five countries. She lives in Fredericton.

Vipond, Douglas: - Douglas Vipond joined the psychology department in 1977. He taught in the writing program and has published a number of articles and reviews on reading and writing, many of them with Russ Hunt. He co-edited special issues of Poetics and Textual Studies in Canada and has written two books: Writing and Psychology (Praeger, 1993) and Success in Psychology: Writing and Research for Canadian Students (Harcourt, 1996).

Hunt, Russell: - Russell A. Hunt joined the English department in 1968. He co-authored K.C. Irving: The Art of the Industrialist (M&S, 1973) and has published journalism and scholarship in a wide range of journals and collections. He was a founder of the alternative journal the Mysterious East and of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning. On campus, he participated in the creation of the writing program, the Learning and Teaching Development Office, and the first-year interdisciplinary Aquinas Program.

Profitt, Norma Jean: - Norma Jean Profitt has been a member of the Social Work Department since 1999. She has written articles concerning women's issues, social justice, and education in both English and Spanish. Her book Women Survivors, Psychological Trauma, and the Politics of Resistance (Haworth) was published in 2000. She continues to visit and write about Costa Rica.

Valery, Jill: - Jill Valery taught French from 1966 until her retirement in 2000. She has had a number of non-fiction pieces published in the Globe and Mail. She translated Nela Rio's Sustaining the Gaze: When Images Tremble from Spanish to French (Broken Jaw, 2004), and for the journal ellipse, she translated other work from English to French. She lives in Fredericton, where she is currently working on a book of short fiction.

Richards, David Adams: - David Adams Richards is a resident of Fredericton and is one of only three Canadian writers who have won Governor General's Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction. His novel Mercy Among the Children won the 2000 Giller Prize, while his most recent novel, Incidents in the Life of Marcus Paul, won the 2012 Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

Cogswell, Fred: - Fred Cogswell (d. 2004) was a poet, UNB professor, editor, translator, and mentor to many aspiring writers. A long-serving editor of The Fiddlehead and founder of Fiddlehead Poetry Books, he was the author of more than twenty books of verse. With Jo-Anne Elder, he translated Climats and Conversations by Herménégilde Chiasson and edited and translated Rêves inachevés / Unfinished Dreams (Goose Lane, 1990), an anthology of contemporary Acadian poets.

Curtis, Wayne: - Wayne Curtis was born in Keenan, New Brunswick, on the banks of the Miramichi River. He was educated at the local schoolhouse and at St. Thomas University. He started writing prose in the late 1960s. His essays have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Outdoor Canada, Fly Fishermen, and the Atlantic Salmon Journal.

Lee, Philip: -

A journalist, lecturer, and bestselling writer, Philip Lee began his career as an investigative reporter on Canada's east coast. Restigouche emerged from his long-standing interest in rivers and the people who love them. His first book, Home Pool: The Fight to Save the Atlantic Salmon, grew out of his award-winning reporting on the decline of the Atlantic salmon. Lee is also the author of Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna, a national bestseller, and Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man, which was long-listed for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.

A professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Lee developed the Dalton Camp lecture series, broadcast annually by CBC Radio's Ideas and edited The Next Big Thing (a published collection from the lectures). When he is not writing and teaching, Lee spends as much time as he can following the currents of rivers.

Chiasson, Herménégilde: - Herménégilde Chiasson is one of Canada's most accomplished writer-artists. He is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, over 30 plays, and several collections of essays. A multi-disciplinary artist, he has received numerous awards for his work, including the Governor General's Award for poetry, the Molson Prize, le prix France-Acadie, le Grand prix de la francophonie canadienne, the prestigious Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Prix littéraire Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie. From 2003 to 2009, he served as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.