Lorina Stephens established her own publishing house, Five Rivers Publishing, in 2008-a direct response to the changing face of publishing. She brings with her over 30 years of experience as a freelance writer, author and editor, and a commitment to publishing new Canadian voices which might otherwise remain silent. She is the author of three novels, a collection of short speculative fiction, two chapbooks of poetry, a cookbook, and a travel guide she wrote with her photographer husband. Her articles have appeared in regional and national print media, and her short fiction in Polar Borealis, On Spec, Neo-Opsis, Postscripts to Darkness, Deluge: Stories of Survival & Tragedy in the Great Flood, Strangers Among Us, and Sword and Sorceress X. In addition to her work in the literary arts, she has been a visual artist all her life, producing work primarily in water colour, but also pen and ink, oil, acrylic and textiles, as well as digital media.
