Saskatchewan native Sharon Thesen lives in BC's Okanagan, and is professor emerita of creative writing at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan in Kelowna. Three of her books have been finalists for the Governor-General's Award for Literature--The Good Bacteria (2006), The Beginning of the Long Dash (1987) and Confabulations (1984), while Oyama Pink Shale (2011) and The Good Bacteria were finalists for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
