Acclaimed poet, writer and historian Meredith Quartermain is known across Canada as a writer of urban spaces and an innovator of narrative forms. Her first book, Vancouver Walking, won the 2006 BC Book Award for Poetry. Her second, Nightmarker, was a finalist for the 2009 Vancouver Book Award and Recipes from the Red Planet was a finalist for the 2011 BC Book Award for fiction. Quartermain is a co-founder of award-winning Nomados Literary Publishers.

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