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Lorna Crozier was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1948. She graduated from W.A. Beatty Collegiate in Swift Current in 1966, studied at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (now the University of Regina), and obtained her Bachelor of Arts in 1969. She received a Master of Arts from the University of Alberta in 1980. In addition to her university education, she attended creative writing courses at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts at Fort San (1974-1977), and took courses in Advanced Writing and Speech Writing from the Public Service Commission.

Crozier taught high school English in rural Saskatchewan from 1970 to 1973, and taught English at the University of Regina (1976), the University of Alberta (1978-1979), and the University of Saskatchewan (1986-1991). She has been Associate Professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria since 1991 and became a Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria in 2002.

Lorna has been writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto (1988, 1989-1990), Douglas College, British Columbia (1989), the University of Lethbridge (1987), and the Regina Public Library (1984-1985), among others.

She has published 15 books of poetry and her poems have been included in dozens of journals and magazines. Crozier's work has also been featured in numerous anthologies, and her poetry and writing have resulted in her winning many prizes, such as First Prize in the CBC Radio National Poetry Competition (1987), the Western Magazine Award for Nonfiction (1989), the Governor General's Award for Poetry (1992) for Inventing the Hawk, the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry (1995). She has received two Pat Lowther Awards for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, a Canadian Author’s Association Award and a Dorothy Livesay Award. She has also published a memoir, Small Beneath the Sky.

Crozier has conducted many readings and has lectured widely in Canada and the United States, as well as England, the former Yugoslavia, France, Chile, Africa and Australia. She has been heavily involved in the writers profession, and has served on various juries and judging panels.

Crozier has Honorary Doctorates for her contributions to Canadian Literature from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina. In 2009 she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada.

Crozier currently resides outside of Victoria with her husband, poet Patrick Lane.

Patrick Lane was born at Nelson, British Columbia on March 26, 1939 and attended high school in Vernon, British Columbia. He has written more than 20 books and is considered to be one of the foremost Canadian writers of his generation. He has held Writer-in-Residence positions across Canada and has published around the world.

Lane is associated with numerous professional writing associations and committees. He has received grants from the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, Saskatchewan Arts Board and the British Columbia Arts Council. His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have been translated widely and he has received many awards and prizes for them. Lane has been a critic and commentator appearing regularly on CBC and other numerous media.

Biographical Sketch: Professor, Wes D. Pearce was born in Regina, Saskatchewan (Treaty 4 territory) in 1965 and graduated from Scott Collegiate in 1983. He then earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Regina in 1988, a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction in 1992 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary in 1996. After working as a freelance designer and teaching as a sessional at the University of Calgary he returned to the University of Regina in 1997 as an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department. The return to his alma mater coincided with the opening of the new Riddell Centre on the University of Regina Main Campus.

In 2003 he served six months as Department Head (Acting) of the Theatre Department, served as the Department Head of Theatre (2006 – 2009), Associate Dean (Undergraduate) for the Faculty of Fine Arts [later the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance] (2010 – 2018), and Associate Dean (Interdisciplinary Programs and Special Projects) for the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance (2018 – 2020). He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and to Full Professor in 2014.

Since 1997 he has developed and taught dozens of courses in the areas of costume and/or set design, scenography, Canadian Theatre, and popular culture. Along with Professor David Garneau, and Drs. Stephen McClatchie and Christine Ramsay he developed and offered the first interdisciplinary course in the Faculty of Fine Arts. He later collaborated on courses with Dr. Pauline Minevich and many years later he still teaches a version of the class they developed on musical theatre.

With varied research interests he has presented at dozens of conferences and has published on an equally wide variety of topics including the playwright Sharon Pollocks scenographic imagination, Sharon Pollock’s use of domestic space, elements of prairie gothic in Daniel Macdonald’s MacGregor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas, Same-sex celebrity gossip and homophobia in theatre. In 2013 he and Jean Hillabold co-edited Out Spoken: Perspectives on Queer Identities (University of Regina Press).

As a professional scenographer he has over twenty design credits for Regina’s Globe Theatre, several productions for both Persephone Theatre (Saskatoon) and Stage West (Calgary) as well as Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops), Alberta Theatre Projects (Calgary) and Prairie Theatre Exchange (Winnipeg). Selected world premieres include Us: A Coming In Musical Globe Theatre (Set and Costume Design) [2018], Key Change Globe Theatre (Set and Costume Design) [2017], The King Stag University of Regina (Costume Design) [2012], Radiant Boy University of Regina (Costume Design) [2010], MacGregor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas Persephone Theatre (Set and Costume Design) [2005] and Woyzeck University of Regina (Set Design) [2002]. Other productions of note include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Persephone Theatre (Costume Design) [2007] which was the first production in the brand new Rawlco Radio Hall, the first regional theatre production of Elizabeth Rex Globe Theatre (Costume Design) [2002], the 25th Anniversary production of Cruel Tears Globe Theatre (Costume Design) [1999] and The Admirable Crichton University of Regina (Costume Design0 [1997] which was the first production in the new University Theatre. His peers have honoured him with four nominations for the Saskatoon and Area Theatre Award and two nominations for Calgary’s Betty Mitchell Award all for outstanding costume design.

He has sat on the board of directors for Regina’s Globe Theatre, Saskatchewan Association of Professional Theatre Artists, Saskatchewan Drama Association, Mid America Theatre Conference, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Associated Designers of Canada, AIDS Programs South Saskatchewan and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association.

Brian Stockton was born in North Battleford in 1964 and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan. He began his media career as a broadcaster with CKCK Radio in Regina and in 1984 was hired by Ron MacLean, then program director at CKRD Radio in Red Deer, Alberta.

After his time in Red Deer, Brian returned to Regina and attended the University of Regina where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in film and Video studying under Professor Jean (Hans) Oser, a key figure in the early sound cinema of Europe. As a student at York University, Brian earned an MFA in film production and was a director resident at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre. While at the CFC he wrote and directed the “The Weight of the World” in 1994, which was a multi-award winning short film that screened at numerous international festivals and was aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States.

Stockton has created a number of short films: notably the animated short film The Blob Thing, which spawned numerous short sequels that have been shown on television and at festivals around the world. Brian worked with his grandmother on the short film The Final Gift (1990), which was recognized as one of the ten best short films at the Ann Arbor Film Festival by Los Angeles Film Forum.

Stockton has also worked on a series of autobiographical short films The Epic Story of My Life, which have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. This series includes Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Part 2 (That’s My Wonderful Town), which won the grand jury prize for best documentary at the Temecula Valley Film Festival in California.

Stockton moved back to Regina after living in Toronto for nine years. He has taught filmmaking at workshops across Canada and was an innovative instructor at the University of Regina. Brian was invited to screen a program of his short films at the Idaho International Film Festival, where he created the Instant Animation Workshop. Participants of this workshop wrote, prepared, and shot a stop-motion animated film in one afternoon. He retired from the University of Regina film department as an Associate Professor in 2022. Brian Stockton is currently the co-host of The Clean Energy Show podcast, which began in 2020 and has been releasing weekly episodes since then.