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Victor Cicansky (Czekanski) was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. He completed a Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1964, and a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1967. In 1970 Cicansky received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Davis. Cicansky also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Art at Deere Isle, Maine.

In addition to teaching at the University of Regina for over 20 years, Cicansky has taught courses at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the University of California at Davis and the Banff Centre of Fine Arts. He has also presented various workshops, lectures and slide presentations across Canada.

Cicansky’s sculptures and wall murals have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in public and commercial galleries across Canada, the United States, England, France and China. He has been a member of several Canada Council and other art competition juries and has also served on the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery Board, the Wascana Centre Arts Advisory Committee, and the Applied Arts Advisory Committee of the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Woodland Campus in Prince Albert.

Vic Cicansky retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of Regina Department of Visual Arts in 1994 and in 2007 received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Regina.

Victor Cicansky’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, Japan, and Europe.

His clay and bronze sculptures, often describing cultural, agricultural and historical circumstances of the Canadian prairies, are represented in collections at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Fine Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo — just to name a few.

Some of his commissioned works have include pieces created for the City of Regina, Government of Saskatchewan, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the 1976 Olympic Games and in 1989 for the provincial visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York.

Victor is the recipient of many Canada Council grants and has won awards such as the Victoria and Albert Award for Ceramic Sculpture, the California Kingsley Annual Award for Sculpture and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

In 2009 his many contributions to the arts, as a sculptor, an educator and mentor were recognized as he was named a member of the Order of Canada. Victor Cicansky passed away on March 3, 2025 .

Coteau Books was established in 1975 as the book division of the Thunder Creek Publishing Co-operative. The other arm, Caragana Records, released three vinyl albums in the 1970s before discontinuing operation. Coteau Books was set up as a non-profit publishing co-operative whose key goal was to publish prairie and Canadian writing, poetry, fiction, songs, plays, and children's books. The name Coteau is taken from the Missouri Coteau, an elevation of land that exists to the north, west and south of Moose Jaw.

All originally from Moose Jaw, Coteau's four founding board members, Barbara Sapergia, Geoffrey Ursell, Robert Currie, and Gary Hyland, were responsible for editing and production, with the assistance of one person hired to handle orders. By 1983, Coteau had moved its main office to Regina, and hired a managing editor and two additional employees. The four original board members were joined by seven others in 1978 and 1983. In 1988, Gary Hyland quit the Co-operative to concentrate on his own writing. The Board of Directors still contains three of the original members of the Thunder Creek Publishing Co-operative: Sapergia, Ursell, and Currie. Other members of the Board have changed since 1983; the Board is self-appointing and has no fixed terms of service, with some members choosing to take leaves of absence, and others resigning after varying periods of time. Executive Board positions change every year.

These papers were generated and collected by Coteau Books and include files pertaining to authors and other artists, publishers, and professional and governmental organizations which maintained a relationship with Coteau. The papers also reflect the growth of Coteau Books from a small provincial co-operative operated by its members, to an established, staff-run, nation-wide book publisher. Of special note are the annual production of 14 to 16 new books, frequent award attention for its titles, and the large quantity of manuscripts in various stages of production.

Saros Cowasjee was born in Secundrabad, India, in 1931. Educated at the Universities of Agra (M.A., 1955) and Leeds, UK, (Ph.D. 1960), he came to teach English at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, the forerunner of the University of Regina, in 1963. Prior to that he worked as a Lecturer in English at Agra College, Agra 1955-57) and Assistant Editor with the Times of India Press (1961-63).

Cowasjee joined Regina Campus as an instructor and was promoted to full professor in 1971. He retired in 1995 and was appointed Professor Emeritus.

During his long teaching career, Cowasjee spent a semester at Darwin College, Cambridge, a sabbatical as Research Associate at University of Berkeley, California, and another sabbatical as Professor of Commonwealth Literature at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He has presented papers and been a guest lecturer at several universities in Europe, Australia, North America, Fiji and India.

Cowasjee has been a prolific writer. His publications include five books of criticism, two novels, two volumes of short stories and a screenplay. In addition to these he has edited and written introductions to some thirty titles on Indian and Raj fiction. There are also his research articles published as chapters in books and in various journals and magazines in Canada, Great Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere.

Of particular interest in the extensive documentation is his research and writing on the Irish playwright Sean O’Casey and the Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand. The collection contains substantial correspondence with Anand covering over thirty years. His detailed correspondence with various publishers provides insight into the writing and editing process and the business of book publishing.

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.