Valerie Chelangat
Founder, Tusome Books
As an immigrant who moved from Kenya to Winnipeg with her mother in 2010, Valerie Chelangat, MFA’23, founder of Tusome Books, shudders when she recounts some of the questions and comments she encoun...
Stacey McLeod
Writer
"I have a great great aunt who published two books," Stacey McLeod says. "I never met her, but I know her through her books and the physical record that she left." Stacey is explaining part of the ...
Jenn Thornhill Verma
Journalist, Author
It was by chance that Jenn Thornhill Verma decided to return to King's after over a decade away. "I was flying and saw an advertisement for the MFA program and I had this idea about digging into this ...
Sheima Benembarek
Freelance Journalist and Writer
What does it mean to be a woman with a sexuality? What does it mean, in particular, to be a Muslim woman with sexual desires in this continent? Sheima Benembarek, MFA'20, explores these delicate quest...
Lesley Buxton
Writer
“I used to be a fiction writer but I don’t write fiction anymore,” Lesley Buxton, MFA’16, explains. “I love fiction. I was very close to having a publishable book when my daughter got ill. I...
Catherine Fogarty
President/Executive Producer, Big Coat Media, Story Hunter Podcasts, Writer
Two years before applying to the MFA program at King’s, Catherine Fogarty read an article in the Globe and Mail about a 1971 riot at Kingston Penitentiary, Ontario. It struck her as surprising that ...