Kristjana Gunnars
Kristjana Gunnars is the author of five cross–generic prose books from Red Deer Press, including The Prowler and The Substance of Forgetting. She is also the author of several books of poetry, including Exiles Among You and Silence of the Country. Her books of short stories are The Axe's Edge and The Guest House. Gunnars has been a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alberta since 1990, and is no living on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Her most recent book is essays on writers and writing, Stranger at the Door. She has been awarded the McNally Robinson Award for Fiction, the Stephan G. Stephannson Award for Poetry, and the George Bugnett Award for Fiction. Her book Zero Hour was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction.