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Canadian writers take so much for granted. Canada Council programs. Festivals and readings. Cheques arriving from the Public Lending Right Commission and Access Copyright. The Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards. Apparently, some of us believe that these things sprang unbidden from a naturally generous culture, and will always be with us. But they exist thanks mainly to the sustained creative efforts and constant vigilance of The Writers’ Union of Canada. We owe. We owe those who have gone before us, and we owe those who will come after.
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Kate Harris
Kate Harris is a writer with a knack for getting lost. Her writing has been featured in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Arc Poetry Magazine, and The Georgia Review, among other publications, and cited in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. A Rhodes scholar and Morehead-Cain scholar, she was named one of Canada’s top modern-day explorers for her journeys edging the limits of nations, endurance, and sanity. She lives off-grid in a log cabin on the borders of British Columbia, the Yukon, and Alaska. Her first book, the travel memoir Lands of Lost Borders, was published by Knopf in Canada and became a Globe and Mail bestseller. This book is forthcoming with HarperCollins in the USA, with translated editions pending in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.
