Volume 26:1

"All the stories in this issue of Room of One's Own address themes of life and death, illness and love. More important, they talk about the significance of choices. Whether it's deciding how to live, or how to die, or what to have for lunch, it is never too late to take a chance - only we can determine what makes our lives worth living."

-- Zoya Harris, editor

Genevieve Pfeiffer retired from her full time teaching career in 1999, and since then has found herself pursuing her interest and passion for art on an equally full time basis. She has participated in workshops at the Sunshine Coast Summer School of the arts, has taken private lessons and is currently a member of a life drawing group.

Shannon Kernaghan is the author of Like Minds (short fiction) and How to Sell Your Home Privately (self help). Her work has aired on CBC Radio's Alberta Anthology and has appeared in Outskirts: Women Writing from Small Places (Sumach Press), Other Voices, Filling Station and more. She lives in Red Deer, Alberta, and writes a weekly column for the Red Deer Advocate.

Sherry MacDonald is working on her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She is a playwright and a filmmaker and the mother of three boys. Sherry lives in Vancouver.

Jalina Mhyana lives with her wonderful husband and daughters in a small town in northern Japan where she owns and directs A Touch of Calm, the first American massage therapy college in Japan.

Born in Kelowna, British Columbia and now living in Vancouver, Carol Ogden completed an MA (Rhetoric and Composition) in English in April 2002 at the University of British Columbia, where she also studied Creative Writing. As a certified teacher, Carol returned to UBC in 1998 to study English after teaching children with dyslexia for eleven years at an independent school in Vancouver. Carol has always loved poetry and language, and now belongs to a local poetry group, Poets Anonymous Collective. She is currently compiling a collection of her poetry.