Dave Margoshes, President
 Dave Margoshes is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Regina. His stories and poems are widely published in literary magazines and anthologies throughout North America, and he’s published a dozen books; the most recent, Bix’s Trumpet and Other Stories, won two prizes at the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year. Active in the Saskatchewan and national writing community, he’s led workshops at Sage Hill several times, and been a long-time member of its board.
Holly Borgerson Calder, Secretary
 Holly Borgerson Calder is a bookseller of rare and out-of-print books. She has published poetry.
Tracy Hamon, Director
 Tracy Hamon is a mother, part-time barber/stylist, and the current Program Officer for the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. She holds a MA in English with a creative thesis from the University of Regina and is the founder of the Vertigo Reading Series. Her first book of poetry This Is Not Eden was released in April 2005 and was a finalist for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. She currently lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her manuscript of poetry on Egon Schiele was short listed for the 2007 CBC Literary Awards. Interruptions in Glass, her latest book of poetry is forthcoming with Coteau in April 2010, and portions of her recent collection won the City of Regina Award in 2005. Born in Regina, she currently lives there.
 Helen Mourre, Director
Helen Mourre, until recently, lived on a farm at Sovereign, but has recently relocated to Rosetown where she writes, entertains her grandchildren, gardens, coffees, and goes for long walks. She has written two books of short fiction, both published by Thistledown Press, which were finalists in the Saskatchewan Book Awards. She is a former member of the University of Saskatchewan Senate and has served on the boards of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and also the Sage Hill Board.
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Kathryn Warden, Vice-President
 Kathryn Warden is Director of Research Communications at the University of Saskatchewan where she leads a team that builds profile for U of S research by strategically communicating the findings and impact of U of S research, scholarly and artistic work to target audiences.
In the mid-70s, she had the good fortune to attend the Banff School of Fine Arts creative writing program led by W.O. Mitchell.
A Southam Fellow, she has 25 years of journalism experience, having held a variety of posts at the Calgary Herald, Toronto Star and The StarPhoenix. A vice-president of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association, she serves as an adjudicator for numerous writing competitions and enjoys mentoring student journalists who produce an annual student research series for The StarPhoenix newspaper.
Brian Gladwell, Treasurer
David Sealy-Director
 David writes plays, poetry, fiction and non-fiction. He has been published in literary journals and anthologies. His play Life’s Like That was part of the Saskatchewan Playwright Centre’s Spring Festival of New Plays. His play I Married a Dishrag (renamed Runaway Barbies) was workshopped and read at Lunchbox Theatre’s Petro-Canada Stage One Festival in 2003. A portion of this play won Grain Magazine’s Short Grain Dramatic Monolog in 2002. He was runner-up for the City of Regina Writing Award in 2005. His latest play, The Bob Shivery Show, received a workshop and a staged reading as part of PlayWorks Ink in Calgary in 2009.
Sandra Birdsell, Director
 Sandra Birdsell is a writer of short stories, novels and an editor of fiction. She has published eight books, among them the bestselling novel The Russländer, nominated for the Giller Prize. Her novel The Chrome Suite and book of short stories, The Two-Headed Calf, were nominated for the Governor General Award. Her most recent novel, Children of the Day, is published by Random House of Canada.
Photo Credit: Don Hall
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