Tracy Hamon, President
 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. Her manuscript of poetry on Egon Schiele was short listed for the 2007 CBC Literary Awards. Interruptions in Glass, her latest book of poetry has been published by, and portions of her recent collection won the City of Regina Award in 2005. Born in Regina, she currently lives there.
Bernadette Wagner, Secretary
Bernadette Wagner is a poet and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in journals, anthologies, and magazines and on radio, television and film, in schools, on stages, in the streets and on the web. She is a three-time Sage Hill Experient and a long-time participant in the Sask Writers/Artists Colony. Her work has been recognized with an apprenticeship in the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers, a Saskatchewan Arts Board Individual Assistance Award, and a Canadian Feminist Blog Award. this hot place (Thistledown Press, 2010) is her first book and has been shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award.
 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.
Rhett A. T. Soveran, Director
Holly Borgerson Calder, Director
Holly Borgerson Calder is a bookseller of rare and out-of-print books. She has published poetry.
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Sandra Birdsell, Vice President
 Sandra Birdsell is a writer of short stories, novels and an editor of fiction. Her latest novel Waiting for Joe was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction as well as the Regina Book Award. 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 novel, Children of the Day, was published by Random House of Canada. She is a Member of Order of Canada.
Photo Credit: Don Hall
Jackie Lay, Treasurer
Jackie Lay is a creative writer, journalist and a communications/promotions specialist. Most recently Jackie was the executive director of the Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her articles have been published in the Regina Leader-Post, the Regina Sun Community News and various rural newspapers throughout Saskatchewan. She has worked for the Canadian Red Cross, the Saskatchewan Publishers Group, the MS Society and for the TV shows Disasters of the Century and Crime Stories as a researcher, interviewer and field producer.
photo courtesy of Brian Cobbledick
 Jeanette Lynes, Director
Jeanette Lynes is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently The New Blue Distance (Wolsak and Wynn) and It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems (Freehand Books). Her first novel, The Factory Voice (Coteau Books) was long-listed for the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a ReLit Award.It was also podcast on CBC Radio's "Between the Covers." Jeanette's poetry has been short-listed for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and a National Magazine Award. She has received the Bliss Carman Poetry Prize and the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Prize. Jeanette has taught at the Sage Hill Writing Experience (Introduction to Poetry and Fiction with Robert Currie, 2006-2008) and the Banff Centre (Writing with Style, 2009). She has been Writer in Residence at Saskatoon Public Library and Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek, BC, as well as a Visiting Writer at the University of Manitoba. She is currently Coordinator of the MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan.
Dave Carpenter , Director
Dave Carpenter was conceived in Saskatoon and born in Edmonton where he grew up on Saskatchewan stories. He moved to Saskatoon in 1975 and began writing the following year. His recent book A Hunter's Confession is the Saskatchewan Book of the Year 2010.
Carpenter’s writing credo is as follows (and it may not apply to poets): Most writers must learn to make a pact with dullness. Not boredom, or lack of imagination or passion, but dullness of routine. Keep your daily appointment with the computer screen and keep your ass on the chair until you’ve reached your daily quota. However rich your inner life may be, seek also the dullard within.
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