Retired faculty
Faculty Emerita
Education
- Sonoma State Gollege, 1970
Fiction, playwriting, personal narrative.
About
Mary Burns is the author of six books, numerous radio and stage plays, documentary film scripts, newspaper and magazine articles.
Faculty Emerita
Education
- PhD, British Columbia
- MA, Simon Fraser
- BA, Washington
English Literature: Early 20th-century poetry and poetics; the British Romantics, Blake, Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe; Thomas Merton
About
Susan McCaslin is an established poet with thirteen published volumes of poetry, a volume of essays, and a memoir. She taught poetry workshops in the Creative Writing Department at Douglas College for ten years. She now gives poetry readings and offers occasional creative writing workshops.
Faculty Emeritus
Education
- MFA, British Columbia
- Dip, David Thompson
Fiction, poetry, personal narrative.
whartonc@emeriti.douglascollege.ca
About
Calvin Wharton is the Chair of the Creative Writing department. His work has been published in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies, and broadcast on CBC radio. He has published a book of poetry, Visualized Chemistry (Tsunami Editions), and co-edited the poetry anthology East of Main (Arsenal Pulp) with Tom Wayman. He also wrote the non-fiction Rowing (Stoddart) with Silken Laumann, and a collection of short fiction, Three Songs by Hank Williams (Turnstone). He was editor of EVENT magazine from 1996 to 2001. His collection of poetry, The Song Collides (Anvil Press) was published in 2011, and a chapbook, The Invention of Birds, appeared as part of the Alfred Gustav press series in May 2014