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Ed Farolan Founding Editor

Ed has a PhD in Communications from Bowling Green State University. He has edited a number of literary journals and magazines in English and Spanish. He has published five collections of poetry and written stage and screen plays as well as reviews. His one-act play, The Caged Dream, was produced at the Vancouver Fringe in 1993, and his historical drama Rizal (1997) was published by International Readers' Theatre. His book of Spanish and English poems Itinerancias (Comings and Goings) was launched by Carayan Press in San Francisco in 2006 and more recently in 2007 by the Instituto Cervantes.


J H Stape Webmaster

A professional editor and writer, John holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto and has taught at universities in Canada, France, and the Far East. He is internationally known as a scholar of Joseph Conrad. He has attended opera in Australia, Europe, the Far East, and the United States and Canada. His passion for theatre and music has been indulged in London, Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Stratford-upon-Avon and the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the Lake.


John Anthony Jane Co- Webmaster

Born and raised in England, John earned a diploma in mechanical engineering while serving an apprenticeship with an engineering firm. In 1969, he immigrated to South Africa, initially residing in Johannesburg. Moving to Durban, he found freelance employment on mining projects as a technical translator and specification writer. After three years there, he decided to try his luck in Canada. Offered a job as a machinery designer, he learned to write assembly instructions and training manuals and has been involved in numerous engineering projects in Canada, Southeast Asia, and the US, bettering his skills in business and technical writing. John has also taught at Harbin University of Science and Technology in China. He works in Vancouver as a freelance engineer.


Patricia Fleming

Born and raised in London, Patricia has lived for lengthy periods in Australia, the USA, Germany, and Vancouver. She has had a successful career in marketing, sales, coaching, and as a teacher and facilitator. She studied Fine Arts and movie-making in Canada and California and has a keen interest in literature and film history, and in 2002, narrated Orphans in Paradise, a documentary film co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Patricia has interviewed many writers, including Arthur Golden who wrote the best-selling Memoirs of a Geisha and the famous crime writer Michael Connolly.


Erin Jane

Erin was born in Ontario and moved to North Vancouver at a young age with her sister and parents. Excelling in reading and writing, you could usually find her off in a corner somewhere with a book. Erin went on to graduate from UBC with an Arts degree, and spends her time playing keyboards for a couple of local bands including Cinderpop and The Neins Circa. When not reading, writing, playing, or listening to music, she is usually nurturing a small hamster, playing beer league softball, or maximizing search engine optimization for websites.


Elizabeth Paterson

A professional librarian, Elizabeth is in charge of creating web-based catalogues for libraries in the Burnaby School District. She has lived and worked in England and in London, Ontario, where she studied Classics and English at the University of Western Ontario. She plays recorder with the Pastime Consort, reads avidly, and attends as many concerts, operas, and plays as possible.

recent reviews Festival Vancouver: Rameau's Pygmalion | Festival Vancouver: The Apotheosis of the French Baroque | Berkshire Choral Festival | Vancouver Opera: Faust | Vancouver Symphony: Dido and Aeneas


Susan Peake

Susan has the distinction of being a true Vancouverite – born and raised. She holds a MSc in TESOL (Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and has spent most of the past eight years teaching/coordinating for Capilano College in Mainland China. She is currently teaching in both the ESL and the Communications Departments at Capilano College in North Vancouver. She began attending musicals and live theatre as a child, developing an appreciation for the art form that continues today.

Jane Penistan

Born and brought up in London, Jane moved to Canada in 1949, settling in Ontario, and, with her husband, took part in the founding of the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford. She continued to work for the festival for ten years. When her five children were grown up, Jane "retired" to Vancouver, where she earned both a BA and MA in English from UBC. She is both a theatre and opera enthusiast.

Ross Michael Pink

Ross studied Film and Politics at the University of British Columbia and earned an MA at McGill University. He has worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent in India, interviewing several international figures (Mikhail Gorbachev, Astronomer David Levy, and Soviet astronaut, Georgi Grechkov). He wrote and directed a TV documentary about Streetchildren and AIDS in Bombay, broadcast in several countries. His most recent TV documentary was filmed in Thailand in 2001. He has completed two novels and three screenplays, one on the rights situation of "Comfort Women" during the Second World War.


Barry Arnett

Barry is a rare individual, having been born and raised in Vancouver. He has had a lifetime love of great music, dance and theatre, having seen such jazz greats as Billy Eckstein, Sarah Vaughn, Dave Brubeck, and Ella Fitzgerald. He attended Coalinga College, California, on a baseball scholarship and earned a degree in electrical engineering at the University of California. He has spent 35 years in the business computing field in Toronto and Vancouver. He recently spent two years teaching at a university in Northern China, but is now semi-retired, working part time with Northern and Indian Affairs on the Provincial Residential School Project Response Plan.

recent reviews Festival Vancouver: Adrian Iaies | Festival Vancouver: Duo Brazil | Vancouver Jazz Festival: Altered Laws


David Powell

David on graduating from UBC in 1987 with a BA in French moved to Montreal, gaining a BMus from L'Université de Montréal and playing cello in L'Orchestre Baroque de Montréal from 1992 to 1994. On returning to Vancouver, he began teaching music theory, preparing students for Royal Conservatory of Music exams. At that time he also began choral singing, joining a variety of groups, including the Vancouver Cantata Singers, the Vancouver Bach Choir, and the Vancouver Thunderbirds Barbershop Chorus. He currently sings with the Gallery Singers, occasionally plays his cello, and performs in amateur musicals and theatre productions. He works as a librarian for the Burnaby School District.

recent reviews Early Music Vancouver: Mediæval Prophecies & Laments