Brenda Niskala

Brenda Niskala is a poet, fiction writer and currently the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Publishers Group. Her novella Of All the Ways to Die was published by Quattro Books in Fall 2009; her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and literary journals. Her poetry has been published in two chapbooks, What Butterflies do at Night (2005, BPrint Editions) and Emma’s Horizon (2000, Hagpapers), one co-authored collection, Open 24 Hours (1997, Broken Jaw Press), and a book of poetry, Ambergris Moon (1983, Thistledown Press).

Brenda has taught Creative Writing for the University of Regina Extension Department, the Living Sky Festival of Words Teen Camp and the Sage Hill Writing Experience Teen Camp. She has read her work to audiences in nine provinces, and in Finland and England. Saskatchewan born and raised, she currently makes her home in Regina.