Two acclaimed writers reflect on the complexities of identity and legacy in their powerful new works. Join us as moderator Kaile Shilling engages Kate Braid and Charlotte Gill in a rich conversation sure to be filled with tender insights.

Location: Room 485, UBC Robson Square

Type: Panel, Reading, Fiction

Moderator: Kaile Shilling

Readers: Kate Braid, The Erotics of Cutting Grass: Reflections on a Well-Loved Life (Caitlin Press) | Charlotte Gill, Almost Brown (Penguin Random House Canada)

About The Moderator

Kaile Shilling

Kaile is the Free Verse Program Director for Pandora's Collective: she teaches creative writing in prisons because she believes stories can heal. A graduate of The Writers Studio, her writing’s appeared in Pulp Literature, she’s been longlisted for Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest and received an Honorable Mention for the Magpie Award for Poetry. Star Trek TNG is comfort viewing because she believes the future will be awesome and will include aliens speaking in poetry. She lives on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish people.

About The Readers

Kate Braid

Kate Braid’s awards include for the Remarkable Woman of the Arts and Pandora’s Collective BC Mentor’s Awards in Vancouver, and for poetry, the Pat Lowther and Vancity Book Prizes. She has also been writer in residence at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico. Kate has written many books of poetry and creative non-fiction including two memoirs of her fifteen years as a carpenter, Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World, and Hammer & Nail: Notes of a Journeywoman. She currently lives on Pender Island and in Victoria, BC.

Charlotte Gill

Charlotte Gill was born in London and raised in the United States and Canada. Her latest book, Almost Brown, a mixed-race family memoir, is published by Penguin Random House. She is also the author of Eating Dirt, a national bestseller that won the B.C. National Award for Canadian Nonfiction. This title was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and the RBC Taylor Prize. Her previous book, Ladykiller, was a Governor General’s Award nominee. Her fiction and narrative nonfiction have appeared in Vogue, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Lit Hub, The Walrus and many other newspapers and magazines. Gill is a Cohort Director in the Journalism, Writing & Publishing Program at the University of King’s College. She lives on the Sunshine Coast.