Visions of the Crow

About Wanda John-Kehewin

Wanda John-Kehewin (she her hers) is a Cree writer who uses her work to understand and respond to the near destruction of First Nations cultures languages and traditions. When she first arrived in Vancouver on a Greyhound bus she was a pregnant nineteen-year-old carrying little more than a bag of chips a bottle of pop thirty dollars and hope. After many years travelling (well mostly stumbling) along her healing journey Wanda brings her personal experiences to share with others. Now a published poet and fiction author she writes to stand in her truth and to share that truth openly. She calls Coquitlam home until the summertime when she treks to the Alberta prairies to visit family and learn more about Cree culture and tradition. Hopeless in Hope is her first novel for young adults. nicole marie burton (she they) is a comics artist and childrens book illustrator living on unceded Algonquin land. Born in the US and now based in Ontario she is a founding member of the Ad Astra Comix publishing collective. nicoles work focuses on comics with social justice themes including topics from Canadian history to the science of climate change. Her published works include The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet The Boy Who Walked Backwards and a chapter in the anthology Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle. Kielamel Kiela Sibal (she her) is a Filipino Canadian letterer graphic designer cartoonist writer and illustrator. She is passionately curious about the craft of different storytelling methods from comics and video games to film and illustration. Born in Pampanga Philippines Kiela currently conducts her sparkling antics of wizardry in Winnipeg Manitoba.