Theresa Kishkan is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Phantom Limb was nominated for the B.C. Book Prize. She talks to us about the literary essay, or, more correctly, she says, the personal essay or informal essay. The essay, she says, is a more anecdotal and immediate form than fiction.

Born in Victoria, B.C., Theresa Kishkan has lived on both coasts of Canada as well as in Greece, Ireland, and England, and now lives near Pender Island with husband John Pass, winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2006, for his book Stumbling in the Bloom.

Theresa Kishkan and John Pass run High Ground Press, specializing in the letterpress printing and publication of poetry broadsheets and chapbooks.

Listen to Show #36
Theresa Kishkan begins at approximately the 19-minute mark.