A poetry collection full of the betweenwheres of things. Within its four directions/sections, the speaker is storm, a moonroad, the chiaroscuro of light and shadow, and the daughter of a people who have experienced homelessness and who have built houses, and who have made homes migrating from Germany to Russia and Poland to Canada. Between two poles, between sea, river, lake, emotion, light and shadow, the bodies of man and woman, these poems comprise a map of longing and belonging, traveling ancestral roads and moonroads to the present moment, and toward the last compass point of the spiritual wayfarer.

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MA, MFA, poet, author of non-fiction, instructor of creative writing, Connie Braun has involvements and interests that span arts, education, social justice, and peace, and (more recently) a small vineyard, pursuits that seem a perfect blend. Her publications include the memoir The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia (Ronsdale) and the creative non-fiction book Silentium: And Other Reflections On Memory, Sorrow, Place, and the Sacred (Wipf and Stock). She and Erwin enjoy hiking trips, train travel, exploring wine regions, and spending time with their children and grandchildren.

Connie Braun’s family immigrated to British Columbia, to the Sumas Prairie, and she was born and raised in Clearbrook, which no longer exists. She lived in Abbotsford before moving to Vancouver and, throughout her life, has spent time in the Okanagan.

The places she has called home are located on the traditional ancestral unceded shared territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations; the Sumas First Nation and Matsqui First Nation; and ancestral unceded lands of the Syilx/Okanagan People.