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Mona Fertig

Mona Fertig is a poet, publisher, editor and founder of The Literary Storefront, Canada’s first literary centre (1978-1985) and Mother Tongue Publishing. She grew up in Vancouver’s Kitsilano and Burnaby and attended the Vancouver School of Art. She has been writing poetry since she was a teenager and has given hundreds of readings in many cities and towns across Canada as well as NYC and San Francisco. Her books of poetry include Mouth for Music (1979), 4722 Rue Berri (1986), Sex, Death & Travel (1998) and The Unsettled (2010), well as The Life and Art of George Fertig (2010). Fertig edited the anthologies Love of the Salish Sea Islands, The Summer Book, and 111 West Coast Literary Portraits (2012). She assisted in curating the George Fertig and Jack Akroyd exhibitions at the Burnaby Art Gallery, and the Unheralded Artists of BC Exhibition at Mahon Hall. She was a founding member of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets, The Federation of BC Writers, the BC Book Prizes, and has been the BC/Yukon Rep of The Writers’ Union of Canada and P.E.N. Canada. In 2016, the Vancouver Public Library honored her as a Literary Landmark. She has lived on Salt Spring Island with her husband Peter Haase, for over 30 years, where they raised two children.

Books by Mona Fertig

Islander

New Poems

by (author) Mona Fertig

The Pocket Guide to the Unheralded Artists of BC Series

The Life and Art of–Jack Akroyd, George Fertig, Mary Filer, Jack Hardman, Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher, LeRoy Jenson, David Marshall, Frank Molnar, Arthur Pitts, Mildred Valley Thornton, Ina D.D. Uhthoff, Harry Webb, Jessie Webb.

edited by Mona Fertig
introduction by Marsha Lederman

A Pocket Guide to The Unheralded Artists of BC Series

The Life and Art of–Jack Akroyd, George Fertig, Mary Filer, Jack Hardman, Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher, LeRoy Jensen, David Marshall, Frank Molnar, Arthur Pitts, Mildred Valley Thornton, Ina D.D. Uhthoff, Harry Webb, Jessie Webb

edited by Mona Fertig
introduction by Marsha Lederman

Love of the Salish Sea Islands

New Essays, Memoir and Poetry by 40 Island Writers

edited by Mona Fertig
introduction by Gail Sjuberg

The Summer Book

A bright collection of creative non-fiction

edited by Mona Fertig

The Life and Art of George Fertig

by (author) Mona Fertig

Rocksalt

An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry

edited by Mona Fertig & Harold Rhenisch

Invoking the Moon

by (author) Mona Fertig

Sex, Death & Travel

by (author) Mona Fertig