Ryeberg Curators

Kim Thuy
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Kim Thuy's first novel, "Ru," which fictionalizes her family's long journey from Vietnam to Québec and their discovery of their new environment, won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire at the Salon du livre in Paris, and the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award. She has since written "Mãn," "Vi," "Le secret des Vietnamiennes," "Em," and co-authored "À toi." In addition to writing novels, Kim has earned degrees in linguistics and translation and law, and worked as a farm hand, seamstress, cashier, and cook. She is also the host of "Le Table de Kim." More Kim Thuy here.Go to curator page
Miriam Toews
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Miriam Toews is the author of "A Complicated Kindness," "The Flying Troutmans," "All My Puny Sorrows," "Women Talking," "Fight Night," and other books. She has also published a work of non-fiction — "Swing Low: A Life" — about her father's struggle with manic depression and suicide. Photo: Carol LoewenGo to curator page

Micah Toub
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Micah Toub is a writer living in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Growing Up Jung: Coming-of-age as the Son of Two Shrinks and a National Magazine Award winner. He was a longtime relationship columnist for The Globe and Mail and his writing has appeared in The Walrus, Canadian Family, Psychology Today, and Maisonneuve. He is a senior editor at Reader's Digest.Go to curator page
Peter Trachtenberg
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Peter Trachtenberg's essays have also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, A Public Space, and The New York Times Travel Magazine. He is the author of "Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons," "Seven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh," and "The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning," a book that combines reportage, memoir, and moral philosophy to explore suffering and its narratives; it won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.Go to curator page

Masha Tupitsyn
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Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of "Like Someone in Love," "Love Dog," "LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film," "Beauty Talk & Monsters," a collection of film-based stories and co-editor of the anthology "Life As We Show It: Writing on Film." Her fiction and criticism has appeared in the anthologies "Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century" and the "Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K," and in several other publications such as Bookforum, Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, LitHub, The New Inquiry, and The Rumpus. For more Masha Tupitsyn, go here.Go to curator page
Michael Turner
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Michael Turner is a Vancouver-based writer of fiction, criticism and song. His books include "Hard Core Logo," "The Pornographer’s Poem," "Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs," "8x10," and "9 X 11: And Other Poems Like Bird, Nine, X, and Eleven." A frequent collaborator, Turner has written scripts with Stan Douglas, poems with Geoffrey Farmer and a libretto with Andrea Young. Curatorial projects include “To show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver, 1954-1969" (SFU Gallery) and "Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry" (Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC). For more Michael Turner, go here.Go to curator page

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