Awards

• Short-listed for Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards / Nonfiction 2023 (Canada)
• Winner of Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards / Sunshine Coast Voices 2023 (Canada)

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Kishkan's lyrical essays glow with the generosity and poetic grace of a richly perceptive mind. Blue Portugal and Other Essays explores natural and human histories, the veins and rivers of then and now, with fierce and tender insight. An overnight train, a weathered rock, a button, a blueprint, the complications of the human heart--all rendered in beautiful prose. Lorri Neilsen Glenn, author of Following the River: Traces of Red River Women Phantom places resonant with mysterious meaning, dreamy hauntings from half-remembered lives, revenant landscapes fragmented in the prism of memory; the living, the dead; rivers as the veins of life and veins as the rivers of being; migrations through time, geography, and experience; a husband and wife reading Dante's Inferno to each another by firelight and the machinery of medical technology delivering readings from Cancerland--this is just a marvellous book. Theresa Kishkan is amazing. Stephen Hume, author of A Walk with the Rainy Sisters Blue Portugal and Other Essays is forget-me-not powerful, small sparking essays building and building to cacophonies of bright brilliance. Be prepared to be cracked (Crack. CRACK) wide open--raw, vulnerable and moved: you'll then be carefully knitted and quilted back into a transformed whole. Such is the skill of Kishkan's literary craft: she narrates entire, and stunningly well-researched, universes. From the intimately domestic and inner to the bountiful global and beyond, Kishkan takes you by the hand and the heart. She walks with you through her worded worlds and gently restores you back into a revisioned life, days and places you'll never see quite the same way ever again. Gently profound. Richly delicate. Therapeutic and needed. Sarah de Leeuw, author of Where It Hurts

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Theresa Kishkan lives on the Sechelt Peninsula in British Columbia. She has published more than a dozen books, including poetry, fiction, and collections of essays.

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