Theresa Kishkan lives on the Sechelt Peninsula, BC with her husband, John Pass (a poet and winner of the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 2006 and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2012), in a house they built and where they raised their three children.

She has published 16 books, including Euclid’s Orchard, a collection of essays about family history, botany, mathematics and love (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2017); a novella, The Weight of the Heart (Palimpsest Press, 2020); and Blue Portugal and Other Essays (University of Alberta Press, 2022), a collection of lyrical essays.

Her books have been nominated for many awards, including the Hubert Evans Award and the Ethel Wilson Prize. Theresa’s essay collection Phantom Limb received the inaugural Readers’ Choice Award from the Creative Nonfiction Collective in 2008. Thornapple Press will publish The Art of Looking Back: A Painter, an Obsession, and Reclaiming the Gaze, a literary memoir, in May 2026.