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Executive Directors
Executive Director/Founding Member -
Bonnie Nish is founder of Twisted Poets Open Mic. She is
also the co-founder of Under the Elephant an open mic night, and Pandora's
Collective and The Kitsilano Writing Group both writing collectives
in Vancouver BC. A captivating storyteller, Bonnie allows us to see the
world in a slightly unique way, presenting a refreshing view of life through
her poetry. Published widely throughout North America you may view some of
her work (both poetry, prose and book reviews) in the anthologies, "Undercurrents,"
and "Quills," and on-line at luluzine.com, hackwriters.com and greenboathouse.com.
In September 2001, Bonnie's poem "Don Quixote's Love Song," a grand prize winner
in the Artist's Embassy International Dancing Poetry Contest, was performed at the
California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Bonnie has her BA in
English Literature from the University of Toronto.
Bonnie's Extended Resume
www.angelfire.com/art/bonnienish/
Executive Director/Founding Member -
Sita Carboni is co-founder of the Kitsilano Writers Group, Under the
Elephant open mic and Pandora's Collective Outreach Society. Her love for
life has made her a mainstay in the local poetry community as a writer,
reader and promoter of the arts. She has been featured throughout the
Lower-mainland at various events including the North Shore Writers Festival,
Poets Nuit, First Tuesday Assembly of Poets, The World Poetry Readings Series
and Radio Show, Wax Poetics, the BeehiveArts and Word on the Street. You can
find her work in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Symphonies-an Anthology of
World Poetry, and on lululemon’s on-line magazine, luluzine. Sita is a
Vancouver resident presently living in the West End with her boyfriend Mike
and their three cats. She enjoys the creativity of authors such as Salmon
Rushdie, Jose Saramago, Mark Hadden, Joy Kogawa, Anne Michaels and Barbara Gowdy.
Sita's Extended Resume
View the Pandora's Collective Constitution.
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