Contributors

Angie Abdou is an associate professor of creative writing at Athabasca University and a regular book reviewer for Quill and Quire. She has published one short story collection and four novels. Her first novel, The Bone Cage, was a CBC Canada Reads finalist in 2011, defended by NHL star Georges Laraque. The Bone Cage was also chosen for the inaugural One Book One Kootenay in 2009 and as MacEwan University’s 2011/12 Book of the Year. The novel was included on Canadian Literature magazine’s “All-Time Top Ten List of Best Canadian Sport Literature” and was number one on the CBC Book Club’s “Top 10 Sport Books.”

Jason Blake teaches in the English Department at the University of Ljubljana. He is the author of Canadian Hockey Literature and the coeditor of The Same but Different: Hockey in Quebec (2017). His nonhockey books include Culture Smart! Slovenia (2011).

Laura K. Davis teaches English at Red Deer College and holds a PhD from the University of Alberta. Her books include Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada (2017); Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters, coedited with Linda M. Morra (2018), and Essay Writing for Canadian Students, coauthored with Roger Davis (2016).

Jamie Dopp is an associate professor of Canadian literature at the University of Victoria, where he has taught a course in hockey and literature for a number of years. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and scholarly articles have appeared in many journals. He has also published two collections of poetry and a novel. In 2009, he coedited a collection of essays with Richard Harrison titled Now Is the Winter: Thinking About Hockey.

Cara Hedley is the author of Twenty Miles, the first Canadian hockey novel about women players. Twenty Miles was nominated for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and included on the CBC Books “list of Canada’s greatest hockey books.” With a PhD in English literature from the University of Calgary, Hedley is an editor and writing instructor in the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Continuing Education.

Paul Martin splits his time between teaching and writing about the literatures of Canada and serving as MacEwan University’s faculty development coordinator. His book Sanctioned Ignorance: The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of the Literatures of Canada (2013) won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian literary criticism (English).

Fred Mason teaches sport history and sociology in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick. His work ranges across both areas, including the history of parasports and sociological perspectives on ultrarunning. He has research interests in sport in fiction and film, especially science fiction versions of sport.

Sam McKegney is a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. He has published a collection of interviews titled Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood; a monograph titled Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School; and articles on such topics as environmental kinship, masculinity theory, prison writing, Indigenous governance, and Canadian hockey mythologies.

Gyllian Phillips is an associate professor in the English Studies Department at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario. She teaches a first-year course called “Sport in Literature and Film.” Her chapter in this volume is her first foray into sport literature scholarship. Other publications include articles on 1930s British film and on women writers of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as, with Allan Pero, a coedited volume, The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell (2017).

Trevor J. Phillips is a Métis PhD candidate in English literature at Queen’s University. He is the Indigenous graduate student success coordinator at the University of Manitoba, where he hosts the podcast At the Edge of Canada: On Indigenous Research, teaches courses on Indigenous masculinities and literatures, and is the radio voice of Bison’s Hockey.

Cory Willard is working on his PhD in English literary and cultural studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he focuses on ecocriticism, environmental literature, and place studies. His primary interest is fly fishing and fly-fishing literature. When he is not trapped at a desk reading or writing, you can find him streamside.