Nancy HolmesNancy Holmes has published five collections of poetry, most recently The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems. She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems. She is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at The University of British Colmbia in Kelowna, British Columbia. With a colleague, she has established the Eco Art Incubator (http: //ecoartincubator.com ) which supports ecological art in the Okanagan Valley. She also collaborates on an eco art project about native pollinators called Border Free Bees http: //borderfreebees.com/ . Nancy won the 2015 Robert Kroetsch National Teaching Award in Creative Writing for her innovative student project, Dig Your Neighbourhood and she is working on a new book of poetry and a book of essays. Read More Read Less