This podcast features Western Canadian authors reading from their novels, short fiction, poetry, memoirs, or non-fiction. It is created and hosted by Saskatchewan novelist Lisa Guenther. Reading West is open to featuring published authors from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. For the most part, the podcast focuses on literature, but writers working in other genres are welcome to inquire. For more information on submitting, visit lisaguenther.com/reading-west-podcast/  You can also check out the show on Facebook at www.facebook.com/readingwest/

Theme music is Flax Flower Blue by Best Kept Secret Girlfriend

Katherine Koller writes for stage, screen and page. Her plays include Coal Valley, The Seed Savers and Last Chance Leduc, which won the Alberta Playwriting Competition. Excerpts from her opera, The Handless Maiden, played in Vancouver this year and Hope Soup, for radio, was recorded at the 2019 Edmonton Fringe. Her web documentary, about Edmonton youth changing their world, is at sustainablemeyeg.ca. Art Lessons, her debut novel, was a finalist for both the Edmonton Book Prize and the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. Her new collection of short stories, about second chances, is Winning Chance. Katherinekoller.ca