Janine Alyson Young
Her work has appeared in Event Magazine and the anthology Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have Breasts. She has an MFA from UBC’s Creative Writing Program (2014) and a BFA from UVic (2009). She is a freelance editor and lives on the Sunshine Coast, BC, with her family. She has appeared at the Festival of Written Arts, Sechelt in 2016.
From ABC BookWorld, "Sunshine Coast-based UBC Creative Writing student Janine Alyson Young was born to backpacking ski bums during the 1980s. As a child, she read every book she could in her local library. Her debut fiction collection Hideout Hotel (Caitlin, 2014) contains several stories of small-town women taking refuge alone, set in coastal BC, the Yukon and Western Australia. It was shortlisted for the annual $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author from among 37 collections submitted. Young was only 28 when the collection appeared, a self-described former Generation Y taco stand operator."
She presented at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 2016.