Ryeberg Curators

Kim Thuy
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Kim Thuy's first novel, "Ru," which fictionalizes her family's long journey from Vietnam to Québec and their discovery of their new environment, won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire at the Salon du livre in Paris, and the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award. She is also the author of "Man" and co-author of "À toi." In addition to writing novels, Kim has earned degrees in linguistics and translation and law, and worked as a farm hand, seamstress, cashier, and cook. More Kim Thuy here.Go to curator page
Miriam Toews
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Miriam Toews is the author of six novels. These include "A Complicated Kindness," "The Flying Troutmans" and "Irma Voth." Her most recent novel is called "All My Puny Sorrows." She has also published a work of non-fiction — "Swing Low: A Life" — about her father's struggle with manic depression and suicide. Photo: Carol LoewenGo to curator page

Micah Toub
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Micah Toub is a writer living in Toronto, Canada. His memoir, Growing Up Jung: Coming-of-age as the Son of Two Shrinks, is published by W.W. Norton and Doubleday Canada. A National Magazine Award-winning journalist, he was also a longtime relationship columnist for The Globe and Mail and his writing has appeared in The Walrus, Canadian Family, Psychology Today, and Maisonneuve. He has worked as an editor at The Globe and Mail and Toro Magazine. For more Micah Toub, go here.Go to curator page
Peter Trachtenberg
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Peter Trachtenberg is the author of "Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons," "Seven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh"(Crown, 1997) and "The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning" (Little, Brown 2008), a book that combines reportage, memoir, and moral philosophy to explore suffering and its narratives. It won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. More Peter Trachtenberg here.Go to curator page

Masha Tupitsyn
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Masha Tupitsyn is the author of "LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film"(ZerO Books, 2011), "Beauty Talk & Monsters," a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology "Life As We Show It: Writing on Film" (City Lights, 2009). Her fiction and criticism has appeared in the anthologies "Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century" (2008) and the "Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K" (2010). For more Masha Tupitsyn, go "here.Go to curator page
Michael Turner
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Michael Turner is a Vancouver-based writer of fiction, criticism and song. His books include "Hard Core Logo," "The Pornographer’s Poem," "Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs" and "8x10." A frequent collaborator, Turner has written scripts with Stan Douglas, poems with Geoffrey Farmer and a libretto with Andrea Young. Curatorial projects include “To show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver, 1954-1969" (SFU Gallery) and "Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry" (Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC). For more Michael Turner, go here.Go to curator page

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