Patti
Flather (www.pattiflather.com) is an
award-winning Yukon playwright, theatre artist, writer, and cultural producer. Paradise toured nationally;
a scene is featured in Refractions:
Scenes.
Her first fiction collection is Such A Lovely
Afternoon
(Inanna). Other plays include Sixty Below, West Edmonton Mall, Where the River
Meets the Sea,
and Street Signs (formerly The
Soul Menders). She’s among the co-creators of the Ndoo Tr’eedyaa Gogwaandak—Vuntut Gwitchin Stories radio plays in
Gwich’in and English. Flather co-founded Gwaandak Theatre, which celebrates
Indigenous and Northern theatre stories, and worked twenty years there. A recipient
of the Borealis Prize, she has an MFA
in Creative Writing from UBC. Flather is grateful to live on Kwanlin Dün First
Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council territory in Whitehorse, Yukon.