Daphne Marlatt is an award-winning poet, dramatist, and novelist. Among her earlier poetry titles are Steveston and Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now.  Her novels include Ana Historic (Coach House 1988, Anansi 2013) and Taken (1996). The Given received the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award. A Pangaea Arts production of her contemporary Canadian Noh play The Gull was awarded the international Uchimura Naoya Prize in 2008 and in 2012 she was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Talonbooks has published Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968-2008 edited by Susan Holbrook. Shadow Catch (Talonbooks, 2023), a Noh-like libretto for chamber opera, has received 2 productions in Vancouver, the first in 2010 and again in 2022.