Roger Epp is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He served as founding Dean of the University's Augustana Campus in Camrose from 2004 to 2011. Much of his recent writing has explored what it means to live in the prairie West with a sense of memory, inheritance, and care. He is author of We are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays (2008), co-editor of Writing Off the Rural West (2001) and co-producer of the documentary "The Canadian Clearances" for CBC Radio Ideas.

Rhonda Harder Epp is a painter whose work is held in private and institutional collections. Her work has been shown in galleries across western Canada.

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"I admire not only the dean that comes through in those poems, but the person. Roger Epp is a very fine writer; the pieces are soulful and wonderful. I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed them." George Justice, Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University