Board of Directors

Blaine is a playwright, sketch and fiction writer, improviser and sometime engineer.His recent theatre productions include The Kyleness of Kyle and The Thin Grey Line, Cursive Writing Productions; Bravo, Shadow Theatre; Five Stages of Death, Cursive Writing Productions; and Oral Fixations (co-written with author Leslie Greentree), Ignition Theatre. His recent publications include the stories By the Numbers, Freefall Magazine, and Life in a Bottle, University of Bristol 2021 Anthology.

He’s a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, a distant past-president of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and served two terms as president of Alberta Playwrights’ Network.

When not bragging about himself in the third person, he has written sketches for shows you’ve never seen, short stories for magazines and anthologies you’ve never read, and plays for an audience of well under a million people. This, combined with his engineering training, allows him to alter current reality by day while creating alternate realities at night.

Nicolas Brown is a Chartered Professional Accountant, military reservist, and experienced non-profit director. Mr. Brown has over 6 years of accounting & payroll experience, and over 10 years of experience in volunteer and governance roles. As an aspiring author, his current projects include sci-fi, fantasy, and short story collections.

An enthusiastic community volunteer, Mr. Brown enjoys supporting community, sport, and art organizations in Alberta and in the Edmonton area. In addition to serving as Treasurer for the WGA, he currently serves as Chair of the Town of Legal Library Board, Treasurer on the board for the Alberta Equestrian Federation, and as a Director of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. His board experience includes both committee and board chair roles, and he previously served as a Student Member on the NAIT Board of Governors and as President & Chair for both the Canadian University Press and the former Canadian Authors Association – Alberta Branch.

A Bachelor of Business Administration honours graduate from the Northern Alberta Institute of Alberta (NAIT), he is currently attending Cape Breton University’s MBA in Community Economic Development program, and plans to pursue further graduate studies in business and public policy in the near future.

Dr. Kimberly Fraser, an author with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction, has extensive clinical practice and leadership in nursing and health care. A nurse entrepreneur, Kim owned a successful home care company and vocational school with her husband for 25 years.

Her research program and her writing focus on family caregiving and home care using innovative and arts-based approaches. She recently retired from her fulltime role as a professor (University of Alberta) and Clinician Scientist (Alberta Health Services). Kim uses applied research to incite public conversations and inform policy for better outcomes for home care clients and family caregivers. Kim has embarked on a second career as author and recently completed her first full length book manuscript, The Accidental Caregiver, forthcoming in 2021. She does contract teaching with Athabasca University.

Kim has been active on several community boards in the past and is currently, she Vice-President of Caregivers Alberta. She is looking forward to the second year of her term on the board with WGA.

Dorothy Bentley was raised in Southern Ontario and has made Alberta home for many years. Previously a freelance writer, her articles, columns, poetry and short stories have been published in many periodicals. Her current publications include Summer North Coming, a poetry picture book published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside in 2019, two poems in the M(othering) Anthology, published by Inanna Publications & Education Inc., released spring 2022, and Escape from the Wildfire, a YA novel published by James Lorimer & Company Ltd., released fall 2022.

She has served several non-profit organizations in public relations and has worked in programming and administrative roles, most recently as Program Coordinator for the WGA based in Calgary. She comes to the board as a member-at-large with the desire to encourage staff and members throughout the province, and to explore funding avenues. She resides in the country south of Calgary with her family, a cat named Whitney Mewston, and a Sheltie named Clay.