Candice James, is a professional writer, poet, visual artist, musician, singer/songwriter, workshop facilitator and book reviewer for a variety of Publishing Houses, Canadian Poetry Review and Pacific Rim Review of Books. She completed her 2nd three year term as Poet Laureate of The City of New Westminster, BC CANADA in June 2016 and was appointed Poet Laureate Emerita in November 2016. Her credentials are: Director of the Pacific Festival of the Book; Founder of: Poetry New Westminster; Poetry In The Park; Poetic Justice, Slam Central and Royal City Literary Arts Society; Past President of Royal City Literary Arts Society; Federation of British Columbia Writers; and Past Director of SpoCan. She has been keynote speaker at “Word On The Street”, “Black Dot Roots Cultural Collective”, “Write On The Beach” and has been a judge for the League of Canadian Poets “Pat Lowther Memorial Award” and “Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poet Award”. She received Pandora’s Collective Vancouver Citizenship Award; and the Bernie Legge Artist/Cultural award.Candice has featured at many venues both civic and public and appeared on television and radio. She has presented workshops, mentored writers; written prefaces and reviews, published articles, and short stories. Her poetry has been translated into Arabic, Italian, German, Bengali and Farsi. Her artwork has appeared in Duende Magazine and “Spotlight” Goddard College of Fine Arts, Vermont, USA and her poetry has appeared in and artwork (“Unmasked”) on the cover of Survision Magazine, Dublin, Ireland and her poetry and artwork have appeared in Wax Poetry Art Magazine Canada.Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_JamesWebsite http://www.candicejames.com/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2EA5GcEClGYuF3o2KKHJFQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUtcuIOHpxmCrGRJd-y5H3A Sound Cloud https://soundcloud.com/user-45844113PoLo Emerita https://www.facebook.com/NWPoLoEmerita/Artist https://www.facebook.com/CandiceJamesArtist/Musician https://www.facebook.com/Candice-James-Songwriter-Bass-Guitarist- 156859754352277/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-0gJg8Z-aCHHgrUhK3glUQRead more about this authorRead less about this author