Joanna Cockerline is a CBC Literary Awards prizewinner, Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the novel Still (Porcupine’s Quill, Autumn 2025). Her work has been published in Room, The Fiddlehead, En Route, and International Human Rights Arts, among other national and international publications. She is the co-author of the international short story collection Seeing Our Sisters (2024). She lives in unceded, traditional Syilx Okanagan Territory of Kelowna, BC, where she co-founded and runs a street outreach organization and teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Still is the story of Kayla, who is living and working on the streets of Kelowna, BC, Canada, and of Little Zoe, a woman in the sex trade who is missing. Set in a vibrant and diverse community of people living on the streets, the novel explores sex work, living unhoused, the opioid crisis, friendship, what it means to survive, and what it means to find a home—especially within one’s self. Ultimately, Still is a story of community, friendship, resilience, and hope.