Gill, Lakshmi: - Lakshmi Gill is a writer, artist, and educator with accumulated awards, grants, publications, exhibits, archived sound recordings, translations, and work used in secondary and university curriculum and international research. Lakshmi has published extensively in Canadian and world literature. She is one of the two women poets (along with Dorothy Livesay) who founded the League of Canadian Poets in 1966. A Punjabi Sikh/Spanish-Filipina writer, she lives on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia. Current member of The Writers' Union of Canada.