Candice James, a poet, visual artist, musician, singer/songwriter, workshop facilitator and book reviewer. 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: Board Advisor to Royal City Literary Arts Society; 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; the Federation of British Columbia Writers. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, she has been keynote speaker at "Word on the Street", "Black Dot Roots Cultural Collective", "Write on the Beach" and has judged the "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 authored 24 books of poetry with 7 different publishers: "A Split In The Water" (Fiddlehead 1979); was the first book published. 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 appeared in many international anthologies and her poems have been translated into Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Farsi and Chinese. Her artwork has appeared in Duende Magazine and in the "Spotlight" at Goddard College of Fine Arts, Vermont, USA and her poetry inside and artwork ("Unmasked") on the cover of Survision Magazine, Dublin, Ireland and her poetry and artwork have appeared in Wax Poetry Art Magazine Canada. Many of her paintings have been used as book covers for authors nationally and internationally. Websitewww.candicejames.com