Live in each moment,
its the only real thing you’ll ever have

Stories and images from Edmonton’s northern light to imagined worlds at the edge of everything.
Dustin Covey is a writer and multimedia visual artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. Working under the name “Dook,” his work moves between story and image — exploring memory, place, and the quiet persistence of connection between self and other, in words, watercolour, sculpture, and more.
Before devoting himself full-time to writing and art, he worked as an educator and trainer, spending years with children and adults facing sensory and cognitive challenges, and retiring from the field of high-tech human mobility systems — the kind of work that teaches you something about what people need from the world, and what the world owes them back.
His current project is The Berbian Chronicles, a YA literary speculative fiction series set 341 years after a civilization-ending catastrophe — not a post-apocalyptic novel, but a pre-renaissance one: about the spark, and the people who carry it, and the world that catches fire around them.
Short fiction in Spaceports & Spidersilk (Hiraeth Publishing) and Rat Creek Press. Author of the creative nonfiction title Serenity. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Dook does not actually speak Spectral. Well. Not very well, anyway.

“If everyone had teachers, we wouldn’t need soldiers.”

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