Under a Nanaimo-based e-book imprint named Bellatrix, Lawrence Winkler releases autobiographical works and memoirs.

According to his website: "Lawrence Winkler has worked as a Consultant Specialist Physician in Internal Medicine since 1988. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the American College of Physicians, with professional interests in Difficult Diagnoses and Multisystem Disease. He was the Founder and Director of the Nanaimo Research Institute. Identified as an "Educational Influential" Physician by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, he now enjoys a role as a Clinical Assistant Professor. His recreational interests include viticulture (making wine from his own Burgundian varietals), travel to offbeat destinations, wild mushroom foraging, gardening, music, Japanese Art, and efforts at local environment protection. For more than twenty-five years, he and his wife, Robyn, have joyously cultivated a small acreage on Vancouver Island."

His titles include Orion's Cartwheels, Between the Cartwheels, Hind Cartwheel and The Final Cartwheel.

[BCBW 2012]