Bev Sellars is a former Chief and Councillor of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She also worked as a community advisor for the B.C. Treaty Commission. Sellars served as the representative for the Secwépemc communities on the Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry in the early 1990s. In her writing, she has […]
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Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a wheelchair user and a community performance artist. Petra grew up in Germany and grounds herself in disability culture methods. Her third performance poetry collection, Gut Botany, was named one of the top ten US poetry books of 2020 by the New York Public Library. She is the […]
Dr. Angela Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at X University. She received her JD from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC and her PhD from the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. She researches and writes on a range of topics relating to law, technology, […]
Susanna M. Hoffman is a disaster anthropologist, author, editor of thirteen books, two ethnographic films and over forty articles. Her books include: the Angry Earth 1& 2; Disaster Upon Disaster; Catastrophe and Culture; the forthcoming Cooling Down; Nostalgia, Ecalgia, and Topalgia; and Inplacement. Her films include Kypseli: Men and Women Apart. She initiated the Risk […]
Nedra Rodrigo is the founder of the Tamil Studies Symposium at York University, and the bilingual event series, The Tam Fam Lit Jam. She is a translator, academic, curator of Multi-arts events and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Tamil Community Centre Project. Her published translations include: In the Shadow of the […]
David Levithan is the author of many acclaimed YA novels, including Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, Two Boys Kissing, and (with Rachel Cohn) Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares. His most recent novels are the middle-grade novel The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as told to his brother), (with Jennifer Niven) Take Me With You When You […]
Dionne Brand is the award-winning author of twenty-three books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She has written twelve books of poetry, six works of fiction and five works of nonfiction including An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading (2020); What We All Long For (2005); Love Enough (2014); and Nomenclature for the Time Being (2022). […]
In this family, everyone is keeping secrets–even the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can’t protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally […]
Michael Tamblyn, President and Chief Executive Officer at Rakuten Kobo, drives growth, profitability and international expansion in a fiercely competitive market. In addition to leading Rakuten Kobo, the global digital bookseller, he advises startups focused on aging and technology as Chief Entrepreneur of Age-Well NCE, is on the board of directors of the Law Commission […]
Vangelis Hatzivassiliou, born in Athens, 1959, has collaborated as a literature critic with daily newspapers such as Avgi, Proti, To Vima, Kathimerini and Eleftherotypia as well as numerous other literary magazines. He is also the author of the following books: Miltos Stahtouris: The Circumvention of Hyper-realism, Road Signs: Orientation Elements in Modern Greek Literature and The Pendulum’s Swing: Individual and Society in […]
Jason Ryle is Anishinaabe from Lake St. Martin First Nation (Manitoba). He lives in Toronto and was executive director of imagineNATIVE from 2010 to 2020.
Perry King is an author, freelance journalist, communications strategist and proud South Parkdale-raised Torontonian. With a literary focus on sports, education and urbanism, Perry has bylines in Spacing Magazine, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, BBC and a litany of independent newspapers and magazines.
Anishnaabekwe, Shelley Knott-Fife, resides where she was raised, in Curve Lake First Nation. With the honour of being mom to son, D.J., and daughter, Jaime, she has a career spanning over 20 years in First Nation education. She has been Curve Lake First Nation’s Education Manager, a provincial school board consultant, an Indigenous Education Officer […]
Cyndy Baskin, PhD, is of Mi’kmaq and Celtic descent. Her clan is the fish and her spirit name translates as “The Woman Who Passes on the Teachings.” She is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at X (Ryerson) University in Toronto, Ontario. Her teaching, research and writing interests involve how Indigenous worldviews […]
Yusef Salaam is the inspirational speaker and prison abolitionist, who, at age fourteen was one of the five teenage boys wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case. In 1997, he left prison as an adult to a world he didn’t fully recognize or understand and in 2002 he was exonerated for the crime he […]
Patrick Ness is the author of ten previous novels and a short story collection. He won the Carnegie Medal, the highest award for children’s books in the UK, twice in a row for Monsters of Men and the #1 New York Times bestselling novel A Monster Calls, which was also released as a motion picture with a screenplay by Patrick himself. Born […]
Cherie Dimaline is a member of the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario who has published five books. Her most recent novel, Empire of Wild, became an instant Canadian bestseller and was named Indigo’s #1 Best Book of 2019. Cherie lives in Ontario, on her ancestral grounds, where she is working on a new (unrelated) YA book, […]
