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Dr. Emma S. Norman serves as the Department Chair of the Native Environmental Science program at Northwest Indian College, where she has been on faculty since 2002. Her writing and teaching engage with critical geographies of space, specifically decolonizing borderlands and Indigenous water governance. She is the author of Governing Transboundary Water: Canada, the United […]
Aimée Craft is an Associate Professor at the Faculty Law, University of Ottawa and an Indigenous (Anishinaabe-Métis) lawyer from Manitoba. Craft is an internationally recognized leader in the area of Indigenous laws, treaties and water. She prioritizes Indigenous-lead and interdisciplinary research, including visual arts and film, co-leads a series of major research grants on Decolonizing […]
Linda Spalding, Kansas-born Canadian fiction and nonfiction writer, is the author, most recently, of A Reckoning, a novel published by Pantheon in March, 2018. Spalding’s novel The Purchase, published by Pantheon in 2013, won the Governor General’s prize in Canada. Spalding’s earlier novels include The Paper Wife (1996) Daughters of Captain Cook (1989) and Mere […]
The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and finally, the hope of a new home in […]
Amanda Halfpenny is the Events and Program Coordinator for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. She graduated with a BA in Literature from Université Laval and then launched her career at La Maison Anglaise et Internationale, a small but mighty independent bookstore in Quebec City. She then completed her Masters in Library and Information Studies at […]
Miles Baker is the executive director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, the world’s greatest celebration of cartoonists and the comics they create. Miles started his career in publishing at a business-to-business magazine publisher, Actual Media, following a post-graduate certificate in Publishing from Centennial College. In addition to his work on the festival, he is […]
Whitney French is a writer, multidisciplinary artist and publisher. She edited the anthology Black Writers Matter a collection of creative nonfiction, the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishing 2020. Having worked as both a developmental and acquisitions editor, French is now the cofounder and publisher of Hush Harbour, the only Black queer feminist […]
Dr. Kaitlin Schwan is Director of Research for The Shift, an international movement to secure the right to housing. She is a Senior Researcher at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and teaches social policy at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work, where she is appointed Assistant Professor, Status Only. She also co-leads the […]
Zara Rahman (she/her) is a spoken word artist, nonprofit founder and community leader. Through written and spoken word poetry, Zara has shared stories with audiences up to 2000 and in more intimate settings. She has been featured on CBC News and the Toronto Star for her community involvement. Zara, founder of the international nonprofit organization, […]
