Rummana Chowdhury is a poet, activist and cultural personality and is the author of 50 books in both Bengali and English, comprising of poetry, short stories, columns, essays and novels. Rummana has received multiple literary awards from Bangladesh, India, Europe and North America on Diaspora literature and translation works. She has won the 2022 IPPY […]
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Bhajan Sarker, a Bengali author, was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After studying at Terasree Kali Narayan Institution, Dhaka College, Bangladesh University of Engineering (BUET), and Windsor University, Bhajan Sarker is now a Professional Engineer in Canada and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. Although he started writing with poetry, Bhajan Sarker is now well-known as a fiction writer […]
Debanjana Mukherjee Bhowmik has always lived in a cloud of creativity. Although her academic degrees are in Architecture and Computer Science Engineering, she holds an immense passion for creative writing. At the age of seventeen, Debanjana was selected nationally by the Poetry Society Of India, Delhi, as one of the youth poets. She has had […]
Shabbeedur Shuja was born and raised in Bangladesh and has been writing since his teenage years. His first book of fiction Nilee was published in Bengali when he was nineteen. Since then he has written over two dozen novels in Bengali. He traveled to the USA in the early 90s for higher education and later […]
Sreyoshi Bose Datta, a copy editor by profession, has a master’s degree in English literature and language from Jadavpur University, India, and University of Windsor, Canada. She is a supporter and advocate of language rights and language equity in Canada and elsewhere. Sreyoshi is an interpreter and translator in Canada, working with community partners to […]
Badal Ghosh was born in Bangladesh in 1966 and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Marketing. He also completed advanced studies in Digital Marketing Management from UofT. Now he is teaching at a renowned College in Toronto. Badal has published more than 20 research articles in different research Journals, more than 100 creative articles and […]
Akhtar Hossain is a writer, drama director, and columnist. His recent novel is based on the true story of the Bangladesh Liberation War. Akhtar has written and directed 13 stage plays. They were all staged in Canada. Akhtar was involved in television and radio program as a child artist. His first short story was published […]
Juliana Neufeld is a Canadian children’s book illustrator and comic artist, known for her work on Treasure Hunters, the bestselling middle grade series by James Patterson, as well as her collaborations with multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya. Juliana’s work is inspired by folk art, classic children’s literature and small moments of connection and humour in everyday […]
Sam Shelstad is the author of the story collection Cop House, the novel Citizens of Light and the forthcoming novel The Cobra and the Key. Citizens of Light won the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime First Novel. Shelstad lives in Toronto.
Credits include: Broadway: ANGELS IN AMERICA (Tony and Drama Desk nominations); RACING DEMON, DANCE WITH ME, M. BUTTERFLY. Off-Broadway: PROPHECY, FAMILY WEEK, VITA & VIRGINIA, DEADMAN’S CELL PHONE, SPALDING GRAY: STORIES LEFT TO TELL, WIT for which she won the Drama Desk, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Awards. Regional Theater: Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, […]
Dan K. Woo’s family came to Canada in the 1970s. His grandfather was a fire captain and the first firefighter to die on duty in British Hong Kong, partly a result of the British colonial system. In 2018, Woo won the Ken Klonsky Award for Learning How to Love China (Quattro Books). His writing has […]
Fathima Cader‘s writing has appeared in Guernica, The New Inquiry, Hazlitt and elsewhere. In her previous life as a public interest litigator, she represented workers and unions. She is writing a novel about Sri Lanka and the forever wars. She is currently based in Toronto.
Dr. Wendy Cukier is a Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management and she also teaches in the graduate program on Public Policy. As the Academic Director of the Diversity Institute, her work has focused on exploring discrimination, hate and violence against under-represented groups as well as strategies to promote inclusion. She is also […]
Jamie Chai Yun Liew is the author of the novel Dandelion. She is the recipient of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW) Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. She is also a lawyer, law professor and podcaster (Migration Conversations) who lives in Ottawa with her family.
Lori Fox is a queer, non-binary, working class writer and journalist. Their work, which focuses on issues of class, gender, sexuality, the environment and the messy places these things intersect, has appeared with The Guardian, Vice and The Globe and Mail, among many others. This Has Always Been A War (fall 2022) is their first book.
Maria Lassén-Seger works at the Åbo Akademi University in Finland. She is specialized in children’s and young adult literature and currently involved in a research project on the rise of children’s literature criticism and research in Finland (2022-2024). Lassén-Seger teaches, gives lectures and writes about children’s and young adult literature in both scientific and educational […]
Sang Kim is an award-winning author, chef, restaurateur and TV personality. He is a regular food contributor on three national CTV shows. His new TV show, Searching with Chef Sang, exploring the relationships between food, culture, personal identity and community, will air October 2022 on TLN. His third book, a memoir about food, memory and […]
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. She is the author of Wet Dream (Brick Books, 2022), Rag Cosmology (Book*hug, 2017), which won the AM Klein Prize for Poetry, and several chapbooks including Liquidity (House House Press, 2020). Collaborative performance works with Andréa de Keijzer and Hanna Sybille Müller include […]
Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and educated at Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of the novels: The Latecomer, The Plot, You Should Have Known (Adapted for HBO as “The Undoing”), and Admission (adapted as the 2013 film of the same name), as well as […]
