Elise Levine is the author of the story collection This Wicked Tongue, the novels Blue Field and Requests and Dedications, and the story collection Driving Men Mad. Her work has also appeared in publications including Ploughshares, Blackbird, The Gettysburg Review and Best Canadian Stories. She lives in Baltimore, MD, where she teaches in the MA […]
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Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war during the 1970s and 1980s. He immigrated to Canada in 1992 and now lives in Montreal. His first novel, De Niro’s Game, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the best English-language book published anywhere in the world […]
Miguel Syjuco is a Filipino writer, civil society advocate, and professor at New York University Abu Dhabi. His debut novel, Ilustrado, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Palanca Awards Grand Prize, his country’s top literary honor. He has worked as a contributing […]
Cody Caetano is a writer of Anishinaabe and Portuguese descent and an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, where he wrote this memoir under the mentorship of Lee Maracle. Excerpts of Half-Bads in White Regalia earned him a 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for […]
Tajja Isen is a writer, editor and voice actor. Her essays and criticism have appeared in dozens of outlets across the US and Canada. She is the editor in chief of Catapult magazine, the former digital editor of The Walrus and has also edited for Electric Literature. She is the coeditor of the essay anthology […]
Chi Ta-wei is a renowned writer and scholar from Taiwan. Chi’s scholarly work focuses on LGBT studies, disability studies, and Sinophone literary history, while his award-winning creative writing ranges from science fiction to queer short stories. He is an associate professor of Taiwanese literature at the National Chengchi University. Chi Ta-wei’s Festival appearance is generously […]
Kim Leine is a Danish-Norwegian novelist. His previous novel to be translated into English, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord, was shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, won the Golden Laurel Award, Denmark’s leading literary prize, and the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, awarded for books published across all the Nordic countries. Kim Leine’s Festival […]
Patrik Svensson is an arts and culture journalist at Sydsvenskan newspaper. He lives with his family in Malmö, Sweden. The Gospel of Eels is his first book. Patrik Svensson’s Festival appearance is generously supported by the Swedish Arts Council. Patrik Svensson appears as part of Nordic Bridges 2022.
Karolina Ramqvist is one of the most influential writers and feminists of her generation in Sweden. In 2015, Ramqvist was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize for her novel The White City. Karolina Ramqvist’s Festival appearance is generously supported by the Swedish Arts Council. Karolina Ramqvist appears as part of Nordic Bridges 2022.
Áine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer. She is the current Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate (2020-2023). She has written 35 books, poetry for adults as well as stories, novels and plays for young people. Awards include Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship; Listowel Writers’ Week poetry award (2022/2020/2019); Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the […]
Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, and the recipient of the Swedish Academy’s 2022 Nordic Prize. Her memoir, When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back, was longlisted for the 2019 National Book […]
Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Her work combines several genres. Her debut poetry collection, I Devour Myself Like Heather, was published to acclaim in 2012. Alongside Johanne Lykke Holm, Ravn ran the feminist performance group and writing school Hekseskolen from 2015 to 2019. She has worked as a critic, teacher, […]
Didier Leclair (Didier Kabagema) was born in Montreal to Rwandan parents. He grew up in Africa—Gabon, Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast and Congo-Brazzaville—and returned to Canada in 1987. Since then, he has been living and writing in Toronto. In 2000, his novel Toronto, I Love You won the Prix Trillium, and he has also been a […]
Sonya Singh is a former entertainment reporter turned communications professional who has followed her dream of telling stories in front of the camera and now behind the scenes. Her debut novel, Sari, Not Sari, is an ode to her own personal dating experiences, during which she honed the art of writing the perfect break-up email/text. […]
Dr. Audrey Hudson is on the leadership team at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), where she is the Richard & Elizabeth Currie Chief of Education & Programming. Her research focuses on museums, art education, hip-hop, Black and Indigenous solidarities, K-12 pedagogies and social change. In recognition of her work at the AGO, Audrey was […]
Eleanor Wachtel is the cofounder and host of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company, now in its 32nd season. She’s also host and moderator of TIFF’s Books on Film series. Five selections of her conversations have been published, most recently The Best of Writers & Company. She has earned numerous accolades, including nine honorary degrees from […]
Natasha Donovan is an award-winning illustrator originally from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a member of the Métis Nation of British Columbia. Natasha now lives on a tiny farm along with several wonderful creatures — both of the human and the nonhuman variety — in Deming, Washington.
