Before leaving journalism for a career as a private investigator specializing in international financial fraud, Catherine Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She has written several nonfiction books with her husband, Douglas Frantz, including The Man from Pakistan […]
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Diana Chan McNally is a community and crisis worker in Toronto’s downtown east side. As someone with lived-experience of social services and of being unhoused, Diana’s work focuses on human rights and equity issues for people who are experiencing homelessness. Diana is also an instructor in George Brown College’s Community Worker program, and has served […]
Geetha Sukumaran is a Tamil poet and a bilingual translator in English and Tamil. She has published two books in Tamil: Tharkolaikku Parakkum Panithuli (translation of Sylvia Plath’s poems, 2013) and her own collection of poems, Otrai Pakadaiyil Enchum Nampikkai (2014). Her English translation of Ahilan’s poetry Then There Were No Witnesses was published by […]
Nic Sammond is the author of Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation (Duke University Press, 2015) and Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 (Duke University Press, 2005). Nic’s current project, on abjection and resistance, includes the volume Abjection Incorporated (Duke University Press, […]
Daniel Drache is professor emeritus of political science and senior research fellow at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University in Toronto. He is the author of over twenty books on social policy and international affairs. He lives in Toronto.
Oleksandr (Alex) Averbuch, a native of Novoaidar, Luhans’k region, Ukraine, is a literary historian, poet, and translator. He is the author of three books of poetry and an array of literary translations between Hebrew, Ukrainian, English, and Russian. His poetry deals with the issues of ethnic fragmentation and in-betweenness, multiple identities, queerness, cross- and multilingualism, […]
Matt Galloway is the host of CBC Radio’s The Current. Matt Galloway has been with CBC Radio for more than 15 years. In addition to hosting Metro Morning for more than a decade, he has also anchored CBC Radio’s coverage of the Olympic Games on several occasions, including Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014, […]
Robert McGill is the author of the novels The Mysteries, Once We Had a Country, and A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life, as well as the nonfiction books The Treacherous Imagination and War Is Here. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Walrus, and The Dublin Review. He teaches Creative Writing […]
Matthew-Ray Jones also known as “Testament” is a connoisseur of anything and everything involving words. From poetry, spoken word and emceeing to facilitating, hosting and keynoting, Testament has been using his natural speaking abilities to inspire audiences for over 15 years. Testament has performed and taught coast to coast nationally and internationally. He has recorded […]
Tsering Yangzom Lama holds a BA in creative writing and international relations from the University of British Columbia, and an MFA from Columbia University. Born and raised in Nepal, Tsering has lived in Toronto, New York City, and Vancouver, where she now resides. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is her first novel.
John Ralston Saul is an award-winning essayist and novelist. His 16 works have been translated into 29 languages in 38 countries and have won many literary awards including Chile’s Pablo Neruda Medal, South Korea’s Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, Italy’s Premio Lettarario Internazionale and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Saul is President Emeritus […]
Rohinton Mistry is the author of a collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987), and three novels that were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), and Family Matters (2002). His books have won, among other awards, the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, […]
The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson arrived in Canada from Hong Kong with her family in 1942 and made the astonishing journey from penniless child refugee to accomplished broadcaster, journalist and distinguished public servant in a multi-faceted lifetime. Madame Clarkson was Canada’s 26th Governor General from 1999-2005. When she left Rideau Hall, she co-founded the Institute for […]
Halyna Kruk is a poet, translator, and Medieval literature professor at Lviv State University. She has been recognized as a significant voice in Ukrainian poetry since her twenties. She has published five collected volumes of poetry and two volumes of prose fiction. Her children’s fiction has been rendered into fifteen languages. She has won numerous […]
Iryna Shuvalova is a poet and scholar from Kyiv, Ukraine, based in Nanjing, China. She is the author of five award-winning books of poetry, including Pray to the Empty Wells and Stoneorchardwoods (2020) which was named book of the year by Ukraine’s Litaktsent Prize for Literature and received the Special Prize of the Lviv UNESCO […]
Sriranjani Vijenthira is a Sri Lankan native who immigrated to Toronto in 1992. She works as a freelance Tamil-language interpreter, and as a Tamil teacher for the Toronto District School Board. She formerly worked as a biology teacher in Sri Lanka after attaining her Bachelor of Sciences in at the University of Peradeniya. She also […]
Nancy Lam is a Toronto author. As a child and teenager, she lost herself in stories by Canadian writers, in university she majored in Canadian History to earn a Bachelor of Arts before acquiring her law degree. As an immigration lawyer she now helps prospective Canadians write and present their life stories to government officials. […]
Luke Savage is a writer and essayist whose work has appeared in Jacobin, The Atlantic, The New Statesman, The Washington Post and The Guardian. He also co-hosts Michael and Us: a twice-weekly podcast about politics, cinema, and our crumbling world. His first book, The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History […]
Inger-Mari Aikio was born in 1961. She currently lives in Sápmi, Sámiland, North Finland. Poet, writer, translator and director and producer of documentary films and music videos. She worked as a journalist, radio host and reporter. She is the author of 12 books in Northern Sámi, eight of them poetry. Her poems have been translated […]
Elamin Abdelmahmoud is a culture writer for BuzzFeed News and host of CBC’s pop culture show Pop Chat. He was a founding co-host of the CBC Politics podcast Party Lines, and he is a contributor to The National’s At Issue panel. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Globe and Mail, and others. When he gets a chance, he writes bad tweets.
Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the novel Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award in Fiction, and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks), which was shortlisted for the […]
