Colin Barrett was born in Canada in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009, he was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. Homesickness was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, and Young Skins won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the […]
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Nahlah Ayed, the host of CBC Radio’s Ideas, is an award-winning veteran foreign news reporter who spent nearly a decade in the Middle East covering the region’s many conflicts, and later in London where she covered major stories from Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Europe’s refugee crisis; and the Brexit vote and its fallout. In 2012, […]
K.J. Aiello is a mentally ill, award-winning writer based in Toronto, ON. Their work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Chatelaine, The Walrus and This Magazine. They are still waiting for their very own dragon. Sadly, this has not happened, so their cats will have to suffice.
Lee Kuhnle is a college professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Humber College, a co-host of The Uncover Up podcast as well as a regular contributor to the Conspiracy Roundtable radio show on CFRB1010. He is a graduate of York University’s social and political thought doctoral program. Lee researches broadly in the field of ‘ideology critique,’ focusing most recently on the role of […]
Nathan Radke is a Cultural Theory professor at Humber College, and completed his MA in Sociology at Lakehead University. He co-authored the 2018 textbook Ethnical Perspectives published by Oxford University Press. He specializes in conspiracy theories, particularly the manner in which ideas behave as social contagions. He is the author of Simveillance in Hyperreal Las […]
David Bezmozgis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. He is the author of the story collections, Immigrant City and Natasha and Other Stories, and the novels, The Betrayers and The Free World. His books have been nominated for the Scotiabank/Giller Prize, The Governor-General’s Award, the Trillium Prize and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and […]
Sarabeth Holden is a children’s author based in Toronto, ON, and she’s Anaana to two inspirational little boys. She and her husband Sean own Red Tape Brewery in the east end of Toronto. Sarabeth is Inuit from the community of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, she was born in Halifax and raised between New Brunswick, Ontario and Nunavut. […]
Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Prisoners of the Castle, Agent Sonya, SAS: Rogue Heroes, The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times (UK), and has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris […]
Anne Michaels’s books have been translated into more than 45 languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She has been short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice short-listed for the Giller Prize […]
Hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Sarah Leipciger lives in London, U.K., with her three children. She is Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University and also teaches at City Lit. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Asham Award, the Fish Prize and the Bridport Prize. She is the author of the critically acclaimed […]
Helen Humphreys is an acclaimed and award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award. She has also been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and CBC’s Canada Reads. […]
Catherine Hernandez (she/her) is a queer woman of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent who married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, was a finalist for Canada Reads 2022, and the film adaptation, for which she wrote the screenplay, won eight Canadian Screen Awards. Her second novel, Crosshairs, was shortlisted for the Toronto […]
As a screenwriter and story editor, Alex Pugsley has worked on over 185 produced episodes of television, writing for performers such as Lauren Ash, Scott Thompson, Jenn Whalen, Ennis Esmer, Mark McKinney, Dan Aykroyd and Michael Cera, and for such series as Hudson & Rex, The Eleventh Hour, Life With Derek, Heartland, The Jane Show, […]
Wade Davis is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and was Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013. His 23 books, published in 22 languages, include One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English […]
