Catherine Abreu is an internationally recognized, award-winning climate justice advocate with 15 years of experience in the heart of the global climate movement. She is the newly appointed Director of the International Climate Politics Hub, a global network of influential actors working to accelerate climate action by engaging in multilateral fora like the UN. Recognized […]
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JENNY HEIJUN WILLS was born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in Southern Ontario, Canada, and currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir, which received the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Nonfiction and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book. She […]
Tom Wilson Tehoháhake is a Mohawk performer, writer, storyteller and visual artist from Hamilton, Ontario. A multiple Juno Award winner, his memoir Beautiful Scars was a national bestseller and a CBC Best Book of 2017. Mohawk Warriors, Hunters & Chiefs is Wilson’s second book.
Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist and national bestselling author from the Wilp Wiik’aax (we-GAK) of the Gitanmaax (GIT-in-max) community within the Gitxsan (GICK-san) Nation on her dad’s side and from Bell Island Newfoundland on her maternal side. Sterritt worked as a television, radio and digital journalist at CBC for more than a decade. […]
Len Senater is the founder/owner of The Depanneur. He originally studied photography in Montreal in the nineties before turning to digital design in the early days of desktop publishing. For years he taught design technology in Montreal, and then Toronto, developing his freelance graphic design career before becoming a partner in a small Toronto-based communications […]
Jeff Rubin is a Canadian economist and bestselling author. A world-leading expert on trade and energy, and former chief economist and chief strategist at CIBC World Markets, he served as a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance founded by Jim Balsillie. His first book, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole […]
Lynn Painter writes romantic comedies for both teens and adults. She is the author of Better Than the Movies, Mr. Wrong Number, The Do-Over, Betting on You and Nothing Like the Movies, as well as being a regular contributor to the Omaha World-Herald. She lives in Nebraska with her husband and pack of wild children, and […]
Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and became a major motion picture that won nine Academy Awards, including Best Film; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the […]
CAROL OFF spent almost sixteen years co-hosting the multi-award-winning CBC radio program, As It Happens. Before that, she covered news and current affairs in Canada and around the world. As a radio correspondent, she reported on politics in Ottawa and Quebec. As a television journalist, she covered the break-up of Yugoslavia; the 9/11 attack on […]
Jackie Lau studied engineering and worked as a geophysicist before turning to her first love of writing. She is now the author of over 20 romantic comedies including Donut Fall in Love and The Stand-Up Groomsman. When she’s not writing, she enjoys gelato, gourmet donuts, cooking, hiking and reading. She lives in Toronto with her […]
Markus Harwood-Jones (he/they) has been writing stories all his life. Markus specializes in writing young-adult fiction and has a soft-spot for sappy love stories. He is a PhD Candidate at Queen’s University and lives in downtown Toronto with his husband, their platonic co-parent and their extra-cute kiddo. Markus is an aspiring TikTokker with 125k+ followers. […]
J.M. Frey is an author, voice actor and lapsed academic. Her debut novel garnered a place on Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of the Year list, and subsequent works have been nominated for Passionate Plumes, CBC Bookies, Bi Book Awards, Prix Aurora Awards, Lambda Literary Awards and been named an Official Selection of a handful of […]
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of 10 acclaimed novels, including The Commitments, The Van (a finalist for the Booker Prize), Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (winner of the Booker Prize), The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, A Star Called Henry, The Guts and most recently, Love. Doyle has […]
Lesley Crewe is the Globe and Mail bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Nosy Parker and Recipe for a Good Life, which were named to Indigo’s Top 100 Books of 2022 and 2023 respectively, The Spoon Stealer, longlisted for Canada Reads 2022, Beholden, Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Kin, and Relative Happiness, which was adapted into […]
Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the award-winning author of 10 novels, including The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers Award, and Lost Girls, which was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year. Both Coile and Pyper live in Toronto.
Carleigh Baker is an nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân/Icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwu7mesh and səl̓ilwəta peoples. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Essays, The Short Story Advent Calendar and The Journey Prize Stories. She also writes reviews for the Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. […]
Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator and scholar. He has published five novels and two collections of poetry, the most recent is Postcards from the Underworld (Seagull Books, 2023). His own translation of his second novel, The Corpse Washer, won 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize and the Arab American Book Prize. His translations […]
Ebtisam Al-Beiti is a published Emarati children’s Author and Early Years Professional. Earning a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education and working in managerial and teaching roles inspired her to write books with a strong educational message for young readers. She is a member of the Global Council, which works towards achieving selected Sustainable Development Goals. Being […]
Puneeta Chhitwal-Varma is a writer and food advocate who focusses on seeking low-waste, earth-friendly, delicious solutions that work for real life. She has appeared on numerous prominent national and international media including CTV’s The Social, CHCH Morning Live, Global News, CBC Radio, BBC World News, CBC Life and Martha Stewart. She lives in Toronto, Canada […]
Efua Traoré is a Nigerian-German author of children’s and young adult books which have been translated into numerous languages. Her books have received diverse awards including the Times/ChickenHouse prize, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Zilveren Griffel and The Times Children’s Book of the Year. Efua grew up in a small town in Nigeria and […]
Stephen Maher has been writing about Canadian politics since 1989. As a columnist and investigative reporter for Postmedia News, iPolitics and Maclean’s, he has often set the agenda on Parliament Hill, covering political corruption, electoral wrongdoing, misinformation and human rights abuses. He has also won many awards, including the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, the […]
Stephanie Wrobel is the author of Darling Rose Gold, a USA TODAY and international bestseller that has sold in 21 countries and was shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Wrobel grew up in Chicago and now lives in London. This Might Hurt is her second novel. Visit her at StephanieWrobel.com and connect […]
Bora Chung translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean and writes generally unrealistic stories. Among her works, Cursed Bunny, a collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 and was a finalist for National Book Awards in 2023. She is currently an active member of the Science […]
Pascale Lacelle is a French Canadian author from Ottawa, Ontario. A longtime devourer of books, she started writing her own at age 13 and quickly became enthralled by the magic of words. After earning her bachelor’s degree in French literature, she realized the English language is where her literary heart lies (but don’t tell any […]
