During the Toronto International Festival of Authors, immerse yourself in the joy of storytelling that spans boundaries, showcases fresh perspectives, and ignites creativity and imagination in us all. This year’s lineup of conversations, readings, masterclasses, performances and exhibits explores the concept of “writing home” – from books and stories about the places we all call […]
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Makoto Yukimura is one of Japan’s most respected manga artists. His works include the Viking epic Vinland Saga (published in English by Kodansha USA), winner of the Japan Media Arts Grand Prize and adapted into an anime streaming worldwide on Netflix, and the hard science fiction series Planetes (published in English by Dark Horse). Makoto […]
Patrick Hoffman is the author of Clean Hands, Every Man a Menace and The White Van. He’s been a private investigator for nearly twenty years. He lives in Brooklyn.
Ausma Zehanat Khan holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes. She is the author of the award-winning Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty mystery series, including The Unquiet Dead, as well as the critically acclaimed Khorasan Archives fantasy series. Her new crime series starring Detective Inaya […]
Kenrick Bagnall is an Executive Board VP and the CISO for the Cyber Security Global Alliance and head of their Cybercrime Task Force. He also has 17 years of law enforcement experience, the last eight of which have been as a Cybercrime Investigator. Prior to law enforcement, he spent two decades working in the Information […]
Derek Pallandi has been licensed to practice medicine in Ontario as a psychiatrist since 2000 after he completed his Doctor of Medicine at McMaster University in 1995 and completed psychiatry residency training at the University of Toronto in 2000. Currently, he is employed as a contract psychiatrist at the Ontario Correctional Institute in Brampton and […]
Melissa McMillan is a Developmental Justice Case Manager with Surrey Place and the Toronto Downtown East Justice Centre. She is experienced in working with individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as mental health and addictions. She uses these skills in her role as a Developmental Justice Case Manager at the Downtown East Justice Centre. Here […]
A graduate of the University of Toronto, before attending law school at Osgoode Hall, Ranney Hintsa was employed as a licensed stockbroker, and as a information systems analyst. Prior to being called to the Bar, she worked for Crown Law Office – Criminal, where she ultimately specialized in the design and development of litigation case […]
Katie Almond was employed in the criminal justice system for 37 years, 33 of which were as a Probation and Parole Officer with the Ministry of the Solicitor General. For 20 years, she worked with a client population marked by poverty, homelessness, mental illness, physical and developmental disabilities, and polysubstance use. On four occasions, she […]
Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. When he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly […]
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is an award-winning, No. 1 best-selling Icelandic crime fiction author. Sigurdardóttir made her crime fiction debut in 2005 with Last Rituals, the first installment in the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series. She has since gone on to write a number of acclaimed stand-alone thriller novels, and be translated into more than 30 languages. With The […]
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener […]
Jenny Lund Madsen is one of Denmark’s most acclaimed scriptwriters (including the international hits Rita and Follow the Money) and is known as an advocate for better representation for sexual and ethnic minorities in Danish TV and film. She recently made her debut as a playwright with the critically acclaimed Audition (Aarhus Teater) and her […]
After finishing a master’s degree in Denmark, Bjarni Thorsteinsson worked for two years as a teacher at Iceland University. For the last 30 years, he has been working in publishing. Thorsteinsson began as an editor, but for the last 16 years he has been working as the publishing director at Veröld, an imprint of Bjartur […]
Sam Wiebe is the award-winning author of the Wakeland novels, one of the most authentic and acclaimed detective series in Canada, including Invisible Dead (“the definitive Vancouver crime novel”), Cut You Down (“successfully brings Raymond Chandler into the 21st century”), Hell and Gone (“the best crime writer in Canada”) and Sunset and Jericho (“Terminal City’s […]
Sharon Anne Cook is a distinguished professor emerita at the University of Ottawa. She is the author and editor of 12 books on Canadian women’s history. The recipient of many teaching awards, she teaches graduate courses in the history of education. She lives in Ottawa.
Martin Edwards has published four novels set in the 1930s and featuring Rachel Savernake, as well as series based in the Lake District and Liverpool. He has won many awards for his fiction and non-fiction, including the CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in UK crime writing, an Edgar, an Agatha and two Macavitys. He […]
Elyse Friedman is a critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, poet and playwright. Her work has been shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, the Toronto Book Award, the ReLit Award and the Tom Hendry Award. Her short story The Soother won the gold National Magazine Award for Fiction, and her poetry book Know Your Monkey won a […]
Margaret Carson is the eldest of two children who survived the Castleton massacre. A retired college instructor, she is accomplished in creating and adapting workplace programs as well as classroom delivery. She lives in Mississippi Mills, Ontario.
Steve Ryan began his career with the Toronto Police at the age of 18. After nearly 30 years of policing — most of which he spent working as a detective — Ryan retired and began a career with CP24 as a crime specialist. He lives in Toronto.
