Michael Winkler is a writer from Melbourne, Australia, living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. He is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books, and won the Calibre Essay Prize for ‘The Great Red Whale.’ His journalism, short fiction, reviews and essays have been widely published, and anthologised. […]
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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a visual artist, storyteller and public speaker. Raised on Haida Gwaii, he melds cultural hybridity and his political experiences as an Indigenous person with contemporary graphic literature to produce a unique genre called Haida Manga. His books include Flight of the Hummingbird (Greystone, 2008), Red (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009 and 2011) […]
Michael Melgaard is the author of the short story collection Pallbearing. His writing has appeared in Best Canadian Stories anthology, as well as Joyland, Lithub and elsewhere. He is a former book columnist for the National Post. Originally from Vancouver Island, he currently lives in Toronto.
Melanie Florence, author of Benjamin’s Thunderstorm, is an award-winning writer of Cree and Scottish heritage based in Toronto, Ontario. She was close to her grandfather as a child, a relationship that sparked her interest in writing about Indigenous themes and characters. She is the author of several books for young readers and has won awards […]
Mazen Maarouf (1978) is a Palestinian-Icelandic writer, poet, translator and journalist. Born in Beirut to a family of Palestinian refugees, Maarouf holds a maîtrise degree in Chemistry. Mazen has published three collections of poetry: The Camera Doesn’t Capture Birds (2004 and 2010), Our Grief Resembles Bread (2000) and An Angel Suspended On a Clothesline (2012). […]
May Telmissany is an Egyptian Canadian novelist established in Canada since 1998. She is Associate professor of Cinema and Arabic Studies in the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa. In 2021, Telmissany was awarded the prestigious medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic in recognition of her literary and academic […]
Matthew Dawkins is a Jamaican award-winning author and poet whose work explores subject matters including adolescence, race, nationhood and mental health. Until We Break is his debut novel. Matthew’s work has been featured in Westwind Poetry, Indolent Books, Pinhole Poetry and more. When he’s not writing, Matthew can often be found daydreaming, talking to himself, or spending time with […]
Marie Hélène Poitras was born in Ottawa and lives in Montreal. She received the Prix Anne-Hébert for her first novel, Soudain le Minotaure (2002, reissued by Alto in 2022; Suddenly the Minotaur, DC Books, 2006). Her short story collection La mort de Mignonne et autres histoires (Alto, 2017) was a finalist for the Prix des […]
Maria Scrivan is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and author based in Stamford, Connecticut. Her laugh-out-loud syndicated comic, Half Full, appears daily in newspapers nationwide and on gocomics.com. Maria licenses her work for greeting cards and her cartoons have appeared in MAD Magazine, Parade and many other publications. Nat Enough, her debut graphic novel, was an instant […]
Leila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction), she is the author of numerous novels, including The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator, Minaret and Lyrics Alley, which was Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her work […]
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, producer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of 39 books, including Why Fathers Cry at Night, The Door of No Return, Becoming Muhammad Ali (co-authored with James Patterson), and The Undefeated, the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. Kwame is the recipient of […]
Kevin Chong is the award-winning author of several books of fiction and non-fiction. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Rumpus and more. He currently lives in Vancouver and is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.
Taiwanese author Kevin Chen started his career as a cinema and theater actor. Now based in Germany, he has published several novels, essays, and short story collections in Taiwan. He is the winner of several literature awards in Taiwan. His first English publication Ghost Town, translated by Darryl Sterk, was reviewed by the New York […]
Katy Dockrill is an honors graduate from Ontario College of Art and Design. Her fresh brush-and-ink illustrations have attracted a wide range of clients, and she has won a number of awards for her editorial work. She has illustrated City of Water and City of Neighbours in the ThinkCities series and A Voice for the […]
Kathy Friedman emigrated with her family from South Africa to suburban Toronto when she was five. Her debut collection of short stories, All the Shining People (House of Anansi, 2022) was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Trillium Book Award. She studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia and the […]
Karon Liu has been a staff food reporter for the Toronto Star since 2015 and aims to link food with culture, history, identity, politics – anything you can imagine. He’s also an avid home cook, and his favourite utensil is a pair of wooden chopsticks his grandma used to use.
Karmele Jaio Eiguren (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1970) has written three collections of stories – Fifteen Wounds, As Weak As You and Not Me, – three novels – My Mother’s Hands, Music in the Air and My Father’s House and a book of poetry. My Father’s House has won the Euskadi Prize of Literature, the highest award in […]
Kamel Riahi is a novelist, journalist, broadcaster, human rights activist, and guest lecturer at University of Toronto. He is the author of four novels, including The Scalpel, and 10 other books of non-fiction and critic. Riahi initiated and founded House of Novel. He runs workshops in creative writing, journalistic and critical writing in Tunisia and […]
Kai Thomas is a writer, carpenter, and land steward. He is Afro-Canadian, born and raised in Ottawa, descended from Trinidad and the British Isles. In the Upper Country is his first novel and was a national bestseller.
Author of Kolkata Dreams (2009) and Maple Vedas (2010), poet K. Gandhar Chakravarty is also a published academic and musician.
Joseph Kai is a queer artist from Beirut, Lebanon. He has published several works with the Lebanese collective of BD Samandal Comics. Joseph has participated in numerous festivals and exhibitions in Beirut, Lebanon; Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and both Angouleme and Paris, France. He is currently living and working in Paris. Restless is his debut […]
John Lorinc is a Toronto journalist and editor. He writes about urban affairs, climate and business for a range of publications, including Spacing, the Globe and Mail and the Walrus. He is the author of four books, including Dream States (Coach House Books, 2022) and has co-edited or project- managed five previous Coach House uTOpia anthologies.
Joel A. Sutherland has won several children’s choice awards, and his writing has been praised by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. He has a Masters of Information and Library Studies and lives in southeastern Ontario, where he is always on the lookout for things that go bump in the night.
João Reis (1985) is a Portuguese writer and literary translator. His books are published in Portugal, the USA, Brazil, Serbia and Georgia. He writes both in Portuguese and English. The Translator’s Bride was his first work to be translated into English, and his novel Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow was longlisted for the 2022 Dublin […]
