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Zoe Whittall is the author of three novels and three volumes of poetry. Her third novel, The Best Kind of People, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and is being adapted as a limited series by director Sarah Polley. Her second novel, Holding Still for as Long as Possible, won a Lambda Award for […]
Louisa Onomé is a Nigerian-Canadian writer of books for teens and adults. She holds a BA in professional writing and a MA in counselling psychology. Her debut young adult novel Like Home was critically acclaimed, receiving several starred reviews, including from Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal. Her latest novel, Twice As Perfect, was released […]
Marthe Jocelyn is the acclaimed author and illustrator of nearly fifty books for young readers. Among her many honors, she has received the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for a distinguished body of work. She most happily composes that work in a hammock, or staring at water, or riding on a train. Even more than writing, Marthe […]
Ben Philippe is a New York-based writer and screenwriter. Born in Haiti and raised in Montreal, Canada, he has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. He has written two young adult novels: Field Guide to the North American Teenager, winner of the […]
Linden MacIntyre is a bestselling novelist and non-fiction writer whose second novel, The Bishop’s Man, was a #1 national bestseller, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award and the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, among other honours. His most recent novels, Why Men Lie, Punishment and The Only Café, were […]
Tessa McWatt is the author of seven novels and two books for young people. Her fiction and non-fiction have been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, and the OCM Bocas Prize. She is the co-editor, with Dionne Brand and Rabindranath Maharaj, of Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada. […]
Elizabeth MacLeod is the author of more than 70 Canadian nonfiction titles, including the acclaimed Scholastic Canada Biography series, which highlights the lives of fascinating and influential people in Canada’s past and present. She’s won many awards for her work, including Children’s Choice awards across Canada, the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction and […]
Irene Luxbacher is an artist and author living in Toronto, Ontario, who has received many awards for her work. She has written and illustrated Deep Underwater, an Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award finalist, and Mr. Frank, which was selected as a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Her illustrations for the Malaika series by Nadia L. Hohn have been […]
Aimee Wall is a writer and translator. Her essays, short fiction, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including Maisonneuve, Matrix Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books and Lemon Hound. Wall’s translations include Vickie Gendreau’s novels Testament (2016), and Drama Queens (2019) and Sports and Pastimes by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard (2017). Originally from Newfoundland, Wall […]
Ruth Ohi has illustrated more than sixty children’s books — several of which she has also written, including Choose Kindness, Friends for Real (written by Ted Staunton), No Help Wanted!, the Fox and Squirrel series and Scribble. Her books have been nominated for many prestigious awards, including the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, Amelia Frances […]
Deepa Mehta is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. Her films include the Elemental Trilogy: Earth, Fire, Water (which received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film), Bollywood/Hollywood, Heaven on Earth, Midnight’s Children based on Salman Rushdie’s three-time Booker Prize winning novel and Anatomy of Violence. Deepa directed the pilot and second episode for the Netflix Original series, Leila, and […]
Ashley Spires is the author and illustrator of many books including the bestselling The Most Magnificent Thing, now an award-winning animated short film; and The Binky The Space Cat series, currently in its second season as an animated TV series called Agent Binky. Her book Small Saul was selected for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s […]
Kevin Sylvester is an award-winning writer, illustrator, reporter, radio sports host, producer and documentary maker. He writes and illustrates everything from picture books to murder mysteries, science fiction to books on sports and financial literacy. His books include the bestselling Mucus Mayhem in the The Almost Epic Squad series, the MiNRS and Neil Flambé series, […]
Basil Sylvester is a non-binary writer and bookseller. They live in Toronto.
Craig Taylor is the bestselling author of Londoners, Return to Akenfield and One Million Tiny Plays About Britain. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and McSweeney’s. He lives in British Columbia, Canada.
Darren LeBeuf lives with his wife and two kids in Vancouver, the city that inspired his first published book, My Forest is Green. Darren started his creative career as an exhibit designer at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. As well as being an acclaimed children’s book author, he is also a family and wedding photographer. My […]
Award-winning Jamaican author Nalo Hopkinson lived in Jamaica, Guyana, the US, and Trinidad before moving to Canada as a teenager. She has published six novels and numerous short stories. She is currently a professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She was the lead author of The House of Whispers, a serialized comic […]
Nadia L. Hohn is an award-winning writer and educator. Her picture books include, Malaika’s Costume, Malaika’s Winter Carnival and Malaika’s Surprise; A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice, illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes; Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter, illustrated by Gustavo Mazali; and two titles in the Sankofa series — Music […]
Tomson Highway is a Cree author, playwright, and musician. His memoir, Permanent Astonishment, won the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He also wrote the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, and the bestselling novel Kiss of the Fur Queen. Tomson Highway is a member of the Barren […]
Ian Hamilton is the acclaimed author of 16 books in the Ava Lee series, four in the Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung series, and the standalone novel Bonnie Jack. National bestsellers, his books have been shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Award (formerly the Arthur Ellis Award), the Barry Award and the Lambda […]
Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning journalist, essayist and author of four books. Her bylines include The Globe and Mail, Elle Canada, Toronto Life, The Walrus, Vice, Hazlitt, Quill and Quire, Reader’s Digest and many others. Her most recent book, Baseball Life Advice, was published by McClelland & Stewart in spring 2017, was a national bestseller and was selected by The Globe and Mail and Maisonneuve as […]
Genki Ferguson was born in New Brunswick to a family of writers and grew up in Calgary. He spent much of his childhood in the subtropical island of Kyushu, Japan, where his mother’s family still resides. Fluent in Japanese and capable of making a decent sushi roll, Genki was the recipient of the 2017 Helen […]
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She spent her childhood between Cebu and Gihulngan, two islands found in the archipelago named by its colonizers as the Philippines, before she moved to Canada with her family when she was ten. She is a teacher and is currently studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese […]
