Angelyn Francis is an editor at the Toronto Star focused on social and video. Francis is a journalist with a focus on storytelling across a variety of media and amplifying marginalized voices. She previously covered equity issues at the Star and was a video producer at Maclean’s Magazine. She was named one of Canada’s 100 […]
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Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. He has written three fiction titles, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His most recent novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in […]
Margaret McCuaig-Johnston is Senior Fellow in the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa where she is lecturing and writing on China’s innovation policies since 2013. In addition, she is a Senior Fellow at the China Institute of the University of Alberta where she has published research on China’s innovation system and Canada-China […]
David Moscrop is a political theorist and SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa. In 2019, he published his first book: Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones. Alongside his scholarly work, David is a contributing columnist with the Washington Post, a […]
Timothy Taylor is a bestselling, award-winning novelist and journalist. Taylor has been a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Writers Trust Fiction Prize, and won or been shortlisted for over 20 magazine awards. He lives in Vancouver with his family and two Brittany spaniels, Keaton and Murphy.
Jade Colbert is a freelance editor and journalist. Since 2013, she has reviewed books for the Globe and Mail, with a particular focus on works from Canada’s independent presses and LGBT2Q authors. She lives in Toronto.
Catherine Graham’s eighth book, Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. Her sixth collection, The Celery Forest, was named a CBC Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award. Her debut novel Quarry won […]
Craig Offman is Managing Editor, Investigations and Enterprise Teams at Global News. A winner of a National Newspaper Award, Offman is a former staffer at Vanity Fair and Salon. His writing on culture and politics has appeared in GQ, Wired, the Financial Times and Time Magazine. He holds Canadian citizenship.
Ajay Agrawal is the Geoffrey Taber Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Ajay conducts research on the economics of innovation and the economics of artificial intelligence. He co-authored Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (2018) […]
Candace Savage was born in the Peace River Country of northern Alberta and educated at the University of Alberta, but saw the light and moved to Saskatchewan half a lifetime ago. She is the award-winning author of more than two dozen books including Strangers in the House and Hello, Crow!, both published in 2019. Her previous title, A Geography of Blood (2012) won three Saskatchewan […]
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 […]
Fiona Raye Clarke is an award-winning Trinidadian-Canadian writer and community-engaged artist. Her co-created screenplay, Intersecting won the 2017 CineFAM Short Film Challenge and her writing has appeared in various publications online and in print, including the Puritan Town Crier, the Room Magazine blog, and the League of Canadian Poets Chapbook edited by Chelene Knight: These Lands. Her plays have been […]
Alayna Munce grew up in Huntsville, Ontario, and has spent most of her adulthood in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. Alayna began working at Brick Books in 2007, and became a member of Brick’s editorial collective a few years later. Her work has appeared in numerous Canadian literary journals. In 2003, she won second prize in […]
Don McKay was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, raised in Cornwall, and was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971. He taught creative writing and English for 27 years in universities including the University of Western Ontario and the University of New Brunswick. In 2008, he was made a […]
Stan Dragland is a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic. A longtime professor of English literature at the University of Western Ontario, he is most noted for his 1994 critical study Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, which played a key role in the contemporary reevaluation of the legacy of poet Duncan Campbell Scott in light […]
Bert Archer is a writer in Toronto, a once and future traveler who enjoys reading. Though he appreciates Tiktok, he only posts on Instagram @world.of.bert.
Ardo Omer has written for online platforms as a reviewer and critic for almost a decade. She’s been a judge for a few kids comics awards and is an advisor at the Canadian Comics Open Library. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she serves as the Kids Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD).
Marissa Stapley, pen name Julia McKay, is the New York Times and national bestselling author of Lucky, the first Canadian Reese’s Book Club Pick. She is also the author of the bestselling books The Last Resort, Things to Do When It’s Raining and Mating for Life. Her journalism has appeared in newspapers and magazines across […]
André Picard is the health columnist at The Globe and Mail and the author of six bestselling books. His most recent, Neglected No More: The Urgent Need To Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders, was a finalist for both the $50,000 Donner Prize and the $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. He lives in Vancouver.
Harold R. Johnson has a law degree from Harvard University and is the author of six books, including the bestseller Firewater, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. He lives in La Ronge, SK.
Jessica Johnson is executive editor and creative director of the Walrus, Canada’s leading general interest magazine. She is the former books editor of Saturday Night and National Post, and a former reporter and editor at The Globe and Mail. A national magazine award-winning writer, she has contributed essays and criticism to a range of publications […]
Alena Papayanis is a Professor of Arts and Humanities at Humber College, co-host of The Uncover Up podcast, Tiktok content creator and aspiring non-fiction writer. Her academic studies have been interdisciplinary, with a PhD in Cultural History from the University of London, Birkbeck College and a B.A. and M.A. in Media and Cultural studies from the University of […]
Ann Hui is the Globe and Mail’s national food reporter. She is also the author of Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants.
Sharon Bala’s second novel, Good Guys, was published in January 2026. Publishers Weekly calls it “quietly profound” and a “blackly comic tale.” Her best-selling debut novel, The Boat People, won a Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. It was short listed for several awards and is in translation […]
