Michael Crummey is author of the memoir Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation; seven books of poetry, including Arguments with Gravity, winner of the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry; and the short fiction collection Flesh and Blood. His first novel, River Thieves, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, […]
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Maureen Hynes lives in Toronto. Her first book of poetry, Rough Skin (Wolsak and Wynn, 1995), won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry by a Canadian. Her second collection, Harm’s Way (Brick Books, 2001), was followed by Marrow, Willow (Pedlar Press, 2011) and then The Poison Colour […]
Karen Solie’s first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the ReLit and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her second, Modern and Normal, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous […]
John Steffler was the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada from 2006 to 2008. His other books of poetry include Lookout, a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize; That Night We Were Ravenous, winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize; and Helix: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Poetry Prize. Steffler is also […]
Jan Zwicky has published nine collections of poetry including Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 1999, Robinson’s Crossing, which won the Dorothy Livesay Prize and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2004, Forge, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat […]
Irfan Ali is a poet, essayist, writer, and educator. His short poetry collection, Who I Think About When I Think About You was shortlisted for the 2015 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Accretion is his first full-length work. Irfan was born, raised, and still lives in Toronto.
Barry Dempster, twice nominated for the Governor General’s Award, is the author of fourteen previous collections of poetry. His collection The Burning Alphabet won the Canadian Authors’ Association Chalmers Award for Poetry in 2005. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and in 2014 he was […]
Deborah Dundas is the Books Editor at the Toronto Star with a broad background in the media, including stints in business, lifestyle and national and city politics, in Canada and while working and living in Northern Ireland. She has interviewed some of the world’s most recognizable authors including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith […]
Lee Gowan is the author of the novels Confession, The Last Cowboy, (published in France as Jusqu’au bout du ciel), and Make Believe Love, which was nominated for the Trillium Award for best book in Ontario. He also published the critically acclaimed story collection Going to Cuba, and wrote the award-winning screenplay for Paris or Somewhere. He is the Program Director for Creative Writing […]
Judith Pereira joined The Globe and Mail in 2001, as an intern at Report on Business magazine, while doing her Master’s degree in Publishing at Simon Fraser University. After a stint as a features editor for globeandmail.com, she spent nearly two decades as an editor at the magazine where she won several National Newspaper Awards […]
Lindsay B-e is a writer and filmmaker from Saskatchewan who now lives in Toronto. The Cyborg Anthology is their first book.
Anne T. Donahue is a writer and person from Cambridge, Ontario. Her first book, Nobody Cares, came out in September 2018, and her second, Small Tornadoes, will be out sometime in 2022. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @annetdonahue where she communicates mostly in Succession screencaps.
Colin McAdam’s last novel, A Beautiful Truth, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. His first novel, Some Great Thing, won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was nominated for the […]
Nahlah Ayed, the host of CBC Radio’s Ideas, is an award-winning veteran foreign news reporter who spent nearly a decade in the Middle East covering the region’s many conflicts, and later in London where she covered major stories from Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Europe’s refugee crisis; and the Brexit vote and its fallout. In 2012, […]
Peter Mansbridge is an award-winning journalist, a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a member of numerous boards and committees. He is best known for his five decades of work at the CBC where he was Chief Correspondent of CBC News and anchor of The National for thirty years. […]
Kate Taylor is an award-winning Toronto journalist, critic and novelist. She is a long-time staff writer in the Arts section of the Globe and Mail, where she currently serves as the visual art critic. She also writes about film and cultural policy. Her 2003 novel Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen won the Commonwealth Prize for best first book (Canada/Caribbean […]
Emily Donaldson is a book critic and editor whose writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, the Toronto Star, the National Post, the Walrus, and Quill and Quire. She was editor of Best Canadian Essays 2019 (Biblioasis), and is current editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, the country’s oldest magazine of literary criticism. Her writing has been nominated for Governor […]
Steven W. Beattie spent 12 and a half years as Review Editor at Quill & Quire, Canada’s magazine of the publishing industry. His writing and criticism have appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Canadian Notes & Queries and elsewhere. He maintains the literary website That Shakespearean Rag.
Proudly Franco-Albertan, Chúk Odenigbo’s passion lies in the interactions between culture, health and the environment. He recently started his PhD at the University of Ottawa in Medical Geography after completing a master’s degree from the School of Public Health at the University of Montréal. Chúk is your typical urbanite, in love with technology and fashion, all the while retaining a connection with nature and integrating green […]
Randy Boyagoda is the author of six books, including the novels Governor of the Northern Province, Beggar’s Feast, and Original Prin. His work has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize, and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the year and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. An […]
Asoke Chakravarty, BOIMELA-UTSAV Award winner, is a poet, writer, artist, playwright, musician, engineer, MBA graduate and humanist who is of Indian origin and has lived in Canada for 55 years. Chakravarty’s written work has appeared in 18 publications, 80 leading magazines across three continents and many international anthologies. His work has been translated to Spanish, French, German, Turkish and other languages. Chakravarty […]
Devyani Saltzman is a Canadian writer, curator and arts leader with a deep practice in relevant, multidisciplinary, programming at the intersection between art, ideas and social change. She is the Director of Public Programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario, working across all disciplines, where she was brought into the museum context to increase engagement […]
Sydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia and has been drawing from an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated numerous children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson, which won a Governor General’s Award, among many other honours, and was named a New York […]
Serah-Marie McMahon is the co-author of Killer Style, founded WORN Fashion Journal, and edited The WORN Archive, published by Drawn & Quarterly. She edits and writes children’s books in Toronto, Ontario.
