Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the critically acclaimed author of three books: the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated short story collection How to Get Along with Women (2012), the literary thriller The Devil You Know (2015), and the 1950s-era Hitchcock-style thriller, Hysteria (2018.) She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, and has taught fiction at UBC, Memorial University, and through the […]
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Ann Cavoukian, PhD, is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. She served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, where she created Privacy by Design, a framework that has now become an International Standard. Along with being an author of two books, The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust with Tyler Hamilton […]
David Bezmozgis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. He is the author of the story collections, Immigrant City and Natasha and Other Stories, and the novels, The Betrayers and The Free World. His books have been nominated for the Scotiabank/Giller Prize, The Governor-General’s Award, the Trillium Prize and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and […]
Kamal Al-Solaylee is the author of the national bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for the CBC’s Canada Reads, as well as the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. A finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction as well as […]
Anosh Irani’s novel, The Parcel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. His anthology, The Bombay Plays: The Matka King & Bombay Black, was a finalist for the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Bombay Black won the Dora Mavor […]
Kate Siklosi is a poet, scholar, publisher and teacher who lives in Dish With One Spoon Territory/Toronto, Canada. Her work includes leavings (Timglaset 2021), which sold into its second printing, and six chapbooks of poetry. Her critical and creative work has been featured across North America, Europe and the UK. She is also Sessional Faculty […]
Sarabeth Holden is a children’s author based in Toronto, ON, and she’s Anaana to two inspirational little boys. She and her husband Sean own Red Tape Brewery in the east end of Toronto. Sarabeth is Inuit from the community of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, she was born in Halifax and raised between New Brunswick, Ontario and Nunavut. […]
Margaret MacMillan is emeritus professor of international history at the University of Oxford and professor of history at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD from Oxford University and became a member of the history faculty at Ryerson University in 1975. In 2002 she became Provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto and […]
Jonathan Manthorpe is the author of three books on international relations, politics, and history, including the national bestseller and Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of 2019, Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada. Over his fifty-year career as a journalist, he has been the foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, and […]
Annabel Lyon is the author of seven books for adults and kids, including the internationally bestselling The Golden Mean. She teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
Marc Herman Lynch is a first generation French-Chinese immigrant. He has an MA from the University of Calgary and is the president of filling Station magazine. Arborescent is his first novel. He lives in Moh’kins’tsis, otherwise known as Calgary, on Treaty 7 land.
Born on May 22, 1967, in Carbonear, Newfoundland, Séan McCann rose to fame as a founding member of the multi-million-selling folk group Great Big Sea. Today, Séan is a renowned mental health, addiction, and recovery advocate, an Order of Canada recipient and a highly sought-after speaker. Most importantly, though, Séan is a singer who is able to weave his story […]
Sidura Ludwig is the author of the widely successful novel Holding My Breath. Her short fiction has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. She works as a communications specialist and creative writing teacher, and her creative nonfiction has appeared in several newspapers and on CBC Radio. She is currently working on her M.F.A. […]
Canisia Lubrin’s books include Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin’s work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Derek Walcott Prize, the Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Stars prize and others. Also a finalist for the Trillium Award for Poetry and […]
Catherine McKenzie was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. A graduate of McGill University in history and law, Catherine practiced law for twenty years before leaving to write full time. An avid runner, skier and tennis player, she’s the author of numerous bestsellers including I’ll Never Tell and The Good Liar. Her works have been […]
Cynthia Loyst is a writer, producer, television co-host of CTV’s THE SOCIAL and a self-described “professional sensualist.” She is the creator of FindYourPleasure.com, a popular online destination that celebrates decadence, indulgence, and pure, unadulterated joy. She is also a sought-after public speaker and relationship advice columnist. Find Your Pleasure is her debut book and a […]
Lauren McKeon’s critically acclaimed first book, F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism, was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Hill Times book of the year and one of Feminist Book Club’s top five feminist books ever. McKeon is the winner of several National Magazine Awards. Her writing has appeared in Hazlitt, Flare, Chatelaine, and Best Canadian Essays, on TVO.org and in the book Whatever […]
Ethan Lou was a staff business writer for Reuters and has also written for numerous publications around the world, including The Guardian, the South China Morning Post, the Washington Post, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Maclean’s and the Walrus.
Liz Levine is an award-winning producer whose credits include Kyra Sedgwick’s directorial debut, Story of a Girl, and Douglas Coupland’s television series jPod. She completed her master of journalism degree at the University of British Columbia and has written for the National Post, The Walrus, Playback magazine, and The Vancouver Sun. She divides her time […]
Anne Michaels’s books have been translated into more than 45 languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She has been short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice short-listed for the Giller Prize […]
Shani Mootoo is a writer and visual artist. She was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and moved to Canada in her early twenties. She’s the author of two poetry books, The Predicament of Or, and her latest, Cane | Fire. She’s the author of several novels, including Polar Vortex, finalist for the 2020 […]
A. F. Moritz is widely considered one of the defining and most beloved lyric poets of his generation. His many honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize and an Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He currently serves as the 6th […]
Joni Murphy is a writer from New Mexico who lives in New York. Her debut novel, Double Teenage, was published by Book*hug Press in 2016. It was named one of The Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of the Year. Her latest novel is Talking Animals.
Hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Sarah Leipciger lives in London, U.K., with her three children. She is Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University and also teaches at City Lit. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Asham Award, the Fish Prize and the Bridport Prize. She is the author of the critically acclaimed […]
