Ben Kaplan is a writer and editor who has worked at GQ, New York Magazine and the National Post. Originally from Brooklyn, Kaplan is a founder and editor of KIND Magazine, distributed in Canada’s legal weed shops, and the owner of iRun, the country’s largest running magazine. His writing has been published in the New York […]
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Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann is an editor and the author of a children’s book, My Father’s Nose. Her work reflects her roots as a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian with German ancestry, and explores cultural memories, meaningful coincidences, community, and identity. She lives in Toronto.
Chinenye Emezie‘s short stories and essays have appeared in Africa Book Club, Kalahari Review, Book Lovers Hangout and Opinion Nigeria. She is the 2013 winner of the Africa Book Club Short Story Competition. Born in a House of Glass is her first novel. Born in Nigeria, she currently resides in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit and culture collide. She brings these perspectives to essays, memoir, poetry and reviews. Gloria has an MFA from the University of King’s College, Halifax, and currently resides in Toronto. Her collection […]
Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez was born in the Philippines, rather aptly on Hallowe’en, and grew up in a world animated by spirits and even the occasional miracle. Celestina’s House is her debut novel. She works as a communications professional, and cocoons in her west end Toronto home with her spouse and daughter in between bouts of […]
Rebecca Rosenblum‘s work has been nominated for the Trillium Award, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Danuta Gleed Award, and several others, as well as translated into Polish and French. Her short story collections are Once and The Big Dream and her first novel is So Much Love. These Days Are Numbered is her first […]
Natalie MacLean, named the World’s Best Drinks Journalist at the World Food Media Awards, has also won four James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards. She’s the author of Red, White and Drunk All Over and Unquenchable. She hosts the New York Times recommended podcast, Unreserved Wine Talk, and offers popular online wine and food pairing classes […]
Babak Lakghomi is the author of Floating Notes. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, NOON, Ninth Letter, New York Tyrant and Green Mountains Review, and has been translated into Italian and Farsi. Babak was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and writes in Toronto.
Sharon Anne Cook is a distinguished professor emerita at the University of Ottawa. She is the author and editor of 12 books on Canadian women’s history. The recipient of many teaching awards, she teaches graduate courses in the history of education. She lives in Ottawa.
Margaret Carson is the eldest of two children who survived the Castleton massacre. A retired college instructor, she is accomplished in creating and adapting workplace programs as well as classroom delivery. She lives in Mississippi Mills, Ontario.
Steve Ryan began his career with the Toronto Police at the age of 18. After nearly 30 years of policing — most of which he spent working as a detective — Ryan retired and began a career with CP24 as a crime specialist. He lives in Toronto.
Susan Goldenberg is the author of 10 books and the winner of a Canadian Authors Award. She has written for Canadian and American newspapers and currently pens articles for Canada’s History magazine. She lives in Toronto.
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar is an author, scholar, and independent consultant. Her debut collection of short stories Suite as Sugar was published by Rare Machines/Dundurn Press in 2023. Her earlier work appeared in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction; Mercury Retrograde; and “but where are you really from?” Stories of Identity and Assimilation in Canada. Camille is […]
Adam Bunch is an award-winning storyteller who brings the history of Toronto and Canada to life. He’s the author of The Toronto Book of the Dead and The Toronto Book of Love, the host of the Canadiana documentary series, and the creator of the Toronto Dreams Project. He’s taught history at George Brown College and […]
Hailing from Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Toronto, Tanya Turton is an award-winning entrepreneur, storyteller, wellness educator, and mental health advocate. Using storytelling, safe space, and education, Tanya has created safer spaces for Black women, LGBTQ community members, and youth to feel heard, seen, and witnessed. Over the years she has launched two initiatives: Adornment […]
André Forget was born in Toronto and raised in Mount Forest, Ontario. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Puritan and a contributing editor at Canadian Notes & Queries. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications in Canada and the United States, including Maisonneuve, the Walrus, and the Outline. In the City of […]
Xue Yiwei received his BSc in Computer, his MA in Literature, and his PhD in Linguistics. He is an acclaimed author of twenty books in Chinese, including six novels, six collections of short stories, six collections of essays. King Lear and Nineteen Seventy-Nine, his latest novel, was published in 2020. His works have been translated […]
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia is a lawyer, academic, and writer. She holds a doctorate in law from Dalhousie University and works in the areas of health, gender and violence against women and children. Cheluchi divides her time between Lagos, Nigeria and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. She is the host of Drawn & Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club, a critic of experimental and independent Montreal theatre and an editor for Insomniac Press. She is the author of Girth and Scorpion Season. She lives in Montreal.
Bob Ramsay is a communications consultant, writer and founder of the speaker series RamsayTalks. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2015 and the Bernier Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographic Society in 2017. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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.
Brian Bradley is a Hamilton-based biographer and author of Outrageous Misfits: Female Impersonator Craig Russell and His Wife, Lori Russell Eadie. He is currently at work on two follow-up books, including a biography of a prominent Canadian activist. Brian is also a journalist at the Toronto Star where he works for the Public Editor, is […]
Michelle Parise is an award-winning journalist, writer and performer. She has worked for the CBC for more than two decades, in everything from children’s television to music programming and documentary making, as well as at the helm of many national radio programs. She’s also a soccer player, parent and champion campfire builder. The daughter of Italian immigrants, […]
Hayley Gene Penner grew up sharing the stage with her father, renowned children’s entertainer, Fred Penner. She writes with some of the biggest artists and producers in the music industry. Her debut album, and her memoir’s namesake, People You Follow, were both released in 2020. She splits her time between Winnipeg and Los Angeles.
