Glenn Dixon is an author, documentary film maker and musician. His new book The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances is a Canadian bestseller and has been published in twelve countries including the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Australia, France, Greece and China. His memoir Juliet’s Answer was also a bestseller and involved his time working with […]
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Jessica Johns is a queer nehiyaw aunty and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was a Canada Reads finalist, and won the WGA Fiction Prize, Alex Award, and MacEwan Book of the Year Prize.
Lee Heejoo was born in Seoul in 1992. She started her writing career winning the Munhakdongne University Novel Award with her debut Phantom Limb Pain in 2016 and received the Munhakdongne Young Author Award and the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award Grand Prize in 2025. She is also the author of the ‘Love World’ series and […]
Adam Hochschild writes frequently about issues of human rights and social justice. The latest of his eleven books is American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis. His King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, […]
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote’s Wild Home, a children’s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A […]
B.K. Borison is the New York Times bestselling author of cozy, contemporary romances featuring emotionally vulnerable characters and swoon-worthy settings. When she’s not daydreaming about fictional characters doing fictional things, she’s at home with her family, more than likely buying books she doesn’t have room for.
Emily St. John Mandel is from British Columbia. She is the author of six previous novels, including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and was included in the New York Times Best 100 Books of the […]
Stig Abell believes that discovering a crime fiction series to enjoy is one of the great pleasures in life. His first novel, Death Under A Little Sky, introduced Jake Jackson and his attempt to get away from his former life in the beautiful area around Little Sky, which was followed by his second, third and […]
Matt Haig is the author of the internationally bestselling book, The Midnight Library. He is also the author of the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time, and The Life Impossible, which was a Canadian national bestseller and a New York Times bestseller. He has also written a number of children’s books, including A Boy […]
Briar Boleyn is a former grad student and teacher turned fantasy romance author. She once wrote award-winning scholarly papers on Dumbledore and Arthurian legends before realizing she could write stories of her own with significantly more kissing. Briar lives in the middle of Canada with her husband and their two demon-angel hybrid children. She enjoys […]
Lori Dyan is a bestselling author, tarot expert, and ritual guide with 35+ years of experience inspiring audiences worldwide. Known for her signature blend of humor and insight, Lori has been featured in Vogue and at luxury events from Beverly Hills to Bali. Whether she’s captivating leaders at Google and Chanel or leading transformational retreats […]
Cecelia Ahern was born and grew up in Dublin. Her novels have been translated into thirty-five languages and have sold more than twenty-five million copies in over fifty countries. Two of her books have been adapted as films and she has created several TV series. She and her books have won numerous awards, including the […]
Amy James lives with her husband and dog on the east coast of Canada, where she writes YA and adult fantasy and contemporary romance. When she’s not writing or working, she enjoys playing piano and learning new languages.
Jenny Colgan is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including The Christmas Bookshop, The Bookshop on the Corner, Close Knit, and The Summer Skies. Jenny, her husband, and three children live in a genuine castle in Scotland.
Tracey Lindberg is a citizen of As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree and hails from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation community. She is an award-winning academic writer and a professor of law. She is the author of Birdie, which was shortlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and the Georges Bugnet Award […]
Bo-Young Kim won the inaugural Korean Science & Technology Creative Writing Award with her first published novella in 2004 and has gone on to win the annual South Korean SF Novel Award three times. She served as a consultant to Parasite director Bong Joon Ho’s earlier sci-fi film Snowpiercer. She has novellas forthcoming from HarperCollins […]
Susan Aglukark is a Juno Award–winning Inuk singer-songwriter. Born in Fort Churchill, Manitoba, but raised in Arviat, Nunavut, Susan now lives in Ontario. She is the first Inuk artist to win a Juno (four times) and a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada, […]
Terao Tetsuya graduated from National Taiwan University with degrees in Computer Science Information Engineering. He earned a master’s degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon and worked as an engineer at Google before turning to writing full-time. He published debut short story collection Spent Bullets and essay collection Overfitting. Spent Bullets won Taiwan Literature Awards’ […]
Patrick Tarr is an award-winning film and television writer whose work has been seen around the globe. Originally from Vancouver, he lives in Toronto with his family.
Catherine Newman is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night, the kids’ craft book Stitch Camp, the best-selling how-to books for kids How to Be a Person and What Can I Say?, and the novels We All Want Impossible Things, Sandwich, […]
Alyson Richman graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in art history and Japanese studies. She is an accomplished painter, and her novels combine her deep love of art, historical research, and travel. Alyson’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages and have reached the bestseller lists both in the United States and abroad. She […]
Sue Hincenbergs is a former television producer who has worked on multiple award-winning programs. She lives in Toronto with her (very much alive) husband, her scruffy, middle-aged rescue dog, Kramer, and the rooms full of the stuff her three sons left behind when they moved out. The porch light is always on in case one […]
Mi-ae Seo, dubbed the Queen of Korean Mystery, is a celebrated author known for her psychological thrillers and works like Happy Killers and Thirty Ways to Kill a Husband. Born in Punggi and raised in Seoul, she shifted from drama writing to novels to fully express her passion for mystery. Her Ha-young Trilogy, praised internationally, showcases […]
Lisa Fitterman is a reporter, an editor and a columnist. Her work appears in newspapers and magazines across Canada. Her feature on the corruption scandal in Quebec, published in the Walrus, won a gold medal at the National Magazine Awards. A native of Vancouver, Lisa Fitterman has spent most of her professional life in Montreal.
