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 […]
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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.
Julian Sher is the author of eight books. His book Until You Are Dead: The Wrongful Conviction of Steven Truscott helped clear Truscott’s name. He co-authored two books on biker gangs, The Road to Hell and Angels of Death, which won the Crime Writers of Canada award and wrote two books on crimes against children, […]
Bianca Marais is the bestselling author of The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words and If You Want to Make God Laugh. She’s an award-winning creative writing instructor, and the founder and cohost of the popular podcast, The Shit No One Tells You About Writing, which is aimed at helping […]
Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now […]
Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in Brick, Literary Hub, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, The Criterion Collection’s Current, and MUBI’s Notebook. He is a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly, where he curates an ongoing series on refugee, migrant, and diasporic writing. He is the author […]
Wanda Taylor is an award-winning author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and college professor. She writes both fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. Wanda’s book The Grover School Pledge is a favourite among kids across Canada, with its focus on friendship, diversity, kindness, and community. The Grover School Pledge was named a top book for kids by […]
Cheryl Isaacs can often be found running through the Carolinian forests of Southwestern Ontario, where she has fearlessly enjoyed the trails for years. Her Kanien’kéha culture often appears in her writing. The Unfinished is her debut novel, though her work has appeared in numerous Indigenous publications.
Shelley Wood is a Canadian writer and journalist. Her breakout debut novel, The Quintland Sisters, sold approximately 50,000 copies in North America and debuted as a #1 bestseller on the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail fiction lists, holding the top spot for five weeks, then ending the year as #7 on the list […]
Rick Mofina is a former journalist and bestselling author of more than 30 crime fiction thrillers that have been published in nearly 30 countries. He is a two-time winner of The Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence; a Barry Award winner; a four-time Thriller Award finalist and a two-time Shamus Award finalist. Library Journal […]
Sadi Muktadir is a writer from Toronto. His debut novel, Land of No Regrets, was published by HarperCollins Canada and Hanover Square Press on May 21st, 2024. His short stories have appeared in Joyland Magazine, the Humber Literary Review, Blank Spaces, The New Quarterly and other places. He is a two-time finalist for the Thomas […]
