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Lesley Crewe

Lesley Crewe is the Globe and Mail bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Nosy Parker and Recipe for a Good Life, which were named to Indigo’s Top 100 Books of 2022 and 2023 respectively, The Spoon Stealer, longlisted for Canada Reads 2022, Beholden, Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Kin, and Relative Happiness, which was adapted into […]

Lauren Beck

Lauren Beck (Mount Allison University, Canada) is professor of Visual and Material Culture Studies and the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter. She researches visual culture and place identity. Her recent books include Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them (2022), Illustrating el Cid, 1498-Today (2019) and Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture (2013), […]

Margaret Augustine

Margaret Augustine was born in Malta and first made a connection with Atlantic Canada when she started her master’s degree in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, which is where she met her now-husband, Dr. Patrick Augustine, of Elsipogtog First Nation. Margaret has been a community member in Elsipogtog for many years. […]

Jo Treggiari

Jo Treggiari is the award-winning, best-selling author of six books for young adults. Her 2019 novel The Grey Sisters (Penguin Teen) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Award, and a finalist for the Ann Connor Brimer Children’s Literature Award. Her most recent book is […]

Stephen Dorsey

Stephen Dorsey is a senior-level business, brand, and marketing strategist, with nearly three decades of experience, and a creative writer, director, and producer of visual content. Today, he is the principal of The Fractional CMO, a strategic consultancy, and of Dorsey Studios, a content production development company. A civically engaged community leader, Stephen is a […]

Séan McCann

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 […]

Andre Fenton

Andre Fenton

Andre Fenton is an award-winning author, spoken-word artist and arts educator. He has represented Halifax at seven national poetry festivals across Canada, and his award-winning debut novel, Worthy of Love, was published in 2018. Andre’s work focuses on race, self-esteem and creating more representation in young adult fiction. Annaka is Andre’s second novel. He lives […]

Carol Bruneau by Nicola Davison

Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau is the acclaimed author of three short story collections, including A Bird on Every Tree (2017), and five other novels. Her first novel, Purple for Sky, won the 2001 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. Bookclub favourite Glass Voices (2007), was a Globe and Mail Best Book. A […]

Andrea Aragon

Born in Utah, raised in Minnesota, Andrea Aragon has had more jobs than most. She’s been everything from a racehorse hotwalker, a Director of Operations for a manufacturing company, and a waitress to a Chairwoman of a board of directors that oversaw a shelter for abused women and children. Her longest and most important position […]