Rebecca Fisseha is an Ethiopian-Canadian writer based in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Daughters of Silence, as well as short stories, creative non-fiction, and personal essays that appear in various publications, including the anthology Addis Ababa Noir and Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language. Rebecca is a graduate of the Humber […]
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Jackie Khalilieh is a Palestinian Canadian author who believes that young adult readers should have the option and freedom to read about evergreen issues facing teens in an authentic, positive way. Like many autistic women, she received her diagnosis as an adult. Something More, her debut YA novel, was shortlisted for the Ruth & Sylvia […]
Emily Ohanjanians lives with her family in Toronto, Canada, where she works as a professional book editor. After many years on the other side of the desk, she decided to parlay a lifelong love of joyous, escapist, romantic stories into her own writing. The Book Tour is her first novel.
USA Today bestselling author, Bailey Hannah, writes romances with a passion for strong heroines and rugged men who aren’t afraid to love their women hard. Born and raised in small-town British Columbia, you can count on a touch of rural Canadian flair (dirt roads, rodeos, and ketchup chips) in her stories. Bailey Hannah lives with […]
Emma Knight‘s debut novel The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus is a Read with Jenna pick, a Giller Prize finalist, a New York Times bestseller and an instant #1 Canadian bestseller. She is a co-founder of Greenhouse, an award-winning Canadian beverage company, and has co-authored two nationally bestselling cookbooks, The Greenhouse Cookbook (2017) and […]
Eddy Boudel Tan has been a finalist for the Edmund White Award, the ReLit Best Novel Award, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for his novels After Elias and The Rebellious Tide. He was named a Rising Star by Writers’ Trust of Canada in 2021. His short stories can be found in Joyland, Yolk, and various literary […]
Melodie Edwards is the author of Jane & Edward. She has a BA from the University of Toronto, a master’s degree from McMaster University and Syracuse University (2023), studied comedy writing at the Second City Training Centre, and works in communications.
Raised in the UK and Canada, Zenia Wadhwani grew up surrounded by books, inspiring in her, a deep love of reading and storytelling. Few of her books however, reflected the richness of her own experiences, so she co-edited three anthologies spotlighting emerging South Asian writers. Years later, a global pandemic, an approaching milestone birthday and […]
Sheung-King’s debut novel, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked, is a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Award, a finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads 2021, and named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by the Globe and Mail. His second novel, Batshit […]
Serhii Plokhy is a professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University. Author of Chernobyl Roulette, he is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Michel Nieva (1988) is an Argentinian writer based in NYC, where he teaches Writing at NYU. A Granta‘s Best Spanish Young Novelists 2021 and also a 2022 O’Henry Prize Winner, Nieva has written short stories, collections of essays, and now, with Dengue Boy, his first novel.
Ian Williams is the author of seven acclaimed books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. He delivered the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, What I Mean to Say, on rehabilitating conversations. His previous book, Disorientation, was selected as a best book of the year by the Boston Globe. Williams’s debut novel, Reproduction, won the Giller Prize. His poetry collection, Word Problems, won the […]
Michael Redhill is a novelist, poet, and playwright. He’s the author of seven novels, four of which were written as Inger Ash Wolfe. His 2017 novel, Bellevue Square, won the Giller Prize. The Trial of Katterfelto is the second instalment of Modern Ghosts, a triptych of novels. Redhill lives and works in Toronto.
Ziyad Saadi is a Palestinian Canadian writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver. He is a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist and winner of the MPAC Hollywood Bureau pilot writing competition. He has contributed to Indiewire, The Independent, and The Gay & Lesbian Review, and his short story “The Third or Fourth Casualty” is featured in the Palestinian […]
Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss, which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in India, she came to the US when she was sixteen and now lives in New York City.
Jemimah Wei is the author of The Original Daughter, a Good Morning America Book Club pick, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, and an IndieNext pick. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honouree, William Van Dyke Short Story Prize winner, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and Felipe P. […]
Guy Gavriel Kay is the international bestselling author of fifteen previous novels, including the Fionavar Tapestry series, Tigana, The Last Light of the Sun, Under Heaven, River of Stars, Children of Earth and Sky, and A Brightness Long Ago. He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in the literature of the […]
Eimear McBride is the author of four novels: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, Strange Hotel and The City Changes Its Face. She held the inaugural Creative Fellowship at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and is the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Kerry Prize, and the […]
Cathrin Bradury worked as a leader and top editor of major Canadian news organizations and magazines for forty years, including as Senior News Director at CBC News, Senior Editor at Maclean’s magazine, and Managing Editor at The Globe and Mail, where she won two National Newspaper Awards for Special Projects. She currently writes features and […]
Pete Crighton is the best selling author of The Vinyl Diaries: Sex, Deep Cuts and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy and The B-52s’ Cosmic Thing in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series. Crighton is based in Wellington and Toronto and his work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Queerty, The Advocate, and the West […]
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. […]
Peter Edwards is the organized-crime beat reporter for the Toronto Star and the bestselling author of seventeen non-fiction books and one young adult novel. His works have been published in four languages. Edwards is a member of Top Left Entertainment, a production development company, and an executive producer for the Citytv series Bad Blood, created […]
Katherine Ashenburg is the author of several books and many magazine and newspaper articles. She has written for The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and Toronto Life, among other publications. Her nonfiction books include The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die, and The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, which has […]
You-Jeong Jeong is a Korean novelist. She won the inaugural Segye Youth Literary Award in 2007 with her first novel and the 5th Segye Ilbo Literary Award with Shoot Me in the Heart in 2009. Her novels Seven Years of Darkness, 28, and The Good Son were selected as “Book of the Year” by major […]
