J.B. MacKinnon is the author or co-author of five books of non-fiction. An award-winning journalist, his work has appeared in such publications as the New Yorker, National Geographic and the Atlantic, as well as the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. He is an adjunct professor of journalism at UBC, where he teaches feature […]
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Dionne Brand is the award-winning author of twenty-three books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She has written twelve books of poetry, six works of fiction and five works of nonfiction including An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading (2020); What We All Long For (2005); Love Enough (2014); and Nomenclature for the Time Being (2022). […]
Shari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of nine thrillers, including The Couple Next Door, which have all been New York Times, Sunday Times, and Globe and Mail bestsellers. Lapena’s books have been sold in forty territories around the world. She lives on a farm outside Toronto.
Cherie Dimaline is a member of the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario who has published five books. Her most recent novel, Empire of Wild, became an instant Canadian bestseller and was named Indigo’s #1 Best Book of 2019. Cherie lives in Ontario, on her ancestral grounds, where she is working on a new (unrelated) YA book, […]
Author and illustrator Mélanie Watt is the bestselling creator of beloved picture books for children, including the Scaredy Squirrel series, the Chester series, Bug in a Vacuum, You’re Finally Here!, Have I Got a Book for You! and Augustine. She is a multiple winner of the Ontario Library Association’s Blue Spruce Award and the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz […]
Meg Rosoff grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to London in 1989. She attended Harvard University and St. Martin’s College of Art. Her first novel, How I Live Now, sold nearly one million copies, won the Printz Award and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers […]
Wab Kinew is the bestselling, award-winning author of the picture book Go Show the World and the memoir The Reason You Walk. A member of the Midewin and an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, he is also a former journalist, hip-hop artist, and television host. Kinew, who is leader of the provincial NDP in […]
Marthe Jocelyn is the acclaimed author and illustrator of nearly fifty books for young readers. Among her many honors, she has received the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for a distinguished body of work. She most happily composes that work in a hammock, or staring at water, or riding on a train. Even more than writing, Marthe […]
Bryan Doerries is a New York-based writer, director, and translator who currently serves as Artistic Director of Theater of War Productions, a company that presents dramatic readings of seminal plays and texts to frame community conversations about pressing issues of public health and social justice. A self-described evangelist for ancient stories and their relevance to […]
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock was born and raised in Alaska. She worked for many years commercial fishing with her family and as a public radio reporter all over the state. Her debut novel, The Smell of Other People’s Houses, was a William C. Morris Award Finalist and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She currently lives and writes in […]
Colin Barrett was born in Canada in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009, he was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. Homesickness was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, and Young Skins won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the […]
Colin McAdam’s last novel, A Beautiful Truth, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. His first novel, Some Great Thing, won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was nominated for the […]
Eric Walters is one of Canada’s best-known and most prolific writers of fiction for children and young adults. His books have won over 120 awards, including thirteen separate children’s choice awards, as well as the Africana Children’s Book Award, the UNESCO Award for Literature in Service of Tolerance and The Christopher Award. His books have been […]
Kathy Kacer’s award-winning list of Holocaust fiction and non-fiction for young readers includes The Secret of Gabi’s Dresser (winner of OLA Silver Birch Award), The Diary of Laura’s Twin (winner of the National Jewish Book Council Award [US] as well as the Canadian Jewish Book Award), Hiding Edith (winner of the OLA Silver Birch Award; the Sydney Taylor Book Award […]
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His New York Times-bestselling debut novel Shuggie Bain won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was the winner of two British Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, […]
