Ellie K. Wilde dreams up love stories with a lot of heart and the kind of spice that makes your knees shake. She writes male leads with big personalities and sweet, cinnamon roll insides, and women who discover they’re just as tough as they wish they were. Happily-ever-afters only. Visit EllieKWilde.com and follow her on […]
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Brian Stewart is one of Canada’s most prominent television journalists, acclaimed for his foreign coverage on CBC’s The National and The Journal. Born in Montréal and beginning as a newspaper reporter, he later became a foreign correspondent for CBC in London and NBC in Frankfurt. Stewart has reported from ten war zones, hosted the CBC […]
Alejandro Heredia is a writer from the Bronx. He has received fellowships from LAMBDA Literary, Dominican Studies Institute, UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College. Loca is his debut novel.
New York Times, USA TODAY, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, often in twin-stranded stories that interweave present and past. Her award-winning novels are published in translation in more than twenty-five countries. She lives near Toronto. […]
Eliana Ramage holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Lambda Literary, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she lives in Nashville with her family. To the Moon and Back is her first novel.
Barry Avrich is a veteran documentary filmmaker and producer that has directed and produced over fifty films including Made You Look, Born Hungry, Prosecuting Evil, Blurred Lines, and David Foster: Off The Record. Avrich has authored five books including Moguls, Monsters and Madmen (2017) and built the world’s first movie theater in a hospital. Source: […]
Scott Payne is a retired FBI Special Agent who spent twenty-eight years in law enforcement investigating cases against drug trafficking organizations, human traffickers, outlaw motorcycle clubs, gangs, public corruption, and domestic terrorists. He was also a SWAT team operator and instructor for firearms, tactics, and undercover operations. He lives in the southeast with his wife, […]
Liann Zhang is a second-generation Chinese Canadian who splits her time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario. After a short stint as a skincare content creator, she graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in psychology and criminology. Julie Chan Is Dead is her first novel.
Sash Bischoff is a writer and theatre director. She has written plays that have been developed at theatres throughout the US. As a director, she has worked on Broadway and off. Broadway/National Tours include Dear Evan Hansen, The Visit, On the Town, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Shrek. Sash grew up as […]
Scott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused on the relationship between memory, emotion and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel. Connect with him at ScottAlexanderHoward.com.
Roberta Rich is the #1 bestselling author of The Midwife of Venice, which was published in 13 countries, The Harem Midwife and A Trial in Venice. She divides her time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Colima, Mexico. Visit her at RobertaRich.com.
Karma Brown, pen name Kristine Winters, is author of six novels including the #1 national bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, the 2015 Globe & Mail Best Books Come Away with Me, and the nonfiction bestseller The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life. An award-winning journalist, Brown’s writing has been published in […]
Kevin Chong is the award-winning author of several books of fiction and non-fiction. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Rumpus and more. He currently lives in Vancouver and is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.
Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers and the author of twelve acclaimed books of literary non-fiction, including The Promise of Canada, The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country, and Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike. An adjunct research professor in the department of history […]
Craig Shreve was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, a small town that has been recognized by the Canadian government as a National Historic Site due to its former status as a popular terminus on the Underground Railroad. He is a descendant of Abraham Doras Shadd, the first Black person in Canada to be […]
Mai Nguyen is a National Magazine Award–nominated journalist and copywriter who has written for Wired, the Washington Post, the Toronto Star and several major brands. Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she now lives in Toronto. Sunshine Nails is her debut novel. Visit her at MaiNguyen.ca.
Perry Chafe is a Canadian television writer, showrunner, producer and songwriter. He is a co-founder and partner in Take the Shot Productions. Perry was the co-creator, showrunner and head writer for the TV series Republic of Doyle (CBC), and an executive producer and writer for Frontier (Netflix/Discovery), starring Jason Momoa. In addition, he was an […]
Kent Roach is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is the award-winning author of 17 books, including Canadian Justice and Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case (shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing). He has also written over 275 articles and chapters published around […]
A former waitress, ballerina, bookseller, and film publicist, Margaret DeRosia is a writer, editor, and historian originally from Michigan. She received her BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan and her PhD from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where her dissertation, Detecting Desire: Envisioning Film Noir, […]
S. K. Ali is the author of Saints and Misfits, a finalist for the American Library Association’s 2018 William C. Morris Award and the winner of the APALA Honor Award and Middle East Book Honor Award; and Love from A to Z, a Today show Read with Jenna Book Club selection. Both novels were named […]
Saeed Teebi is an award-winning writer and lawyer. His debut short story collection, Her First Palestinian, was a finalist for several awards, including the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize. His nonfiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail and The New Quarterly. Born in Kuwait, he resettled in the United States, then Canada. He now […]
Amy Stuart is the author of the novels A Death at the Party, which was a #1 bestseller. She is the author of three other bestselling novels—Still Mine, Still Water, and Still Here—which have been optioned for television by Lark/NBC Universal. She is the co-author, with former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin, of Home […]
Robyn Harding is the bestselling author of The Perfect Family, The Arrangement, Her Pretty Face and The Party, which was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. Her book, The Swap, debuted at #1 on the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Canadian Bestsellers lists. She is the screenwriter and executive […]
Sonya Singh is a former entertainment reporter turned communications professional who has followed her dream of telling stories in front of the camera and now behind the scenes. Her debut novel, Sari, Not Sari, is an ode to her own personal dating experiences, during which she honed the art of writing the perfect break-up email/text. […]
