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Siri Agrell
Siri Agrell (Canada) is the author of Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums, published in 2007.
Bert Archer
Bert Archer (Canada) is a writer for the Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Yonge Street Media and the Toronto Standard. He was a full-time book reviewer and literary journalist in Canada and the USA for the better part of a decade. [...]
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Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna Singh Baldwin (Canada) was born in Montreal and grew up in India. Her novels include The Tiger Claw, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and What the Body Remembers, longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and awarded [...]
Ned Beauman
Ned Beauman (UK) has written for Dazed & Confused, AnOther and The Guardian. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliot Prize, and won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction [...]
Tim Bowling
Tim Bowling is the author of 10 collections of poetry, four novels, and two works of non-fiction. His works include the poetry collection Tenderman, winner of the 2012 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and In the Suicide’s Library: A [...]
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Marjorie Celona
Marjorie Celona (Canada) was born and raised in Victoria, B.C. and lives in Cincinnati. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Ailene Barger Barnes Prize. Her stories [...]
Ayesha Chatterjee
Born and raised in Kolkata, Ayesha Chatterjee (India) has lived in England, the USA and Germany, and currently resides in Toronto. Her work gained notice when one of her poems was shortlisted in the Guardian Unlimited Poetry Workshop in October [...]
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Tamas Dobozy
Tamas Dobozy received his PhD in English from the University of British Columbia. His work has been published in journals throughout North America, and in 1995 he won the annual subTerrain short fiction contest. His first collection of short fiction, [...]
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Charlie Foran
Charlie Foran (Canada) is the current president of PEN Canada, a world-wide organization of writers and readers committed to defending and promoting freedom of expression. He is the author of 10 books, including the Charles Taylor Prize-winning book, Mordecai, a biography [...]
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Bill Gaston
Bill Gaston (Canada) is a novelist, short story writer and playwright. His short story collection Gargoyles was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and won the ReLit Award and the City of Victoria [...]
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Rawi Hage
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Rawi Hage (Canada) lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. His debut novel, De Niro’s Game, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for numerous prestigious awards, including the Scotiabank [...]
Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris (UK) has published several novels including the Costa Book Award-shortlisted Chocolat—which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp—Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Gentlemen and Players and blueyedboy. A teacher for 15 [...]
Miranda Hill
Miranda Hill (Canada) won the 2011 Journey Prize for her story, “Petitions to Saint Chronic.” Hill holds a degree in drama from Queen’s University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She is the founder [...]
Linda Holeman
Linda Holeman (Canada) is the author of 13 works of fiction and short fiction, including the international bestsellers The Linnet Bird, The Moonlight Cage and The Saffron Gate. A world traveller, she grew up and was educated in Winnipeg and [...]
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys (Canada) is the author of four books of poetry, five novels and one work of creative non-fiction. She was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. Her accolades include the City of Toronto Book Award, [...]
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Jane Johnson
Jane Johnson (UK) is the publishing director at HarperCollins UK, working with authors including George R.R. Martin and Dean Koontz. She works remotely for part of the year from a Berber village in the mountains of Morocco, where three of [...]
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Chan Koonchung
Chan Koonchung (Canada/Hong Kong) is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter. Born in Shanghai and raised and educated in Hong Kong, he studied at the University of Hong Kong and Boston University. He has published more than a dozen Chinese-language books [...]
Arno Kopecky
Arno Kopecky (Canada) is a journalist and travel writer whose dispatches have appeared in The Walrus, Foreign Policy, Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, The Tyee and Reader’s Digest. He has covered civil uprisings in Mexico, cyclones in Burma, Zimbabwe’s 30-year dictatorship [...]
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Vincent Lam
Physician and author Vincent Lam (Canada) is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam, and was born in Canada. He is a lecturer with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and has worked in [...]
Laura Lippman
Former Baltimore Sun reporter Laura Lippman (USA), has won the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Agatha Award, Nero Wolfe Award, Shamus Award and Quill Award. Her New York Times bestseller What the Dead Know was chosen as one of the best [...]
Erlend Loe
Erlend Loe (Norway) is the author of six novels and four children’s books, which have been translated and published in 21 countries. Born in Trondheim, Norway, Loe studied folklore, film studies and literature before working as a newspaper critic and [...]
Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon’s (Canada) story collection, Oxygen, and book of novellas, The Best Thing for You, were published to wide acclaim. Her first novel, The Golden Mean, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller [...]
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Lee Maracle
Lee Maracle (Canada) is the author of a number of critically acclaimed literary works, including Daughters are Forever, Sojourners and Sundogs, Ravensong and I Am Woman. She is also the co-editor of several anthologies, including the award-winning publication My Home [...]
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Grace O'Connell
Grace O’Connell (Canada) holds an MFA in creative writing. Her work has appeared in various publications including The Walrus, Taddle Creek, Quill & Quire and EYE Weekly. She has taught creative writing at George Brown College and now works as [...]
Alix Ohlin
Alix Ohlin (Canada) is the author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices and on public radio’s Selected Shorts. She lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, where [...]
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Susan Pedler
Award-winning journalist Susan Pedler (Canada) is the host of CBC Television’s News at Six in Windsor and CBC’s national reporter for Southwestern Ontario. She covers border issues, the automotive industry and breaking news from the region. Prior to arriving in [...]
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C.S. Richardson
C.S. Richardson’s (Canada) first novel, The End of the Alphabet, was an international bestseller published in 13 countries and 10 languages. Winner of a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, it was named on four “Best of the Year” lists and was [...]
Tanis Rideout
Tanis Rideout (Canada) has been a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the CBC Literary Awards. In 2006, she was named Poet Laureate for Lake Ontario. Rideout also joined Sarah Harmer’s I Love the Escarpment Tour [...]
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie (UK) is the author of 11 novels, including The Satanic Verses and the Man Booker Prize-winning Midnight’s Children, as well as a book of stories and four works of non-fiction. Rushdie is a former president of the PEN [...]
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John Ralston Saul
Award-winning essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul (Canada) currently serves as president of International PEN. Declared a “prophet” by TIME magazine, he is included in the prestigious Utne Reader’s list of the world’s 100 leading thinkers and visionaries. His works [...]
Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Kjersti A. Skomsvold’s (Norway) first novel The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am was nominated for the Norwegian Book Sellers’ Prize and won the Tarjei Vesaas First Book Prize. Rights for The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am [...]
Linda Spalding
Born and raised in Kansas, Linda Spalding (Canada) immigrated to Canada from Hawaii in 1982. Spalding is the author of three previous novels and two acclaimed works of non-fiction: The Follow, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and [...]
Cordelia Strube
Cordelia Strube (Canada) won the CBC Literary Competition for her play Mortal and the Toronto Arts Foundation Protégé Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Prix Italia and a Governor General’s Literary Award. Her eight novels include Milton’s Elements, [...]
Susan Swan
Novelist, journalist and teacher Susan Swan (Canada) has written seven novels. Her work has been published in more than 20 countries and has received numerous awards. Her novel What Casanova Told Me was a finalist for a regional Commonwealth Writers’ [...]
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Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien (Canada) is the author of three books of fiction. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, The Walrus, Five Dials, Brick and the Asia Literary Review, and her work has been translated into 18 languages. She is a previous finalist for the Kiriyama [...]
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Benjamin Wood
Benjamin Wood (UK) attended the University of British Columbia’s creative writing MFA programme on a Commonwealth Scholarship. During his tenure as fiction editor, the university’s literary journal PRISM international was awarded the Journey Prize. Wood now teaches creative writing at [...]
Brian Wright-McLeod
Brian Wright-McLeod (Canada) is a music journalist, radio broadcaster, and author of The Encyclopedia of Native Music. He began working as a music journalist in 1979 and continues to write articles and reviews on Native music for numerous publications including [...]
