Thúy, Kim
** Please note: Kim Thúy is unable to attend the 2018 festival, and Iain Reid will be replacing her in the Sunday Brunch reading event Ali Hassan in Conversation. Born in Saigon in 1968, KIM THÚY left Vietnam with the boat people at the age of 10 and settled with her family in Quebec. A […]
Souaid, Carolyn Marie
CAROLYN MARIE SOUAID is the award-winning author of the novel, Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik, set in Northern Quebec, and seven poetry collections, most recently This World We Invented. She has performed at festivals and literary events in Europe, Canada and the U.S. and her work has been translated into French, Arabic, Spanish and Slovenian. Her poems […]
SIMONDS, MERILYN
MERILYN SIMONDS is the author of 20 books, including the non-fiction classic The Convict Lover, Gutenberg’s Fingerprint, and the novel The Holding, a New York Times Review of Books “Editor’s Choice.” The founding artistic director of the Kingston WritersFest, Simonds is an influential champion of writers and writing. She lives with writer and translator Wayne […]
Sicherman, Claire
CLAIRE SICHERMAN is a graduate of the creative non-fiction program at The Humber School for Writers. She facilitates a Journaling Circle on Salt Spring Island, which is part of a multi-generational writing project called Home Words. Claire is interested in exploring how we hold trauma and emotions in our bodies and self-regulation techniques, and has […]
Rosnau, Laisha
LAISHA ROSNAU is the author of The Sudden Weight of Snow (McClelland and Stewart, 2002), which was an honourable mention for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Rosnau’s first collection of poetry, Notes on Leaving (Nightwood, 2004), won the 2005 Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award. Her second, Lousy Explorers (Nightwood, 2009), was a finalist for […]
Rogers, Janet Marie
JANET MARIE ROGERS is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations. She was born in Vancouver British Columbia, lived in Stoney Creek, Hamilton, Toronto Ontario and is currently of no fixed address as she is awarded residency after residency throughout 2018-2019. Janet works in the genres of poetry, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded […]
Robinson, Eden
Haisla/Heiltsuk novelist EDEN ROBINSON is the author of a collection of short stories written when she was a Goth called Traplines, which won the Winifred Holtby Prize in the UK. Her two previous novels, Monkey Beach and Blood Sports, were written before she discovered she was gluten-intolerant and tend to be quite grim, the latter […]
Richmond, Douglas
DOUGLAS RICHMOND is an editor at House of Anansi Press. He previously held editorial positions at University of Toronto Press and HarperCollins Canada, where he worked on a diverse list of bestselling and award-winning titles ranging from literary and commercial fiction to memoir, sports, and narrative nonfiction. Current authors include Jonathan Garfinkel, Joshua M. Ferguson, […]
Richer, Nicolette
NICOLETTE RICHER is an Orthomolecular Health Educator, entrepreneur, Doctoral student, author and speaker. She is a savvy wellness facilitator and a renowned environmental and sustainability expert, with an insatiable desire to learn and educate. Nicolette transforms people with chronic illness or cancer into conquerors of their condition through psychology + nutrition, and she created The […]
Renzetti, Elizabeth
ELIZABETH RENZETTI is a columnist for the Globe and Mail, and has reported for many years from Toronto, Los Angeles, and London. She is also the bestselling author of the novel Based on a True Story, which was a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and a Canadian bestseller. Her latest book is a […]