Rennie, Lori
LORI RENNIE has been providing printing solutions to authors and publishers for over 28 years and, prior to that, sold books for a small publisher in Toronto. She is the National Accounts Manager for Marquis Book Printing. Lori resides in Toronto and services clients across Canada and the US.
Reid, Jane
JANE REID is a passionate locavore who fell in love with British Columbia’s bounty one fruit and vegetable at a time. She enjoys exploring every corner of the province, finding new and beautiful places, visiting farmers markets, roadside stands, U-picks, orchards, and vineyards on the way. Jane loves to learn more about where, when, and […]
Raina, Nidhi
NIDHI RAINA started cooking and baking as a hobby in her twenties while flying with British Airways, and later working as a corporate trainer in healthcare in California. She picked up tips and skills at Alpine Cafe in Whistler and The Pony Espresso in Pemberton. Nidhi focuses on baked samosas and other vegan, gluten free […]
MOORE, LISA
LISA MOORE is the acclaimed author of the novels Caught, February, and Alligator; the story collections Open and Something for Everyone; and the young-adult novel Flannery. Her books have won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads, been finalists for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and been longlisted for […]
Medved, Maureen
MAUREEN MEDVED is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. She has written essays on television and film. Her debut novel, The Tracey Fragments, was published by House of Anansi Press, and Maureen’s screen adaptation (directed by Bruce MacDonald and starring Ellen Page) opened […]
McLeod, Darrel J.
DARREL J. MCLEOD is Cree from treaty eight territory in Northern Alberta. Before pursuing writing in his retirement he was a chief negotiator of land claims for the federal government and executive director of education and international affairs with the assembly of First Nations. He holds degrees in French Literature and Education from UBC. Darrel […]
Lazarus, Eve
EVE LAZARUS is a journalist, crime historian, blogger and author. Her passion for non-traditional history and fascination with murder has led to seven books of non-fiction including the BC bestsellers Blood, Sweat, and Fear, a 2018 finalist for Best National True Crime book, Arthur Ellis Awards; Cold Case Vancouver, 2016 finalist for the Bill Duthie […]
Lane, Patrick
We regret to announce that Patrick Lane is unable to attend the festival. PATRICK LANE is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has published 32 books of poetry, fiction, and Non-Fiction, and has received many awards for his writing, including the Governor General’s Award for Poetry (1979), the Canadian Authors Association Award for […]
Kaufman, Brian
BRIAN KAUFMAN is a writer, editor, and publisher and has been active in the publishing community for over twenty-five years. Mr. Kaufman has ushered over 200 books and 79 issues of subTerrain Magazine into print and has served as the Executive Director of the subTerrain Literary Collective Society since its inception in 1988. In 2009, […]
Hynes, Joel Thomas
JOEL THOMAS HYNES is a multidisciplinary artist from Newfoundland, Canada. His most recent novel We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the BMO Winterset Award, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Other works include Down to the Dirt (adapted to screen in 2008), Right Away […]