LEEDAHL, SHELLEY A.
Multi-genre author SHELLEY A. LEEDAHL writes for readers of all ages. The Moon Watched It All is her latest title, and – as with her award-winning illustrated book The Bone Talker – this book demonstrates the value of intergenerational friendships. Other titles include I Wasn’t Always Like This (essays); Listen, Honey (short stories); and The […]
LEDERMAN, MARSHA
MARSHA LEDERMAN is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author and the child of Holocaust survivors. Her debut book, the memoir Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed, was published in May by McClelland & Stewart. She is the Western Arts Correspondent for The Globe and Mail. Born and raised in Toronto, Marsha has lived […]
KOLLER, KATHERINE
KATHERINE KOLLER writes for stage, screen and page. Her plays include Coal Valley, The Seed Savers and Last Chance Leduc, which won the Alberta Playwriting Competition. Her opera, The Handless Maiden, is in workshop in Vancouver and Hope Soup, for radio, played the recent Edmonton Fringe. Her web documentary, about Edmonton youth changing their world, […]
KENYON, LINDA
LINDA KENYON and her husband Chris Hatton live on a 43-foot steel sailboat, currently in the Bahamas. Stories about their sailing adventures appear regularly in magazines, and Linda’s account of their first ocean passage, Sea Over Bow: A North Atlantic Crossing, was recently published by Signature Editions. The middle of the North Atlantic is one […]
JOSEPH, EVE
EVE JOSEPH’s two books of poetry The Startled Heart (Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010) were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Her nonfiction book In the Slender Margin was published by HarperCollins in 2014 and won the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction. The book was named one of the […]
JOHNSON, HAROLD R.
HAROLD R. JOHNSON is the author of five works of fiction and four works of non-fiction including his newest book Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada. His other recent books are Clifford and Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s […]
HOZAR, NAZANINE
NAZANINE HOZAR was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in British Columbia, Canada. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Vancouver Observer and Prairie Fire magazine. Her first novel, Aria, tells the story of the interconnected lives of a group of Iranians in the thirty years leading up to the 1979 revolution. Aria […]
HARDING, ROBYN
ROBYN HARDING’s novels include The Party, Her Pretty Face, and The Arrangement, and she has written and executive produced an independent film. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband and two children. Robyn’s latest release is The Arrangement.
GRAHAM, GENEVIEVE
GENEVIEVE GRAHAM is the bestselling author of Tides of Honour, Promises to Keep, and Come from Away. Her latest book, At the Mountain’s Edge, was an instant Canadian bestseller. She is passionate about breathing life back into Canadian history through tales of love and adventure. She lives near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Visit her at GenevieveGraham.com or on […]
GOWDA, SHILPI SOMAYA
SHILPI SOMAYA GOWDA was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her previous novels, Secret Daughter and The Golden Son became international bestsellers, selling over one million copies worldwide. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain […]