FERTIG, MONA
MONA FERTIG is a poet, editor, publisher, and book artist, and runs Mother Tongue Publishing on Salt Spring Island, and is ranked Top Publisher in Canada in TWUC’s Publishers’ Report Card. Founder and Director of Canada’s first literary centre, The Literary Storefront, 1978-1985, the VPL made Fertig a Literary Landmark. Founding member of the Federation […]
FANTETTI, EUFEMIA
EUFEMIA FANTETTI’s debut story collection, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love (Mother Tongue Publishing) was runner up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and won the F.G. Bressani Prize for short fiction. A recipient of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Award and a three-time winner of Accenti Magazine’s annual writing competition, her work […]
ELLIS, DEBORAH
DEBORAH ELLIS is the author of more than two dozen books, including The Breadwinner, which has been published in twenty-five languages. She has won the Governor General’s Award, the Middle East Book Award, the Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work. She has […]
EL AKKAD, OMAR
OMAR EL AKKAD was born in Cairo, Egypt and grew up in Doha, Qatar until he moved to Canada with his family. He is an award-winning journalist and author who has traveled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led […]
DIMALINE, CHERIE
CHERIE DIMALINE’s young adult novel The Marrow Thieves shot to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published in 2017, and has stayed there. It won the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Kirkus Prize in the young adult literature category, the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, was a finalist […]
DANIELS, LAUREN ELISE
LAUREN ELISE DANIELS’s career commenced with 1st prize in the ‘87 Newport Poetry Contest in Rhode Island, USA. Her essays have appeared in Australia’s Antic, The Courier-Mail and Just Off Message. The manuscript for her first novel, Serpent’s Wake: A Tale for the Bitten, shortlisted with Singapore’s Half the World Global Literati Awards and was […]
CRUMMEY, MICHAEL
MICHAEL CRUMMEY’s first novel, River Thieves, was a finalist for the 2001 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and his second novel, The Wreckage, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His third novel, Galore, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean) and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. His […]
CROZIER, LORNA
LORNA CROZIER is the author of seventeen books of poetry, including God of Shadows, which was longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, What the Soul Doesn’t Want, The Wrong Cat, Small Mechanics, The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems, and Whetstone. She is also the author of The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things and the memoir Small Beneath the Sky. She […]
COWIE, AMBER
AMBER COWIE has served burgers at a Canadian diner, haggis at a Scottish ski resort and pints in a Irish bar. She has also been employed by tree planting outfits, liquor stores, homeless shelters, tax firms, non-profits and a photocopy store while freelancing for newspapers, snowmobile magazines and knitwear companies. Now, she lives in Squamish. […]
COOK, EILEEN
EILEEN COOK is a multi-published author with her novels appearing in eight languages. Her books have been optioned for film and TV. She spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer. She’s an instructor/mentor with The Creative Academy and Simon Fraser University […]