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 […]
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 […]