ROHDA, LORI

LORI ROHDA‘s debut novel is The Mill of Lost Dreams. She is a Psychologist and former Assistant Dean of Students at Boston University.  When she left the University, she joined Steadman Coles, Inc, a management consulting firm with Fortune 500 clients that specialized in business process re-design. Later as President of King Walker and Associates, […]

ROBERTSON, DAVID A.

DAVID A. ROBERTSON is the author of numerous books for young readers including When We Were Alone, which won the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award and was nominated for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.  A sought-after speaker and educator, David is a member of the Norway House Cree Nation and currently lives in Winnipeg. His latest […]

RICE, WAUBGESHIG

WAUBGESHIG RICE is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. He has written three fiction titles, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His most recent novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism […]

REID-BENTA, ZALIKA

ZALIKA REID-BENTA’s short story collection, Frying Plantain, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction, and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. It was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, appeared on many must-read lists, and was one of Indigo’s […]

NIELSEN, CARSTEN RENÉ

CARSTEN RENÉ NIELSEN is a Danish poet and the author of eleven books of poetry and one book of flash fiction. Three books have been published in the United States: The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors (selected prose poems, New Issues 2007), House Inspections (prose poems, BOA Editions 2011) and Forty-One Objects (prose poems, […]

NAY, ROZ

ROZ NAY is the author of two bestselling novels – Our Little Secret and Hurry Home. Our Little Secret, was a national bestseller, won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller in France, and was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery and the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award. Roz has lived and worked in Africa, […]

MCDAID, AMY

AMY MCDAID is the author of the best-selling novel Fake Baby. She has a Master of Creative Writing from The University of Auckland, where she was awarded the Sir James Wallace prize for Creative Writing. She lives in Waitakere City, New Zealand with her daughter and two crazy cats. When not writing, she works as […]

MANDEL, EMILY ST.JOHN

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL’s fifth novel, The Glass Hotel, was recently published in Canada and the US, and is forthcoming in the UK in August. Her previous novels include Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award among other honours, and has […]

MACDONALD, MARY

MARY MACDONALD has written poetry for ballet, public art, and libretto. Her work has appeared in Room Magazine and Pique Newsmagazine. Her chapbook, Going In Now, was published in 2014 by NIB Publishing and her short story collection, The Crooked Thing was released in fall 2020 by Caitlin Press. She is a member of the […]

LYON, ANNABEL

ANNABEL LYON is the author of seven books for adults and kids, including the internationally bestselling The Golden Mean, winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the Giller Prize, Governor General’s award, Amazon First Novel Award, BC Book Prize, and more. Her latest novel is Consent, published by Random House Canada. […]