LOCKHART, D.A.

D.A. LOCKHART is the author of eight books, including Tukhone: Where the River Narrows and the Shores Bend (Black Moss Press, 2020) and Breaking Right: Stories (Porcupine’s Quill, 2020) His work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2019, TriQuarterly, ARC Poetry Magazine, Grain, Belt, and the Malahat Review among many. He is a […]

LEACH, SARA

SARA LEACH is the author of nine books for children, including Duck Days which concludes the acclaimed Slug Days trilogy. Her middle grade novel, Count Me In, has been translated into four languages, and won the Red Cedar Book Award. Sara is a frequent presenter at elementary schools and public libraries across North America. She […]

LAWRENCE, GRANT

Grant Lawrence 2022

GRANT LAWRENCE is the author of best-selling books: Return to Solitude, Adventures in Solitude, The Lonely End of the Rink, and Dirty Windshields. Grant’s first children’s picture book, Bailey the Bat and the Tangled Moose, was released in 2021. He is the first author to win the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice award twice. He is […]

KNOCH, JEN

JEN KNOCH is senior editor at ECW Press, where she has worked since 2008. She edits fiction and non-fiction, including authors such as Rush drummer Neil Peart, memoirist Catherine Gildiner, essayist Anne T. Donahue, and multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya.

KEPLINGER, DAVID

DAVID KEPLINGER’s latest books include Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018), which was awarded the 2019 Rilke Prize, and The Long Answer (Texas A&M, 2020), a selection of his poems over the last twenty years. In 2020 he received the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. Throughout his career has been awarded the […]

KEEVIL, ROSEMARY

ROSEMARY KEEVIL is an addictions journalist who cut her teeth as a TV news reporter for Canada’s CTV Network, and author of The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction. She has had numerous jobs in the media including host of her own current affairs radio show and managing editor of a professional […]

HUNTER, AISLINN

AISLINN HUNTER is an award-winning novelist and poet and the author of seven highly acclaimed books including the novel The World Before Us, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice book, a Guardian, Globe and Mail and NPR “Book of the Year,” and winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The Certainties is her latest novel and a bestseller. Her work […]

GUNN, GENNI

GENNI GUNN, author, musician and translator, has published eleven previous books: three novels — Solitaria, Tracing Iris (which was made into the film The Riverbank) and Thrice Upon A Time, two story collections – Hungers and On The Road, two poetry collections — Faceless and Mating In Captivity, a collection of personal essays – Tracks: […]

GOOD, MICHELLE

MICHELLE GOOD is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years and advocating for residential school survivors, she obtained a law degree. She earned her MFA in creative writing at UBC while still practicing law. Her poems, short stories and essays have […]

GERNES, ULRIKKA S.

ULRIKKA S. GERNES was born in 1965 in Sweden of Danish parents. At the age of twenty-two she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, already a published and highly acclaimed poet. Her first collection, Natsværmer (Moth), was published in Denmark in 1984, when she was eighteen years old. Since then she has published an additional ten collections, all […]