Flood, Joan B.
FLOOD, JOAN B. grew up in Limerick, Ireland and lived briefly in France and England before settling in Canada. She spent some years in Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario before arriving in Vancouver, where she currently lives. Her work has appeared in anthologies in Canada, USA and Australia. Her Young Adult novel, New Girl, won the […]
Fallis, Terry
FALLIS, TERRY grew up in Toronto and earned an engineering degree from McMaster University. Drawn to politics at an early age, he worked for cabinet ministers at Queen’s Park and in Ottawa. His first novel, The Best Laid Plans, began as a podcast, then was self-published, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, was re-published by […]
Fagan, Cary
FAGAN, CARY is an award-winning author for children. His kids’ books include Mort Zi Is Not Dead, Wolfie and Fly, Little Blue Chair, the popular Kaspar Snit novels, the two-volume Master Melville’s Medicine Show, and the picture book Mr. Zinger’s Hat, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the IODE Jean Throop Award, as […]
Dunic, Leanne
LEANNE DUNIC (she/her) is the author of To Love the Coming End (Book*hug/Chin Music Press 2017) and The Gift (Book*hug 2019). She is the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review, and the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her most recent work is a lyric memoir entitled One and Half of You (Talonbooks 2021).
DUNCAN, LYNN
DUNCAN, LYNN founded Vivalogue Publishing with Kilmeny Denny in 2010. She draws upon her many years of business and sales experience to help self-published authors achieve creative and financial success.
Druehl, Louis
DRUEHL, LOUIS is the editor of The New Bamfielder and Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University where he taught and researched kelp for 36 years. His bestseller, Pacific Seaweeds, introduced thousands to these little-appreciated plants. Louis continues a 40-year relationship with Japanese seaweed researchers. At home in Bamfield he works on restoring British Columbia’s failing kelp […]
Connolly, Kevin
CONNOLLY, KEVIN’s previous collections include Asphalt Cigar (finalist, Gerald Lampert Award), Drift (winner, Trillium Poetry Prize), and Revolver (finalist, Griffin Poetry Prize, Trillium Book Award). His most recent published collection of poetry is called Xiphoid Process and Kevin is also the current poetry editor at House of Anansi Press. He teaches poetry in the MFA […]
Chong, Anita
CHONG, ANITA is a Senior Editor at McClelland & Stewart, where she acquires and edits literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, and memoir. Notable titles include 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie, We’re All in This Together by Amy Jones, The Measure of […]
Chariandy, David
Due to unforeseen circumstances, unfortunately David Chariandy will not be attending the festival. CHARIANDY, DAVID grew up in Toronto and lives and teaches in Vancouver. His debut novel, Soucouyant, received stunning reviews and nominations from eleven literary awards juries, including a Governor General’s Literary Award shortlisting, a Gold Independent Publisher Award for Best Novel, and the […]
Casper, Claudia
CASPER, CLAUDIA is a Canadian writer. She is known for her bestselling novel The Reconstruction, about a woman who constructs a life-sized model of the hominid Lucy for a museum diorama while trying to recreate herself. Her second novel, The Continuation of Love By Other Means, was short-listed for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Casper’s […]