Wachtel, Eleanor
Eleanor Wachtel is the host and co-founder of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company, which is celebrating its 25rd anniversary this fall, and is a winner of the New York Festivals Award. She also co-founded and hosts Wachtel on the Arts. Her most recent books are Original Minds and Random Illuminations, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award. Wachtel has received many honours for her contributions […]
Toltz, Steve
Steve Toltz’s first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and […]
Simonds, Merilyn
Merilyn Simonds is the internationally published author of 16 books, including The Holding, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; The Convict Lover, a Governor General’s Award finalist; Breakfast at the Exit Café, a travel memoir co-written with her husband; a book of essays A New Leaf: Growing with my Garden; and most recently, The Paradise […]
Simmers, Bren
Bren Simmers is the author of one previous book of poetry, Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010). She is the winner of an Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Award, was a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize and has been twice longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Her work has been […]
Shillingford, Gordon
Gordon Shillingford has been a publisher for nearly thirty years and is the President of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc. That company is comprised of several distinct imprints including Scirocco Drama, The Muses’ Company, Watson & Dwyer, and J. Gordon Shillingford. Still a Saskatchewan-born boy at heart, he always cheers for the Riders. Which means he […]
Schutz, Diana
Diana Schutz is an award-winning editor who has worked in the comics industry for over thirty-five years. Since 1990, she has been at Dark Horse Comics, where she is now a senior executive editor. She is also an adjunct instructor of comics art history and criticism at Portland Community College, a published author of both comics […]
Ricci, Nino
Nino Ricci’s first novel, Lives of the Saints, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F.G. Bressani Prize and was made into a motion picture starring Sophia Loren. The novel was also a long-time national bestseller, and was followed by the highly acclaimed In a Glass […]
Paré, Arleen
Arleen Paré is a poet and novelist, author of two previous books. Her first book, Paper Trail, was short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award for Poetry and won the Victoria Butler Book Prize. Her second book, Leaving Now, a mixed genre novel, was also well received. Originally from Montreal, she lived for many years […]
Nevison, James
James Nevison is an award-winning writer and educator and the co-founder of HALFAGLASS wine consultancy in Vancouver. His weekly wine column “The Wine Guy” appears every Thursday in The Province, he contributes regularly to TASTE magazine, and he can often be heard on radio and television providing his accessible approach to wine enjoyment.
Musgrave, Susan
Susan Musgrave has been labelled everything from an eco-feminist to an anti-feminist, from stand-up comedian to poet of doom and gloom, from social and political commentator to wild sea-witch of Canada’s northwest coast. She is the author of 19 books of poetry, numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, and several books for children. In 2014, […]