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Anne-Marie Turza is the author of two collections of poetry, The Quiet (Anansi, 2014), Fugue with Bedbug (Anansi, 2022), and the chapbook Slip Minute (Baseline, 2018). She was a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her debut collection, a Globe and Mail Top 100 book, was released to critical acclaim. She […]

Jennifer Egan Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction, including: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist. The Candy House is a “sibling novel” to […]

J.M. Miro lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. His book, Ordinary Monsters, was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2022. He is a novelist and poet. Ordinary Monsters is a historical fantasy that introduces readers to the dark world of the Talents, who are children with mysterious powers. The novel is set in England […]

Yasuko Thanh is a Victoria-based award-winning author. Her first novel, Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, won the 2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, while her short story collection, Floating Like the Dead, includes the Journey Prize-winning title story and was on Quill and Quire’s list of best books of 2012. Her latest release, Mistakes […]

Danny Ramadan (he/him) is a Syrian-Canadian author and advocate for LGBTQ+ refugees. His debut novel, The Clothesline Swing, was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and longlisted for Canada Reads. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and lives with his husband in Vancouver, BC. A deeply moving novel of forbidden love between two boys in war-torn […]

Jan Zwicky is the author of over twenty books of poetry and prose, including Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, The Long Walk, and Wisdom & Metaphor. She grew up on the prairies in Treaty 6 territory, was educated at the Universities of Calgary and Toronto, and currently lives on the west coast of Canada. Her […]

Neil Griffin is a poet, essayist, and former wildlife biologist. A former finalist for CBC’s Poetry Prize and two Alberta Magazine Awards, his writing has appeared throughout Canada, and Western Europe. He’s an MFA student at the University of Victoria, working on a book-length lyric essay about extinction.  Interview by Joey Scarfone Joey Scarfone (JS): […]

Danielle Geller is a writer of personal essays and memoir. Her first book, Dog Flowers, was published by One World/Random House in 2021. She received her MFA in creative writing for nonfiction at the University of Arizona, and a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award in 2016. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, The New Yorker, Brevity, and Arizona Highways, […]

Hasan Namir is an Iraqi-Canadian author. He is the author of three previous books: God in Pink, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction, War/Torn, recipient of the 2020 Barbara Gittings Honor Book Award from the Stonewall Book Awards, and the children’s book, The Name I Call Myself. Hasan lives in Vancouver […]

Sara Desai has been a lawyer, radio DJ, marathon runner, historian, bouncer and librarian. She lives on Vancouver Island with her family and an assortment of forest creatures who think they are pets. Sara writes diverse romantic comedy and contemporary romance. Her books have appeared in Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, Pop Sugar, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Frolic, […]

Emily Riddle is nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation in Treaty 6. Her nonfiction and poetry appears in publications across Canada, including the Globe and Mail, Canadian Art Magazine, Prism International, Briarpatch Magazine, and Guts Magazine, and she also writes for the Yellowhead Institute. She just completed a poetry mentorship program through […]

Born in Trinidad, André Alexis is a Canadian writer based in Toronto. Starting with his debut novel, Childhood, Alexis has been the recipient and nominee of numerous awards, including the Trillium Book Award, the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the US Windham-Campbell Prize. His most well-known book, Fifteen Dogs, has been […]