Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a visual artist, storyteller and public speaker. Raised on Haida Gwaii, he melds cultural hybridity and his political experiences as an Indigenous person with contemporary graphic literature […]
Q&A 2026
Q&A with Norma Dunning
Norma Dunning (PhD) is a Padlei Inuk writer, professor and grandmother. Her short story collection Tainna (The Unseen Ones) won the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and Kinauvit? […]
Q&A with Mark Leiren-Young
Mark Leiren-Young is a writer, documentary filmmaker, playwright, podcaster and orca activist. Mark hosts Skaana, a podcast about orca and ocean stories, and is actively involved in the fight for the survival […]
Q&A with Hannalora Leavitt
Hannalora Leavitt has a master’s degree in writing from the University of Victoria. She has been legally blind since the age of 11 due to a cancerous brain tumor that damaged […]
Q&A with Elizabeth Philips
Elizabeth Philips is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Time of the Great Singing. Her novel The Afterlife of Birds won the City of Saskatoon Book Award and was a […]
Q&A with Natalie Southworth
Natalie Southworth’s award-winning stories have appeared in literary journals in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. Originally from England, she has lived all over Canada and today makes her home […]
Q&A with Karin Cope
Karin Cope is a Canadian poet, activist, artist and professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design who spends part of each year at sea. Previous publications include Passionate […]
Q&A with Neil Griffin
Raised on the prairies and trained as a wildlife biologist, for over a decade Neil Griffin tracked the disappearing and the dead of our world, from Canada’s boreal forests to […]
Q&A with Monique Gray Smith
Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author of books for children and adults as well as an accomplished international speaker and consultant. Of Cree and Scottish descent, she has been […]
Q&A with Zoe Dickinson
Zoe Dickinson lives on the unceded lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples on Vancouver Island, where she is a manager at Russell Books and artistic director emerita of the Planet Earth […]
Q&A with Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St John Mandel is the author of six previous novels, including Sea of Tranquility; The Glass Hotel, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize; and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for […]
Q&A with Troy Wilson
Troy Wilson is best known as the author of the beloved and bestselling picture book Perfect Man, but he has also written numerous kids’ stories for Chickadee, Chirp, and Highlights […]