NIELSEN, CARSTEN RENÉ

CARSTEN RENÉ NIELSEN is a Danish poet and the author of eleven books of poetry and one book of flash fiction. Three books have been published in the United States: The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors (selected prose poems, New Issues 2007), House Inspections (prose poems, BOA Editions 2011) and Forty-One Objects (prose poems, […]

NAY, ROZ

ROZ NAY is the author of two bestselling novels – Our Little Secret and Hurry Home. Our Little Secret, was a national bestseller, won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller in France, and was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery and the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award. Roz has lived and worked in Africa, […]

MCDAID, AMY

AMY MCDAID is the author of the best-selling novel Fake Baby. She has a Master of Creative Writing from The University of Auckland, where she was awarded the Sir James Wallace prize for Creative Writing. She lives in Waitakere City, New Zealand with her daughter and two crazy cats. When not writing, she works as […]

MANDEL, EMILY ST.JOHN

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL’s fifth novel, The Glass Hotel, was recently published in Canada and the US, and is forthcoming in the UK in August. Her previous novels include Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award among other honours, and has […]

LYON, ANNABEL

ANNABEL LYON is the author of seven books for adults and kids, including the internationally bestselling The Golden Mean, winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the Giller Prize, Governor General’s award, Amazon First Novel Award, BC Book Prize, and more. Her latest novel is Consent, published by Random House Canada. […]

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 […]

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 […]