Carly Brown
Carly Brown is an award-winning writer from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Chronicle One is the first book in The Celine Bower Story series, with Chronicle Two coming soon.
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Christine Baldacchino
Christine Baldacchino is a graphic artist and web designer with a background in early childhood education. Her picture book Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress was a Stonewall Honor recipient and the winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Best Picture Book. She lives with her husband in Toronto.
Carmen Mok
Carmen Mok is a studio-art graduate of the University of Waterloo, and a crafts and design graduate of Sheridan College. She recently illustrated Grandmother’s Visit by Betty Quan, which was selected for the OLA Best Bets List. Carmen lives in St. Catharines, Ontario. For more information visit www.carmenmokstudio.com.
Cary Fagan
Cary Fagan is an award-winning author of books for children and adults. He has won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children’s Literature, the Jewish Book Award, the IODE Jean Throop Book Award, and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, among others, including an OLA Best Bet. For more information visit caryfagan.com.
Brenda Chapman
Brenda Chapman is an Ottawa crime fiction author with over 20 published novels. In addition to short stories and standalones, she has written the lauded Stonechild and Rouleau police procedural series, the Anna Sweet mystery novellas, and the Jennifer Bannon mysteries for middle grade. For more information visit www.brendachapman.ca.
Bridget Liang
Bridget Liang is a mixed race, queer, transfeminine, autistic, disabled, fat fangirl. They came into their queerness in Hamilton, Ontario, and co-founded RADAR Youth Group at the LGBTQ Wellness Centre (the Well), the first queer group in a Hamilton high school.
Colleen Nelson
Colleen Nelson earned her Bachelor of Education from the University of Manitoba in her hometown of Winnipeg. In 2019, her novel Sadia won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award. Colleen writes daily in between appearances at hockey rinks and soccer fields in support of her two sons. For more information visit www.colleennelsonauthor.com.
Aimee Reid
Aimee Reid has written picture books, but You Are My Friend is her first nonfiction venture. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her family. For more information visit www.aimeereidbooks.com.
Alisha Sevigny
Alisha Sevigny is the author of the acclaimed YA novels Summer Constellations and Kissing Frogs. The Lost Scroll of the Physician is the first book in the Secrets of the Sands series. Alisha lives in Toronto. For more information visit www.alishasevigny.com.
Amy McCulloch
Amy McCulloch was born in the UK, raised in Canada, and currently lives in London. She is also the author of The Oathbreaker’s Shadow duology and The Potion Diaries series. For more information visit amymcculloch.net/.
Ani Castillo
Ani Castillo is a cartoonist, illustrator, and teacher who was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and now lives in Canada. For more information visit www.anicastillo.com.
Bev Katz Rosenbaum
Bev Katz Rosenbaum is the author of several works of fiction. She has worked in-house as an editor for book publishers and magazines and has taught writing at the college level. Currently she juggles writing children’s books with freelance editing. Bev lives in Toronto.
Becky Blake
Becky Blake is a two-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize. Her work has appeared in publications across Canada. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education. Becky currently lives in Toronto where she’s working on a second novel and a memoir-in-essays. For more information visit www.beckyblake.ca.
Alex A
Alex A. has always written and drawn. He came up with the character of Jon Le Bon when he was 11 years old (same age as the series’ fans are today!). Over the years, he has surrounded his lovable anti-hero with colourful sidekicks and thrown them into outrageous situations. For more information visit https://www.groupemodus.com/en/authors/.
Alex O’Brien
Alex O’Brien left a career in human resources to write novels, scripts, and songs. He has been a finalist and winner of several writing competitions. He is the author of the Lorimer sports story The Playmaker. Alex lives in Parry Sound, Ontario.
Alisa Siegel
Alisa Siegel makes radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her work has been recognized with many international awards. She lives in Toronto with her family.
André Babyn
André Babyn has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. His short fiction has appeared in Maisonneuve, the Fanzine, Hobart, Grain, and elsewhere. He lives in Toronto. For more information visit andrebabyn.com.
Andrea Gunraj
Andrea Gunraj is the author of The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha (Knopf Canada). She is also a contributing essayist to the collection Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity (Coach House Books). She lives in Toronto.
Angela Misri
Angela Misri is an author and journalist of Indian descent. She was born in London, UK and briefly lived in Buenos Aires before moving to Canada in 1982. Angela is the author of the Portia Adams Adventures series. Angela currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. For more information visit angelamisri.com.
Bobbie Kalman
Widely recognized by educators as the author of more than 800 quality children’s curriculum-based books, Bobbie Kalman has created many of Crabtree Publishing’s most popular series.
Annette Kussin
Annette Kussin has a Masters Degree in Social Work, is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, and an advanced Attachment Focused Therapist. She has worked in children’s mental health for over 30 years as a therapist, supervisor, manager, and clinical director. For more information visit www.anettekussintherapy.com.
Adrienne Kress
Adrienne Kress is a Toronto-born actor and writer. Her books include the award-winning and internationally published novels Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate, and Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the H.A.T.B.O.X. (with bestselling author Frank Beddor), and more! For more information visit www.AdrienneKress.com.
Amanda Leduc
Amanda Leduc works as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity, Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and stories. She is the author of the novels The Miracles of Ordinary Men and the forthcoming The Centaur’s Wife. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, ON. For more information visit http://www.amandaleduc.com/site/.
Andrea Lynn Beck
Andrea Lynn Beck has published 18 picture books, including the bestselling Goodnight, Canada series. She is the creator of the Elliot Moose series and the Pierre le Poof series. Andrea lives in Unionville, Ontario. For more information visit www.andreabeck.com.
Barbara Reid
Barbara Reid is the award-winning author and illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, and the illustrator of over 25. In 2013 she became a member of the Order of Canada, and in 2015 she was named Honorary Chair of Family Literacy Day. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. For more information visit www.barbarareid.ca.
Barbara Fradkin
Barbara Fradkin is a retired child psychologist and award-winning Canadian mystery writer. She writes the Amanda Doucette mystery series, and the easy-read Cedric O’Toole mysteries for emerging and reluctant adult readers. Two of her critically acclaimed Inspector Green novels, Fifth Son and Honour Among Men, have won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. For …
A.G. Pasquella
A.G. Pasquella’s writing has appeared in various spots including McSweeney’s, Wholphin, The Believer, Black Book, Broken Pencil, and Little Brother. When he’s not writing, A.G. makes music with his bands Miracle Beard and LASERGNU. He lives in Toronto with his wife and their two children.
Jeffrey Kiyoshk Ross
Jeffrey Kiyoshk Ross is an Ontario Certified teacher with over 20 years of communications, journalism, and marketing experience working with First Nation communities and organizations in Ontario. He’s been fortunate to teach in Pikangikum, Pickle Lake, and Thunder Bay, develop and deliver curriculum that is informed by the FNIM diverse histories and cultures, and develop …
Mary McIntyre
Mary McIntyre has spent her career with the published collections at LAC, starting with hands-on preservation of materials, then overall preservation management of the collection, and is currently a manager in the Acquisitions Division of Published Heritage Branch. Her section oversees all of the ways, other than legal deposit, that publications are added to the …
Jennine Agnew Kata
Jennine Agnew-Kata is the Executive Director of the Literacy Network of Durham Region. With a twenty five year history in the literacy and basic skills sector as a project manager, practitioner, trainer and basic skills assessor, she has developed considerable experience in the area of program service planning, program evaluation and local partnership development. In …
Terry Fan
Terry Fan and Eric Fan are brothers who made their debut with the acclaimed picture book The Night Gardener, which they wrote and illustrated together. For more information visit www.thefanbrothers.com.
André Babyn
André Babyn is a writer and editor who lives in Toronto. His first novel, Evie of the Deepthorn, will be published in February 2020 by Dundurn Press. Evie of the Deepthorn is a novel about small towns, art, and loneliness. Miriam Toews calls it a “stunning work” that is “layered with mystery, poetry, suffering and hope.”
C.S. O’Cinneide
C.S. O’Cinneide is a Canadian writer of crime fiction and literary horror, as well as the writer of a blog, She Kills Lit, featuring women authors. Her debut novel, Petra’s Ghost, was a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for 2019. It has been featured in the Toronto Star as one of the best horror …