Moyez G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. Before coming to Canada in 1978, he attended MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in theoretical nuclear physics. Fr…
Shani Mootoo, writer, visual artist and video maker, was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1957 to Trinidadian parents. She grew up in Trinidad and relocated at age 24 to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.…
Gurjinder Basran’s debut novel, Everything Was Good-bye, was the winner of Mother Tongue Publishing's “Search for the Great BC Novel Contest” in 2010 and was awarded the 2011 Ethel Wilson Fiction Priz…
It all began in a small sod hut on the Prairies .... no, it didn't. It began with my failure to do well in math, which led to journalism school, which led to the Globe and Mail, which led to interview…
Teresa Wong is the author of the graphic memoirs All Our Ordinary Stories (2024) and Dear Scarlet (2019). Her comics have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s and The Walrus. A teache…
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with t…
Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental heal…
Loghan Paylor is a queer, trans author who lives in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Their short fiction and essays have previously appeared in Room and prairiefire, among others. A graduate of …
Adelle Purdham (she/her) is an educator, parent disability advocate, and the author of the memoir-in-essays, I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press, 2024). Adelle’s essay…
