Sylvain Neuvel dropped out of high school at age 15. Along the way, he has been a journalist, worked in soil decontamination, sold ice cream in California, and peddled furniture across Canada. He received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. He taught linguistics in India, and worked… Read more
Shirley Meier has been writing professionally since the 1980s and lives in Toronto. She is launching her latest book, ‘Blood Marble’, a Fifth Millenium fantasy, later this year and is working on a YA novel to come out early next year. As well as being an award-winning author, she is… Read more
Derek Künsken writes science fiction, fantasy and horror in Gatineau, Québec. His short fiction has appeared in top markets like Asimov’s, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Clarkesworld, in several year’s best anthologies and in foreign translations. His debut novel, The Quantum Magician, was nominated for the Locus, Aurora and Chinese… Read more
Matt Moore is an Aurora Award-winning author, poet and columnist. His collection It’s Not the End and Other Lies was published by ChiZine Publications in 2018. He’s also a Contributing Editor for AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, Co-Chair of the Ottawa Chiaroscuro Reading Series, and a frequent panelist, presenter… Read more
Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer and editor, and the co-publisher of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning press, ChiZine Publications. Born in Estonia to an Estonian mother and Sri Lankan father, she now lives in Canada. She is the co-founder (with Helen Marshall) of the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium… Read more
Born in Halifax, N.S., raised (mostly) in Kingston ON, Tanya Huff lives in rural Ontario, with her wife Fiona Patton seven cats and two dogs. Her 32 novels and 79 short stories include horror, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, comedy, and space opera. Her Blood series was turned into the 22… Read more
Sheila E. Gilbert has worked in publishing for 49 years, starting at Ace Books in 1970, then moving to Signet/NAL in 1972, where she ran the Signet science fiction line. In 1985, Sheila joined DAW Books where she is the executive vice president, and co-owner and co-publisher with Betsy Wollheim…. Read more
Kevin Hearne is the author of A Plague of Giants and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series The Iron Druid Chronicles, and of Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi. He hugs trees, pets doggies, and rocks out to heavy metal. He also thinks tacos are a… Read more
Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales… Read more
David Demchuk has been writing for print, stage, digital and other media for nearly 40 years. His debut horror novel The Bone Mother won the 2018 Sunburst Award in the Adult Fiction category, and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Toronto Book Award… Read more