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
Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages. His latest fantasy/science fiction novel for DAW Books, Worldshaper, will be brand-new at Can-Con, having released in mid-September; it’s the start of a new series, Worldshapers and also… Read more
Derek Künsken writes science fiction and fantasy in Gatineau, Québec. His short fiction has appeared frequently in Asimov’s magazine, various year’s best anthologies, and he won the 2012 Asimov’s Readers’ Award. His first novel The Quantum Magician, a hard SF Ocean’s Eleven, was serialized in Analog Magazine early in 2018…. Read more
David Demchuk has been writing for performance, print and digital media for nearly 40 years, and has a special interest in queerness and monstrosity. In 2017, his debut novel The Bone Mother was the first horror novel to be nominated for the prestigious Giller Prize. It was also nominated for… Read more
Violette Malan is the author of the Dhulyn and Parno sword-and-sorcery series (now available in omnibus editions) and The Mirror Lands series of primary world fantasies. As VM Escalada, she’s the author of the Faraman Prophecy series, Halls of Law, and Gift of Griffins. She’s on Facebook, she’s on Twitter,… Read more
Brett Savory recently stepped down as the Co-Publisher of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning ChiZine Publications so he could dedicate more time to writing. His title is now Editor/eBook Czar/Webmaster, so he apparently thinks he can hang on in the company simply by increasing the titles he holds…. Read more
Mark Robinson is a Canadian adventurer, storm chaser, and meteorologist. Recently named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Explorers by Canadian Geographic, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Mark has chased (and has been chased) by tornadoes across Canada and the United States. Mark has… 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
Derek Newman-Stille is an academic, reviewer, interviewer, and Canadian SF commentator who runs the 7 time Aurora Award-winning website Speculating Canada (www.speculatingcanada.ca), which examines Canadian speculative fiction. Derek teaches and researches at Trent University, but believes in the importance of sharing ideas and research in openly accessible ways. Speculating Canada… Read more
Jay Odjick is an Anishinabe writer and artist from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Algonquin Nation in Quebec. After KAGAGI: The Raven was published by Arcana Comics, Jay co-founded a production company that produced a television series called Kagagi based on the graphic novel and is an executive producer on the… Read more