Matt Moore is an author of horror and dark science fiction who’s been writing stories since he could clutch a #2 pencil and carve block letters into handwriting paper. His short fiction, poems and nonfiction have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, and his collection “It’s Not the… Read more
Born in Halifax, N.S., raised (mostly) in Kingston ON, Tanya Huff lives in rural Ontario, with her wife Fiona Patton nine cats and two dogs. Her 32 novels and 78 short stories include horror, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, comedy, and space opera. Her Blood series was turned into the 22… Read more
Charles de Lint is the author of more than eighty adult, young adult, and children’s books. Renowned as a trailblazer of the modern fantasy genre, de Lint has won the World Fantasy, Aurora (three times), Sunburst and White Pine awards, among others. His first adult fantasy novel in eight years,… 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
Eric Choi is an aerospace engineer, writer and editor. He was the first winner of the Isaac Asimov Award (now the Dell Magazines Award) and has twice won the Prix Aurora Award for his short story “Crimson Sky” and for the Chinese-themed anthology The Dragon and the Stars co-edited with… Read more
Hayden Hayden Trenholm is an award-winning playwright, novelist and short story writer. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies and on CBC radio. His first novel, A Circle of Birds, won the 3-Day Novel Writing competition in 1993; it was recently translated and published in French. His… Read more
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, worked as a software engineer in Montreal,… Read more
Julie is a returning GOH of Can*Con, and looks forward to more Shenanigans of the Best Sort. She’s an editor and author of SF/F, published by DAW Books, NY, and friendly sort. Come chat with her about writing, creativity, and all that stuff. Not to mention biology, natural history, and… Read more
Robert J. Sawyer has won the best novel Hugo and Nebula Awards, plus, most recently, the 2017 Robert A. Heinlein Award and both the 2017 Best Novel Aurora Award (for “Quantum Night”) and the Best of the Decade Aurora Award (for his trilogy that began with “Hominids”). The ABC TV… Read more
Can*Con is very excited to be welcoming Kurestin Armada as our 2018 Agent Guest of Honour! Her client list is riddled with authors who are carving out an exciting part of the field, and she’ll be sharing her experience on panels and in a kaffeeklatsch! This is the third time… Read more