BookFest 2021 Authors

A scholar of the twentieth century with a specialization in Black Canadian history. Her research and teaching interests…

Natalie Baird is a visual artist, filmmaker, and community-based researcher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Natalie completed a bachelor…

A writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of twenty-three books of poetry, fiction and books for…

The disabled poem-making entity known as Roxanna Bennett gratefully resides on aboriginal land. They are the author of The…

originalee from lunaria still hopeing 2 undrstand erthling wayze   love sound n vizual poetree n all approaches 2…

Margaret Christakos is a widely published award-winning poet, fiction author, critic, and creative writing instructor. Her work has…

Franco Cortese is an experimental poet living in Thorold, Ontario. His poetry won the 2020 UNESCO Sustainability Poetry Prize, was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize and has appeared…

Marcello Di Cintio is the author of five books. Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa won the Henry Kriesel Award for…

Jesse Donaldson is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in VICE, The Tyee, The Calgary Herald,…

A Professor and a Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice at the University…

Catherine Fogarty is a storyteller. She is the founder and president of Big Coat Media, with offices in Toronto,…

Bevann Fox is a member of Pasqua First Nation, originally from Piapot First Nation. In 2012 she received…

Écrivain et rappeur, Biz est membre du groupe Loco Locass. Le trio a fait paraître quatre albums [Manifestif…

Canadian poet, photographer, journalist, and teacher. Gervais has also published plays, children’s books, non-fiction, and a book of…

Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in various…

A Winnipeg-based author of two collections of urban-nature poetry, both of which won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry….

G. A. Grisenthwaite is Nłeʔkepmx, member of the Lytton First Nation. His stories and poems have appeared in The…

Liz Howard’s debut collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the…

Dale Jacobs is the author of Graphic Encounters: Comics and the Sponsorship of Multimodal Literacy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). He is the…

Heidi LM Jacobs’ novel Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear (NeWest Press, 2019) won the…

R. Stacey Laforme is the elected Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN). Born and raised…

Michèle Laframboise saupoudre des grains de café sur ses plantes, court de longues distances en plus d’écrire à…

Grace Lau is a Hong-Kong-born, Chinese Canadian writer raised in Vancouver and currently living in Toronto. She enjoys…

Singer songwriter, folklorist Ron Leary’s smokey, rye-soaked voice is legendary throughout the Windsor and Southwestern Ontario region. Whether his songs…

John McDonald is a multi-disciplinary writer and artist originally from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. A sixth-generation direct descendant of Chief…

Nathaniel G. Moore was born in Toronto in 1974. He has lived and worked as a writer and…

Tolu Oloruntoba is the author of the Anstruther Press chapbook Manubrium. His poetry has appeared in Pleiades, Columbia Journal, Entropy,…

Gabriel Osson est poète, romancier et artiste-peintre. Né à Port-au-Prince (Haïti), il vit à Toronto. Retraité du ministère…

Naïma Oukerfellah est auteure de littérature pour enfants. ‘’L’enfance de Naïma, native d’Algérie, a été bercée par les…

Jael Richardson is the executive director of the FOLD literary festival, the books columnist on CBC Radio’s q…

Rochelle Riley ended a nearly 20-year career as an award-winning Detroit columnist in 2019 to become the City…

Vanessa Shields is the owner of Gertrude’s Writing Room—A Gathering Place for Writers. She is the author of Laughing…