Authors
Kelley Armstrong 
Kelley Armstrong is the bestselling author of the Otherworld series and the New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers trilogy, which includes The Summoning, The Awakening, and The Reckoning. Kelley has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead girls and evil dolls, much to her teachers’ dismay. All efforts to make her produce “normal” stories failed. Today, she continues to spin tales of ghosts and demons and werewolves, while safely locked away in her basement writing-dungeon. She lives in southwestern Ontario with her husband, kids and far too many pets. You can visit her online at www.darkestpowers.com.
Giles Blunt 
Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario, a child of parents he likes to describe as ‘British Beyond Belief’. He started his writing career writing poems, getting a few published in literary magazines like Grain and Poetry Canada. In 1980, he moved to New York City, where he lived and worked for over twenty years. There he wrote television scripts for Law & Order, Street Legal, and Night Heat, as well as the pilot for a TV show called Diamonds. Giles is the author of Cold Eye, a bleak, Faustian tale set in the New York art scene. It was optioned by Hollywood producer Larry Turman and director Wes Craven. Blunt’s crime novel, Forty Words for Sorrow, features detective John Cardinal, and is the first mystery set in the fictional northern Ontario town of Algonquin Bay. It won the Macallan Silver Dagger award in 2001. Crime Machine is the long-awaited, most recent installment in this bestselling series. Giles now lives in Toronto, and is currently working on his next John Cardinal book, as well as a couple of other stories.
Randy Boyagoda 
Randy Boyagoda is a writer, critic and scholar. His debut novel, Governor of the Northern Province, was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006. He is also a frequent contributor to publications such as Harper’s, The New York Times, The Walrus, National Post and The Globe and Mail. His second novel, Beggar’s Feast, was published in April 2011. It has won comparisons to The Great Gatsby and The Adventures of Augie March in a review that appeared in The Globe and Mail. A novel about family, pride and ambition, set on a gorgeous, troubled island caught between tradition and modernity, Beggar’s Feast establishes Boyagoda as a major voice in international literature. Randy is a professor of American literature at Ryerson University in Toronto, and is writing a biography of Richard John Neuhaus.
Trevor Cole 
Trevor Cole is an award-winning magazine journalist and author. He spent 15 years working at The Globe and Mail, working first as an editor, and finally as a senior writer for the Report on Business Magazine. Two of his novels, Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life, and The Fearsome Particles, were short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Trevor’s most recent novel, Practical Jean, was published in September 2010. It was short-listed for the Rogers Writer’s Trust Fiction prize, and recently won the 2011 Leacock Medal for Humour. In 2006, Trevor created the website AuthorsAloud.com, dedicated to presenting short audio readings by Canadian poets and authors of literary fiction. He also hosts an AuthorsAloud podcast, available for download on iTunes. Cole currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and continues to write freelance for Toronto Life, Report on Business Magazine, and other publications.
Seán Cullen Seán Cullen has been a comedian for over twenty years, and has toured all over the world, both as a member of Corky and the Juice Pigs and as a solo performer. He is a three-time Gemini Award winner, has been nominated twice for the Edinburgh Fringe Perrier Award, and has won multiple Canadian Comedy Awards. Seán has performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Just for Laughs, on Comedy Central and The Comedy Network. He has also hosted a show for CBC Radio One, called Simply Seán. As a writer, he has contributed to several animated series Maurice Sendak’s Seven Little Monsters, 6Teen, Grossology, Best Ed and Monster Warriors. He wrote and produced his own series, The Seán Cullen Show, for the CBC. Seán is the author of several novels, including The Prince of Neither Here Nor There, and the award winning Hamish X trilogy for young adults. His latest novel, The Prince of Two Tribes, is scheduled for release this September.
Camilla Gibb 
Camilla Gibb was born in London, England, and grew up in Toronto. She earned a BA in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Toronto, completed her Ph.D. in social anthropology at Oxford University in 1997, and spent two years at the University of Toronto as a post-doctoral research fellow before becoming a full-time writer. It took Camilla only eight weeks to write her first novel, Mouthing the Words, which won the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000. Her second novel, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, became a national bestseller and was selected by The Globe and Mail as one of the “Best Books of the Year” in 2002. Her fourth and latest novel, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, was released in August, 2010. Set in Vietnam, it encompasses themes such as lost love, forgotten memories, changing values, displacement and family. Camilla has been writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta. She is currently an adjunct faculty member of the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph.
Wayne Johnston 
Wayne Johnston grew up in Goulds, Newfoundland. He obtained a BA in English literature from Memorial University, as well as an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick. Wayne worked as a reporter for the St. John’s Daily News before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing. Wayne’s first book, The Story of Bobby O’Malley, was published when he was only 27 years old, and won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel award. Wayne has since written several books, including national bestseller The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, and The Navigator of New York. His novel The Divine Ryans was adapted to the big screen, starring Academy Award winner Pete Postelwaithe. Wayne wrote the movie’s screenplay. Wayne’s latest novel, A World Elsewhere, will be available on August 9, 2011, both in hardcover and as an eBook. It is an astounding work of literature that questions the loyalties of friends, family and the heart. It has all the hallmarks of Wayne’s most beloved and acclaimed novels.
