Melissa Yi, also known as Melissa Yuan-Innes, escapes from her work as an emergency physician by writing her way into different worlds, from a Chinese Cinderella to the critically acclaimed Hope Sze medical thrillers to her bestselling memoir, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the…

Farida Zaman is an illustrator for 16 books and author illustrator of 3 books- “ALIYA’S SECRET- A STORY OF RAMADAN” (Owl Books) 2023  “MEENA CAN’T WAIT” (Orca Books) - spring 2024. Recently Farida has signed 2 more book deals with OWL BOOKS publish dates spring and fall 2026 “I…

Chro is a Kurdish Canadian freelance writer who currently lives in Toronto.  She is the author of, Chro Is My Name, her memoir published in 2021. Her story of Chro Is My Name, is included in the School of Continuing Studies program in the University of Toronto curriculum. she…

Richard was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has lived in various cities in North America but settled back in his home town in 2002. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Manitoba. His first book, Hiding Scars, is a historical fiction novel and was…

Alex is the author of “Becoming Coastal – Twenty-five years of exploration and discovery of the BC Coast by paddle, oar and sail” and numerous magazine articles about boats, boatbuilding and the people who sail them. Alex has been an avid outdoorsman and sailor all his adult…

Author of  At the Pond (Scholastic 2019) , Snow Day (Scholastic 1999) and the Alphonse series of books, Werner also illustrates for other authors: Helaine Becker ( 2014 Libris Award winner 2010  Porcupine in a Pine Tree) and Jean Little (2003 Mr Christie Award winner Pippin the…

Alice Zorn lives in Montreal. Her collection of short fiction, Ruins & Relics, was shortlisted for the 2009 Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Prize. In 2011 she published a novel, Arrhythmia, with NeWest Press. Her second novel, Five Roses, appeared with Dundurn Press in…

Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past twenty years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco. He juggles his…

A full-time writer since 1981, Mark Zuehlke has emerged in recent years as one of Canada’s leading new writers of military history. A prolific writer, he is the author of more than twenty books and before turning his attention primarily to book writing in 1992 had published…

By the age of ten Eric Zweig was already a budding sports fanatic who was filling his school news books with game reports instead of current events. He has been writing professionally about sports and sports history since graduating from Trent University in 1985 with a degree in…