Veronika Martenova Charles, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was a popular teenage pop recording artist in eastern Europe before settling in Toronto and becoming an author and illustrator of children's books. Since 1991, she has been writing and illustrating children's books full…

Karen Charleson is a mother, a grandmother, a writer, and an educator. Her first novel Through Different Eyes was published by Signature Editions in 2017.  Karen is a member, through marriage, of the Hesquiaht First Nation and the House of Kinquashtakumtlth. She lives in…

J.G. Chayko is a writer from Vancouver B.C. who has published poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. She is a contributing writer to three anthologies and has several short works in print and online. Her work has appeared in Event Magazine, Canadian Stories, Hastings…

SYLV CHIANG (she/her) is a middle-grade teacher by day and a children’s book author by night. She wrote her middle-grade series, Cross Ups, for kids who love video games. Still My Tessa is Sylv’s first picture book and the inspiration for the story came from within her own…

LUCIAN CHILDS is a fiction writer whose debut, Dreaming Home (Biblioasis 2023), won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction. He was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and a finalist…

Nancy Chislett is an avid traveler, having visited almost 50 countries on six continents. She also plays classical music on piano and composes a little jazz. Career-wise, she has worked as a high school teacher and as a university administrator of an international student…

Originally from South Korea, Ann Yu-Kyung Choi is a Toronto-based author and educator. Her novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, was a Toronto Book Awards finalist and One of CBC Books 12 Best Canadian Debut Novels of 2016. Her published essays explore issues around cultural and…

Kevin Chong is the author of seven books, most recently the novel The Double Life of Benson Yu. He was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, where he presently lives with his family. He is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He reads and…

Bob Chrismas, PhD, writes prolifically on justice issues. Bob is a Staff Sergeant in his 34th year with the Winnipeg Police Service. He completed his Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the U. of Winnipeg and U. of Manitoba in 2009 (distinction) and Doctorate (Ph.D.) in…

TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN graduated as a Commonwealth Scholar from King’s College, Cambridge. He served as a law professor and Dean at the Faculty of Law at The University of Alberta and a visiting professor in Japan and Taiwan. Christian read A Moveable Feast in the cafes of Aix-en-…

Dr. Theodore Christou is a Professor of Social Studies and History Education at Queen’s University as well as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Education. Theodore is a poet, historian, and philosopher of education. As an interdisciplinary education…

Dana is a trained scientist who is passionate about making science accessible for both children and adults. She is the author of four nonfiction books:  The Beekeepers: How Humans Changed the World of Bumble Bees (Scholastic Focus, 2021) Animal Minds: What Are They Thinking? (…

Maria Cichosz is a novelist and scholar of art, theory, drug cultures, and the history of ideas. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Thought & Literature from Stanford University where she was recently a Humanities & Sciences Postdoctoral Dean’s Fellow. Maria currently teaches…

A nonconformist, having fought censorship in literature in his former totalitarian homeland of Czechoslovakia, he has had two of his book-length manuscripts destroyed, himself having been persecuted and eventually sentenced to a two-year prison term. Embraced by freedom offered…

Maria was born and educated in Calgary, Alberta.  She received her doctorate from Cambridge University and has published in her research area of British sixteenth century socio-legal history.  Her story of family, cultural identity and Calgary, Spaghetti Western: How My Father…

Carmela Circelli was born in southern Italy and grew up in Montreal. She moved to Toronto in 1976 to study philosophy. She has been teaching on contract in the Philosophy and Humanities department of York University since 1990. She also has a private paractice as a…