Nathaniel
G. Moore is a recipient of at least 5 Ontario Arts Council Grants (Writer's
Reserve) and author of Bowlbrawl (Conundrum), Let's Pretend
We Never Met (Pedlar), and is an editor at both Danforth Review
and Broken Pencil Magazine, and co-editor of the collection Toronto
Noir (Akashic). His work has recently appeared in Canadian Literature,
Books in Canada, Danforth Review, Word, Globe
& Mail and This Magazine. He has performed his poetry
and ficton on CBC's ZeD TV and lived in Waterloo where he researched Catullus
for nearly 6 years (1996-2001).
photo by John W. MacDonald. source: http://www.criticalcrushes.blogspot.com
Check out his blog, Critical Crushes.
Emma
Donoghue is originally from Ireland and lives in London, Ontario. Her most
recent books are Touchy Subjects (2006), a collection of short
stories on taboos, which ranges from Canada to Ireland to Italy, and Landing
(2007), a contemporary novel. Hood (1995) won the 1997 American
Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award, while
her historical novel Slammerkin (2000) won the 2002 Ferro-Grumley
Award for Lesbian Fiction, and was a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish
Fiction Prize. Her novels have been translated into ten languages. She has
also written several plays for stage and radio. Her novel The Sealed
Letter (2008) has recently been longlisted for the Giller Prize.
photo source: http://www.emmadonoghue.com/contact.htm
Check out her website: http://www.emmadonoghue.com
Lawrence
Hill's most recent novel, The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins; entitled
Someone Knows My Name in the US), won the 2008 Commonweath Writers'
Prize for Best Book, the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and is
a pick for CBC's Canada Reads 2009. A former journalist, he has also written
remarkable non-fiction, including Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being
Black and White in Canada, and The Deserter's Tale: the Story of
an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, co-authored
with Joshua Key, chosen by Quill and Quire as one of the top ten books published
in Canada in 2007.
photo source: http://www.lawrencehill.com/bio.html
Check out his website: http://www.lawrencehill.com
Along with the Canada Council and the St. Jerome's English Department, Hill's reading is also supported by the St. Jerome's Centre for Responsible Citizenship.
David
McFadden has been writing for five decades, and has just released a Selected
Poems, entitled Why Are You So Sad? (2007), edited by Stuart Ross
and published by Insomniac Press. This has been shortlisted for the Griffin
Poetry Prize. His Gypsy Guitar (which George Bowering has called
"everybody's favourite book of poetry") was nominated for the
Governor General's Award in 1988. His most recent book of new poetry is
Five Star Planet (Talonbooks, 2002) and he has also written travel
literature with inimitable quirky humour in the Trip series, and then the
Innocent series, most recently, An Innocent in Cuba (2005). He
lives in Toronto.
The reading will be followed by a Wine & Cheese Launch at the St. Jerome's Art Gallery for McFadden's new book of poetry, Be Calm, Honey.
photo by McFadden; source http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/mcfadden/index.htm
K.
V. Johansen is the author of three series of young adult novels (Torrie
from Annick, Cassandra Virus and Warlocks of Talverdin
from Orca) and the Pippin series of children's books (Kids Can). Nightwalker
made the Ontario Library Association's 2007 top ten "Best
Bets" for Children list. Snake-Prince was nominated for the
2008 Silver Birch Award, while Nightwalker received the 2008 Ann
Connor Brimer Award. A medievalist, Johansen draws on history in her fiction,
and has published a collection of short stories based on Danish ballads,
The Serpent Bride (Thistledown, 1997); her latest collection, Storyteller
(2008) includes reimaginings of the Battle of Maldon and the fall of Arthur's
Britain. She has also written two histories of children's fantasy literature:Quests
and Kingdoms (2005), and Beyond Window Dressing: Canadian Children's
Fantasy at the Millennium (2007). She is currently living in Sackville,
New Brunswick and working as a librarian.
photo courtesy of the author
Check out her website: http://www.pippin.ca
Camilla Gibb
is the author of three novels, plus numerous short stories and articles.
Sweetness in the Belly (Doubleday, 2005) was a Giller Prize nominee
and the winner of the Trillium Book Award in 2006. Mouthing the Words
(Pedlar, 1999) won the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000. Gibb received
the CBC Literary Award for short fiction in 2001. Published in 18 countries,
she was named by the jury of the Orange Prize as one of 21 writers to watch
in the new century. She has been an adjunct faculty member at the University
of Toronto (Creative Writing program), and is currently living in England.
photo source http://www.camillagibb.ca
Check out her website: http://www.camillagibb.ca
See an interview about the Spring Festival on the St. Jerome's Morning Show, March 9th edition: http://sju.ca/current/morning_show.html
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