2025 Festival: October 20–26
Books & Ideas runs until June!

Merilyn Simonds

Ontario

MERILYN SIMONDS is author of twenty books, including Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay. She writes in a wide variety of genres—personal essay, memoir, travel, literary fiction and creative nonfiction, including The Convict Lover, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction.

2025 Reading List: