CARLEIGH BAKER is an nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân /Icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwu7mesh, and səl̓ilwəta peoples. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Essays, The Short Story Advent Calendar, and The Journey Prize Stories. She also writes reviews for the Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings (Anvil, 2017) won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award, the Emerging Indigenous Voices Award for fiction, and the BC Book Prize Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award.

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LINDA CHENG was born in Taiwan and spent her childhood moving between cultures and continents. She received her BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and worked as an art director across South Carolina and Georgia where she developed a deep love for sweet tea, grits, and Southern Gothic stories. She currently resides in Vancouver, Canada with her family. Gorgeous Gruesome Faces is her debut novel.

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JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS is a #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novelist and author-illustrator of the critically acclaimed middle grade graphic novel Swim Team, which was longlisted for the National Book Award, was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Illustration, was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2022, and received a Jane Addams Book Award Honor.

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PETTI FONG is a journalist, educator and author. During the pandemic she created a podcast with interviews from experts around the world on the topic of isolation and loneliness. The podcast, Alone Together, has been downloaded by hundreds of thousands of listeners and heard in more than 30 countries. Petti lives in Vancouver.

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UMA KRISHNASWAMI was born in India. She has written numerous books for young readers, including Look! Look! a picture book about water and ancient step wells, and Birds on the Brain, a middle grade sequel to her bestselling book Uncle and Me. Uma is faculty emerita, MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Vermont College of Fine Arts. Many of her students have established successful writing careers.

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LI CHARMAINE ANNE (she/they) grew up in the unceded Coast Salish territories otherwise known as Vancouver, British Columbia where she currently lives, skates, writes, and makes music. Crash Landing is Charmaine’s first novel, and shorter works of hers have appeared in This Magazine, Plenitude Magazine, Currents: A Ricepaper Anthology, and more.

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ANTHONY NERADA became a writer after his fifth-grade teacher told him it was his destiny. Since then, he’s read too many books (if there is such a thing) and explored worlds far outside the reaches of his own. Anthony holds a BA in psychology and two diplomas (one in public relations, the other in publishing), which allow him to write the day away while simultaneously psychoanalyzing his friends. Anthony lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. His debut novel, Skater Boy, was named a Kids’ Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association.

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LINH S. NGUYỄN is a Vietnamese immigrant to Canada who straddles many intersecting worlds. Her stories revolve around home, liminality and living between cultures. She graduated from the University of Toronto as an English major and went on to pursue her master’s in Arts, Creativity and Education at the University of Cambridge.

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Born Deaf and raised in a hearing family, ADAM POTTLE spent much of his childhood searching for magical portals and pretending to be Godzilla. He is an award-winning Canadian writer, with books in multiple genres, including the acclaimed memoir Voice and the adult novel The Bus. His groundbreaking fantasy play The Black Drum was performed to rave reviews in Canada and France and is the world’s first all-Deaf musical. He has a PhD in English Literature and has taught English and Creative Writing for nearly twenty years. He lives in Saskatoon with his wife Deborah and their goldendoodle Valkyrie.

Adam Pottle is booked for an event at BC School for the Deaf, and is not available for additional events.

SARAH MUGHAL RANA is a Muslim author who graduated from the University of Toronto and is now pursuing her MPhil in Asian studies at Oxford. She works at the intersection of human rights and Asian policy. She is a BookTok personality and the cohost of On the Write Track podcast. Outside of school, she falls down history rabbit holes and trains in traditional martial arts.

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TRINA RATHGEBER is a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and grew up in Thompson, Manitoba, where she did all the things that northern kids do, from playing hockey and fishing to building forts in the woods. She enjoys writing for children and is the author of French Fries Are Potatoes and The Bunnies Talk Money. Trina lives in Calgary with her family.

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STEPHANIE ELLEN SY is a writer with a degree in international relations and Asian studies from Tufts University. She was inspired to write A Roof! by her experiences growing up in Hong Kong and the Philippines, where destructive typhoons are a regular occurrence. When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about her next meal or planning her next hike.

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MELISSA YUE loves all things spooky and can often be found obsessively researching ghost stories over bubble tea. Her work is informed by her experiences in the Chinese-Canadian diaspora community, her previous career in education, and all her nerdy interests. She views her writing as a way to connect to her roots.

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MYRIAM J.A. CHANCY, award-winning author of What Storm, What Thunder and Village Weavers, is a Haitian-Canadian-American writer, the HBA Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College in Claremont, California and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Myriam J.A. Chancy is booked for a Writers in the Classroom event at SFU Department of World Languages and Literatures, and is not available for additional events.