Author Spotlights

Author Spotlight: Shauntay Grant
Shauntay Grant is a spoken word artist, poet, children’s writer, playwright, musician and choir director. Everything she does is

Author spotlight: John Graham-Pole
John Graham-Pole graduated from University of London College of Medicine in 1966 and was a clinician, teacher, and researcher

Author spotlight: Louise Michalos
Born in Musquodoboit Harbour and raised in Halifax, Louise Michalos brings an authentic voice to Marilla Cuthbert’s story. The

Author spotlight: Angela Bowden
TEDx speaker, writer, and activist, Angela Bowden is a descendent of the stolen Africans sold through the Trans-Atlantic slave

Author spotlight: Philip Moscovitch
Philip Moscovitch is a writer and audio producer living in Glen Margaret, Nova Scotia. He is the author of

Author spotlight: Michelle Sylliboy
Michelle Sylliboy is a Two-Spirited L’nu (Mi’kmaw) artist, and Assistant Professor at St.FX University in N.S. in three departments:

Author spotlight: Nolan Natasha
Nolan Natasha is a queer and trans writer, performer, and filmmaker. Of Faroese and English ancestry, Nolan is a

Author spotlight: Virginia Konchan
Virginia Konchan is the author of three poetry collections, Hallelujah Time (Véhicule Press, 2021), Any God Will Do and The

Author spotlight: Jane Doucet
Jane Doucet is a journalist whose articles have appeared in myriad national magazines, including Chatelaine and Canadian Living. In

Author spotlight: Becca Babcock
Becca Babcock grew up in Alberta, but since 2005, she’s lived just outside of Halifax with her husband Trent,

Author spotlight: Chad Lucas
Chad Lucas has been in love with words since he attempted his first novel on a typewriter in the

Author spotlight: Joanne Gallant
Joanne Gallant is a pediatric nurse and writer. She is a graduate of Mount Allison University and the University

Author spotlight: Jacqueline Dumas
Jacqueline Dumas’s latest novel is The Heart Begins Here (Inanna Publications, 2018). Her previous writing includes two published novels:

Author spotlight: Deborah Hemming
Deborah Hemming lives and writes in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She holds an MA in English from McGill University, a

Author spotlight: Tyler LeBlanc
Tyler LeBlanc is a historian, storyteller, and author based in E’se’katik (Lunenburg), Nova Scotia. He has bachelor degrees in

Author spotlight: Rebecca Rose
Rebecca Rose is a Cape Breton-born queer femme writer and activist who lives in Dartmouth with her partner and