Author Spotlights

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

Author spotlight: Anne Simpson
Anne Simpson’s third novel, Speechless, and her second book of essays, Experiments in Distant Influence, came out in 2020.

Author spotlight: Morgan Murray
Morgan Murray grew up on a farm near the same backwoods central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning.

Author spotlight: Francesa Ekwuyasi
Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer and multidisciplinary artist from Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness,

Author spotlight: Genevieve Graham
Genevieve Graham moved to Nova Scotia in 2008 and fell in love with the integral history woven into every

Author spotlight: Allison Watson
Allison Watson believes in living every day to the fullest. Raised in Petitcodiac, New Brunswick, she had an active

Author spotlight: Amy Spurway
Originally from Cape Breton and now based in Dartmouth, Amy Spurway is a writer, performer, and editor. She has worked

Author spotlight: Ian Colford
Based in Halifax, Ian Colford writes short fiction, novels, and literary criticism. His first book, the short fiction collection Evidence (Porcupine’s Quill,

Author spotlight: Marq de Villiers
Marq de Villiers is a journalist and the author of more than a dozen books. His vision and skill

Author spotlight: Anne C. Kelly
Anne Kelly’s first published novel is Jacques’ Escape, released by Trap Door Books in 2019. But she has been reading

Author spotlight: Jen Powley
Jen Powley is a prairie girl living in Canada’s ocean playground. Since moving to Halifax in 2001, she has