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Moose Javian Angie Abdou has published seven books and co-edited two collections of critical essays on Canadian Sport Literature. Her novel The Bone Cage was a Canada Reads finalist. Her two memoirs on youth sport hit the Canadian best-seller list. Booklist declared Home Ice a “first rate memoir” and “must-read for parents with youngsters who play organized sports.” Chatelaine Magazine named her most recent novel, In Case I Go, one of 2017’s most riveting mysteries

Cat Abenstein (she/her) is a neuroqueer white settler creating in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 (Regina, SK.) A practicing spoken word artist, writer, and arts administrator, she is witness to the connection, community, and identity found through stories. Since 2012, Cat has taken her work to local, provincial, and national stages and has organized, hosted, and facilitated dozens of spoken word events for many organizations. When she’s not consuming books in all formats (yes, audiobooks are reading), she’s dreaming about the ways words weave us all together. She lives with her wife and two cats in a house older than all of their ages combined. Learn more at catabenstein.com

K.J. Aiello is an award-winning writer and author of The Monster and the Mirror. Their work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Chatelaine, The Walrus, and This Magazine. They are still waiting for their very own dragon. Sadly, this has not happened, so their cats will have to suffice.

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Peace Akintade, Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, is an Interdisciplinary-Poet, Chorus-Poem-Playwright, and Facilitator residing in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, and Equanimity in Conversation. Recipient of the RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award and the Platinum Jubilee Queen's Medal. The past 2020-2021 Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate and 2022-2023 READSaskatoon Poet Laureate. Co-organizing Write Out Loud, a Youth Poetry Collective. Other playwrighting credits include Madness with Rocks with Obsidian Theatre and CBCGem, Painted Elephant with Black Theatre Workshop AMP, I Am Who I Am with SUMTheatre's First Monday, and But First Let Me Breathe with Theatre on the Beat.

Vincent Anioke is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and software engineer. His short stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Rumpus, The Masters Review, and Passages North, among others. He won the 2021 Austin Clarke Fiction Prize and was a finalist for both the 2023 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award and the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Perfect Little Angels, his debut short story collection, was released in 2024 and shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize. He is currently working on a novel.

Emily was born in St. Thomas, Ontario. She studied English Literature and Religious Studies at King's University College, and Library and Information Science at Western University. She has a background in libraries, teaching, and working as an information architect. She currently resides in Ottawa / the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.

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Jarol Boan is a Canadian physician of settler background and is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, Regina Campus. Boan grew up in Regina and spent 20 years in academic institutions in the U.S. before returning to Saskatchewan and learning about Indigenous health. Her focus on community engagement and listening to ways of knowing allows her to integrate appropriate cultural responsiveness between the settler community and Indigenous partners. Her book, The Medicine Chest: A Physician’s Journey Towards Reconciliation won the 2025 First Book Award at the Sask Book Awards.

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A natural-born vocalist, soul singer & songwriter Clerel nurtured his taste for melody in his coastal hometown of Douala, Cameroon, where he grew up listening to music from his parents’ record collection, which ranged from church hymns and afrobeat to French chanson.

As a child, he developed a habit of singing his favorite songs to himself as a way to “listen” to them whenever he desired, an exercise that helped hone his signature smooth tone.

While he's spent most of 2020 working on a new collection of songs, Clerel has also appeared on reality TV show La Voix (The Voice Canada), and last summer he took part in the Montreal International Jazz Festival, where he gave a highly acclaimed performance of his original music in front of an audience of over 3000 spectators. Listeners around the world continue to fall in love with the young musician's soulful universe.

Andrea Currie is Red River Métis from Manitoba. In her debut book Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves, she weaves memoir, essay and poetry to illustrate the depth and breadth of the impact of the Sixties Scoop, the love between a brother and sister living with profound cultural loss, and the healing that is sometimes possible. In this timely work of narrative non-fiction, Currie asks as many questions as she answers.

Rosanna Deerchild (She/Her) is Cree, from O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation. She has written three collections of poetry: this is a small northern town, calling down the sky, and she falls again. Her first play, The Secret to Good Tea debuted at RMTC in the 2022/2023 season, The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario and Ottawa’s NAC Indigenous Theatre in the 2025 season. As the host of Unreserved (CBC Radio One) Rosanna shares Indigenous community, culture and conversation.

Khodi Dill is a Bahamian-Canadian writer, spoken word artist, and anti-racist educator from Saskatoon. Centering equity at the heart of his work, Khodi hopes that his writing will engage people of all ages in social justice and the arts. Dill is the author of the picture book Welcome to the Cypher, introducing young people to the transformative power of rap music. His riveting poetry can be found on YouTube. For more information, visit thegreygriot.com.

A two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Terry Fallis is the award-winning author of nine national bestsellers, six of them #1 bestsellers, including his latest, A New Season. His debut novel, The Best Laid Plans, won the 2008 Leacock Medal, the 2011 edition of CBC Canada Reads, and was adapted as a six-part television miniseries, as well as a stage musical. He won the Leacock Medal again in 2015 for No Relation.

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