STEPHEN LORNE BENNETT

 

Stephen Lorne Bennett, author of Last of the Ninth, was born in Saskatchewan. Bennett combines his expert knowledge of Roman history with a flair for writing intriguing fiction. Bennett, a Canadian diplomat, currently lives in Ottawa where he is working on his second novel. 

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ISABEL BOGDAN

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Isabel Bogdan's novel in English translation, Running, was published by Deux Voiliers Publishing in 2024. Isabel was born in Cologne in 1968 and studied English and Japanese in Heidelberg and Tokyo. She has produced numerous translations, including of Jane Gardam, Nick Hornby and Jonathan Safran Foer. Her first book, Sachen machen, was published by Rowohlt in 2011, and she has also written short stories for anthologies. In 2006, she received the Hamburg Prize for Literary Translation and in 2011 the Prize for Literature. Her novel Der Pfau was published in 2016 and sold over 500,000 copies. It was translated into English under the title The Peacock in 2021 by V&Q Books. Laufen (Running) is her latest novel. Both novels have been produced as feature films.​​

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ANDREW CADDELL

 

Andrew Caddell, one of three authors of The Goal, has been a reporter and broadcaster in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, St. John's and Geneva, Switzerland and has been published in several Canadian newspapers. He has also worked for the UN in Europe and Asia and for the Government of Canada. He lives in Ottawa and Kamouraska, Quebec. He plays old-timers' hockey twice a week, and is a sometime goaltender.

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PHILIP CADDELL

 

Philip “Pip” Caddell (1913-2004) was a wonder-ful storyteller. His short story "The Black Horse" in The Goal is a must read for Montreal hockey fans. While he never played hockey, he loved the game. Born in Canada and raised in Scotland, he returned to this country as a teenaged immigrant. He enlisted for the Second World War in 1939, served in combat with the Royal Canadian Artillery and was promoted to Captain in the field. After the war, he worked as a brewmaster and personnel manager, and worked in dozens of community organizations. Philip Caddell was a proud Canadian until the day he died. And for him, hockey was synonymous with his nationality.

 

NICOLE CHARDENET

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Nicole Chardenet is one of Canada's most talented humourists. Born in the States, she fled to Canada in 2005 for better beer (although she likes to tell Republicans it was for all the damn socialism). She plots literary world domination from her den o' debauchery in Toronto with her evil henchkitty Belladonna. When she's not writing or working in her glamorous workforce management consulting job, she watches "The Big Bang Theory" and stalks George Clooney.  Sumer Lovin' is Nicole Chardenet's second novel. For more about Nicole Chardenet, visit her fantasy author website.

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CON CÚ / IAN THOMAS SHAW

 

Ian Thomas Shaw is a Canadian novelist, who writes both under the unusual pen name Con Cu (owl in Vietnamese) and his own name. The pen name was derived from a nickname given to him by a Vietnamese friend, whose stories about Vietnam and coming as a child to Canada inspired his first novel, Soldier, Lily, Peace and Pearls. Shaw was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.  He worked as a diplomat and as an international development worker, living in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He currently lives in Aylmer, Quebec (just outside of Ottawa). His second novel, Quill of the Dove, is a blend of literary fiction and political thriller set against the Lebanese Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Quill of the Dove was published by Guernica Editions in Spring 2019 and optioned for a TV limited series by Original Pictures in June 2019. The novel was subsequently translated and published by Éditions David (French translation), Dokusou ediciones (Spanish) and Literaturwissenschaft.de (German). Shaw is the founder of Deux Voiliers Publishing, the Prose in the Park Literary Festival and the Ottawa Review of Books. Shaw is also a translator of literary fiction: Choosing Eleonore (from French, Guernica, 2021) and Treize pierres (from English into French, DVP, 2024). Shaw co-edited The Marginal Ride Anthology for DVP in 2019. See also his author's website.

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PAUL DUONG

 

Paul Phong Duong was born and raised in a little farming village south of Saigon. At an early age he left his homeland to cross the sea as one of the last of the Vietnamese Boat People. He has a university degree in computer science. He currently lives in Toronto with his wife and child. His novel Bidong is inspired by his personal experiences in the Pulau Bidong refugee camp in Malaysia. Visit Duong's website for more on his writing.

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LEWIS EVANS

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Lewis Evans has lived and worked in Germany, the US, Ecuador, Chile, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Canada. Before contributing to the canon of timeless world literature, he was variously employed as an English teacher, landscape gardener, actor, morgue attendant, grunt labourer, and tour guide. He currently lives in Ottawa. A Whale Watcher’s Guide to the Apocalypse is his first novel.

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GERRY FOSTATY

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Deux Voiliers Publishing welcomes crime writer and former actor Gerry Fostaty. Stage Business is Gerry's first novel. He was an actor working on stage and in film and television for more than twenty years. Gerry  is also the author of As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier (non-fiction) published by Goose Lane Editions. In October 2016, Stage Business won the inaugural Whistler Independent Book Award for Crime Fiction. For more about Gerry Fostaty, visit his website.

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GERI NEWELL GILLEN

 

Geri Newell Gillen was born in Ottawa. She grew up in Montréal, on a steady diet of Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. She was educated in Montréal and held numerous jobs which included Chimpanzee babysitter, program typist for the Festival international du film en 16 mm, and McGill Library shelf-stacker. She finally settled on a career as a Research Technologist for a large manufacturing firm. Following early retirement, she appeased her aspiration of writing by chronicling 200 years of Newell Family History. In researching and writing these genealogical stories, and uncovering a multitude of mysteries along the way, she was drawn to writing a fictional mystery. Combining her love of poker and her quarter-century marriage to an amusing pub-loving Glaswegian, Quite Perfectly Dead was born. For more about Geri Newell Gillen, visit her website.

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NORMAN HALL

 

Norman Hall was born in Yorkshire, England. As a pre-teen he moved with his family to St. Catharines, Ontario where he attended high school. As a young man he moved to Massachusetts where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees. He is an ordained minister and as such served a parish in Dedham, Massachusetts before leaving parish work to head up an adolescent residential program. After returning to Canada he worked as an Executive Director of a large social service agency in Hamilton, Ontario for thirteen years. He has also worked as a certified adult ESL instructor and as a Personnel Officer. While at Seneca College he co-authored two text books on English pronunciation and edited several text books on English grammar and conversation. He has two children living in Massachusetts and currently resides in Toronto with his partner Karen. 

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FERNAND HIBBERT

 

Fernand Hibbert is considered a pioneer of the Haitian novel. His works, full of satire and wit, sought to criticize the corrupt powers of the day while painting an accurate, often beautiful portrait of Haitian society at the start of the twentieth century. Born in Miragoâne in 1873, Hibbert studied in Paris before teaching history and French literature at Lycée Pétion. He had a successful diplomatic career as Minister of Foreign Relations and later Minister Plenipotentiary to Cuba, and was later Secretary of State for Public Education. He contributed to newspapers and literary reviews, wrote several novels, plays and short stories, helping to establish a uniquely Haitian literary culture. Click here for more about Fernand Hibbert.

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CAROL KATZ

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Carol Katz is an archivist by profession and a guitarist, artist, writer, singer, dancer and actress by creation. Several of her poems and short stories have been published in various journals and anthologies both in hard copy and online, in Canada and the United States. Katz lives in Montreal. Zaidie and Ferdele is her first children's book. For more on Carol Katz, click here for her website.

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​ELAINE KENNEDY

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A native of Toronto, Elaine Kennedy studied English literature, French language and civilization, as well as translation in North America and Europe. She has taught translation at Concordia University, and worked as a translator and editor in the academic and cultural sectors. Her translations of a literary nature include This Country of Mine, originally published as Ce pays qui est le mien by award-winning Canadian author Didier Leclair. Elaine is the co-recipient of the 3Macs carte blanche Prize and a finalist for the Toronto Book Award and the International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction. After living in Montreal for many years, she moved to Victoria, where she now focuses on literary translation. You can visit her at www.elainekennedy.ca.

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SANG KIM

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Sang Kim is a writer, chef and food literacy advocate. He won the Gloria Vanderbilt/Exile Editions C.V.C. Short Fiction Award in 2013 for his short story “When John Lennon Died.” Sang Kim contributed two stories to The Marginal Ride Anthology, published in 2019. He was also the recipient of the York West Centennial Citation Award in 2015 for his food safety activism. He runs a regular hands-on sushi-making workshop, Sushi Making for the Soul. Born in South Korea, Sang Kim lives in Toronto.

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JASON LAWSON

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Jason Lawson lives and writes in New Brunswick Canada. He is an outdoorsman, who has a wonderful family, horses and a couple of dogs who love to accompany him on his treks into the wild. Jason fell into writing quite by accident when he was informed that the curriculum for his high school English class had changed to creative writing. After winning an award for the best written composition, he never looked back. Jason has freelanced for numerous publications, written commentaries for CBC radio Canada and has three previous novels to his credit. The Vision, Rum Runners and Frozen Blood. In 2013, Grana Productions bought the movie rights to The Vision and it is currently in development with Telefilm Canada. A short story by Jason called "The Date" won an award at the Writer's Federation of New Brunswick's literary competition. For more about Jason Lawson, click here for his website.

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE: jason Lawson signed in May 2017 a multi-book deal with Wolfpack Publishing. Frack Off will now be carried by Wolfpack as part of that deal. Congratulations to Jason for landing this new contract.

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DIDIER LECLAIR

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Born in Montreal to Rwandan parents, Didier Leclair grew up in different African countries—Gabon, Benin, Togo and the Republic of the Congo—then returned to Canada in the late 1980s. He has been living and writing in Toronto ever since. The author of nine novels, Didier is a three-time finalist for the Prix Trillium and the ]recipient of both the Trillium and the Christine Dumitriu Van Saanen Book prizes. His second novel, Ce pays qui est le mien, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction. The English edition of the novel, translated by Elaine Kennedy as This Country of Mine and published by Deux Voiliers, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. 

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JERRY LEVY

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Jerry Levy is the author two books of short stories: Urban Legend (Thistledown Press 2013) and The Quantum Theory of Love and Madness (scheduled for publication in 2020 by Guernica Editions). Jerry Levy contributed two stories to The Marginal Ride Anthology, published by DVP in 2019. He has also published over twenty stories in various literary magazines. Originally from Montreal, Jerry Levy lives in Toronto.

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