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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Kyo Maclear is a Toronto-based arts writer, novelist

and children’s author. She is currently working on a

PhD at York University in the areas of literature, film

and the environmental humanities. Her newest book,

Birds, Art, Life, is a meditation on her engagement with

birds as observed in an urban context.

Photo credit: Nancy Friedland

Catherine Bush is the author of four novels, Accusation,

Claire’s Head, The Rules of Engagement and Minus Time.

Her work has been published internationally. She is the

Coordinator of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA.

Her current novel, Elemental, uses Shakespeare’s play, The

Tempest, to shape a contemporary fiction that dramatizes

climate changes and human responses to them.

Photo credit: ayelet tsabari

Sharon English has published two collections

of short stories, Uncomfortably Numb and Zero

Gravity, which was long-listed for the Giller

Prize. Her new novel, What Has Night To Do

With Sleep? attempts to find convincing ways

to evoke the earth, its non-human creatures

and the cosmos as conscious agents in life.

She's currently the director of the Writing and

Rhetoric Program at the University of Toronto, where she teaches creative writing.