E.R. Brown
E.R. Brown worked as a stagehand, recording engineer, computer programmer, technical writer and chandelier cleaner before settling down and writing for a living. After over fifteen years as a copywriter for advertising, marketing and corporate communications, he turned to fiction. His work has appeared in literary magazines and on CBC Radio. His first novel, Almost Criminal, will be available in the spring of 2013. Born in Montreal, he now lives in Vancouver.

http://www.erbrown.com/

Anne Burke
Anne Burke is a Full Member of the League of Canadian Poets and was President of the Writers Guild of Alberta. She received the Alberta Centennial Medal. in addition to the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Award and Diamond Jubilee Award for her contributions to Canada. She edits The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature which she founded and is Series Editor of The Living Archives Series. She co-founded Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (where she represented arts,literary, and cultural magazines) and is a member of the Cultural Magazines Committee for Magazines Canada.

Melodie Campbell
Melodie Campbell achieved a personal best this year when Library Digest compared her to Janet Evanovich.

Melodie got her start writing comedy (stand-up and columns.) In 1999, she opened the Canadian Humour Conference. She has over 200 publications including 100 comedy credits, 40 short stories and 4 novels. Her fifth novel, a mob caper entitled The Goddaughter's Revenge (Orca Books), will be released Oct. 1. She has won 6 awards for fiction, and was a finalist for both the 2012 Derringer and Arthur Ellis Awards.

Melodie is the Executive Director of Crime Writers of Canada. Her humour column Bad Girl appears in The Sage.

Suzanne Church
Aurora Award winning author Suzanne Church lives in Ontario. She writes Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror because she enjoys them all and hates to play favorites. Her short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld and Cicada, and in several anthologies including Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper.

Leah Crichton
Leah Crichton is a wife, mother of three and YA/new adult author currently residing in Calgary, AB. Her day job is in the very technical world of GIS so when the sun sets, she welcomes the voices in her head and often writes down what they have to say. Sometimes, when she's lucky, they turn into decent stories. She has penned several novels and worked with Sony Music Canada in writing the official fan fiction for the British boy band, One Direction. Her compiled works have attracted over 3.5 million reads on Wattpad and counting. http://www.leah-crichton.com/

Susan Forest
Two-time Prix Aurora Award nominee, and winner of The Galaxy Project, juried by Robert Silverberg, David Drake and Barry Malzberg, Susan Forest is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror, and fiction editor for Edge Press. You can find her works in Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tesseracts, AE Science Fiction Review, OnSpec and the Urban Green Man or in her collection, Immunity to Strange Tales (Five Rivers Press). You can check out her website at www.speculative-fiction.ca.

Aaron Kite
Aaron Kite is a writer/artist who likes putting slashes between occupations, and who very rarely refers to himself in the third person. He was one of the founding members of the amateur writing group Starting Write Now, as well as countless side-projects which he'd mention by name if the government would finally get around to granting him immunity.

He has three finished novels presently, the first of which is scheduled for release in the latter half of 2013. Recently, his novel A Touch of Poison won the 2012 Watty Award for Most Popular Fantasy, and has received over 2.7 million reads in the past 14 months. Aaron currently resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Website: www.kiteanic.com

Nina Munteanu
Nina Munteanu is an ecologist and internationally published novelist and short story author of science fiction and fantasy. She is currently editor of SF Europa, a zine dedicated to informing the European SF community.

Nina's guide for writers called "The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!" by Starfire World Syndicate was adopted by several colleges and universities throughout North America and Europe. It was recently published by Editura Paralela 45 in Romania. The next book in her writing guide series "The Journal Writer: Finding Your Voice" will be released in early 2013.

For more information about booking her workshops, consultations, or speaking appearances visit www.NinaMunteanu.com.

Terry Nicholaichuk
Terry Nicholaichuk received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Saskatchewan in 1987. He has worked as a psychologist, researcher, program director and regional and national administrator in Federal Corrections. He also has specialised training and experience in the diagnosis of learning disorders. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He was, until recently, the Director of Research at the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon. His publications and research interests are in the areas of sex offender assessment, sex offender treatment outcome and dynamic predictors of risk.

Rosemary Nixon
Rosemary Nixon is a pre-eminent short story writer, novelist, and free-lance editor. Her collection, Mostly Country, a Nunatak Fiction imprint: especially selected works of outstanding fiction by new western writers, was shortlisted for the Howard O'Hagan Award. The Cock's Egg won the Howard O'Hagan. Her novel, Kalila was longlisted for the ReLit Award and shortlisted for the George Bugnet Award. Her latest, Are You Ready To Be Lucky? will be released in fall of 2013.

Rosemary won Grain Magazine's Postcard Competition, has been awarded a Fellowship to write at Scotland's Hawthornden Castle, and invited as Canadian Guest Writer to Portugal's DISQUIET International Literary Festival. She has taught creative writing for over twenty years, including Writing With Style at the Banff Center, Sage Hill Writing Experience in Saskatchewan, and Writing Away in Greece. She has judged numerous literary competitions, including the Grant MacEwan Award, the Brenda Strathern Award, the CBC Literary Competition, and the Writers Union of Canada Short Fiction Competition. Rosemary has served as Writer-in-Residence for the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme, for the University of Windsor, Ontario, for the Canadian Authors Association, and most recently as Writer-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Gary Renshaw
Gary Renshaw is an actor, voice artist, carpenter, black smith, author, teacher, Linux guru, crisis counsellor and martial artist. He appeared in The Great Sperm Race as a stunt sperm and currently works at the medical school playing with the brains of students. He's completed several screenplays, a plethora of short stories (including Family Way which took 2nd place in the 2011 short story contest and Vacation appearing in the Spring 2013 On Spec) and is working on a half dozen novels. Gary is a long-time member of the Imaginative Fiction Writers' Association and has a — whimsical — sense of humour. He shares something wonderful with the actresses Daniela Ruah and Jane Seymour.

Nola Sarina
Nola Sarina is the author of The Vesper Series and co-author of the blog New Stories, Old Book featuring articles, interviews and posts on all things Biblical FanFiction.

Nola lives in Southern Alberta, Canada with her husband and three children. Born in Minnesota and raised to appreciate reading and writing of all types from an early age, she found her favorite titles within the genres of Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror.

Inspired by the lessons of her Catholic upbringing, Nola drew upon her fascination with sin and penance to fathom new creatures of nightmares to devour the human race: Vespers, demons cursed by the serpent guardian of the apple tree in the story of Original Sin. The characters of Boundless Obsidian will make readers question what sins are worth dying for and which beliefs must be challenged to carve a new path in life.

Hayden Trenholm
Hayden Trenholm (www.haydentrenholm.com) is a Parliamentary policy analyst and an award-winning playwright and author. He has twice won the Aurora Award for short fiction and been nominated for Best Novel three times. His novel, Stealing Home was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award. He lives with his wife, Elizabeth, in Ottawa.

2011 Fantasy Guest Jack Whyte Returns!
See here for his biography.