Program

The 2012 Program Schedule is now off to the publisher. A program booklet and Quick Guide will be available at the registration desk, but the program information is available at the above links to help you to plan your weekend.

Please take note of limited capacity events that require sign-up:

  • Kaffee Klatsches (Suite 536)
  • Pitch Sessions, Blue Pencil Cafe, Workshops (Collingwood)

Sign-up sheets will be available throughout the weekend on the Info Table in the Merchants Corner.

Confirmed Presenters / Panelists

Zev Vitaly Abosh

Zev Vitaly Abosh
Zev Vitaly Abosh - PhotoArt4U - Award-Winning Photographer and Artist. Specializing in Weddings, Fashion and Boudoir. Well known for his artistic and creative perspective and vision. His work was published in local media. These days he's working with a few fashion magazines.

Angela Ackerman

Angela Ackerman
Angela Ackerman writes on the darker side of Middle Grade and Young Adult, and is represented by Jill Corcoran of The Herman Agency. A huge advocate of writers helping writers, she blogs at the award-winning resource blog, The Bookshelf Muse and is the co-author of The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide To Character Expression.

Rona Altrows

Rona Altrows
Rona Altrows is the author of two books of short fiction, A Run On Hose (Thistledown Press, 2006) and Key In Lock (Recliner Books, 2010). A Run On Hose won the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Howard O'Hagan Award for short fiction. In 2001 Altrows became the inaugural winner of the Brenda Strathern Prize for her fiction. Her work has appeared in Prairie Fire, Ryga, Freefall, and other magazines of writing, and online in Montreal Serai and elsewhere. She is also a frequent contributor to WestWord, the magazine of the Writers' Guild of Alberta. Altrows served as Writer-in-Residence for the Calgary Public Library in 2007 and for the Alexandra Writers' Centre Society in Calgary in 2009. She is currently writing a new collection of flash fiction. With Naomi K. Lewis, she is co-editor of Shy, an anthology on shyness.

Colleen Anderson

Colleen Anderson
Colleen's fiction and poetry have appeared in over 100 publications with recent work in Eternal Haunted Summer, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Candle in the Attic Window and the Mirror Shards anthology. She is a 2011 & 2012 Aurora Award nominee in poetry and edits poetry and fiction for CZP. New work will be coming out in Bull Spec, Bibliotheca Fantastica, Third Flatiron Publishing and Chilling Tales 2. She has one book of poetry, Ancient Tales, Grand Deaths & Past Lives through Kelp Queen Press and will soon have a reprint collection of dark fiction available. www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com

Vivi Anna

Vivi Anna
Tawny Stokes aka Vivi Anna is a Canadian multi-published author in paranormal romance, urban fantasy, scifi, and young adult. Writing since 2002, she's published close to 19 books and novellas for Harlequin, Kensington, Avon and epublishers Samhain and Carina Press.
Tawny is the current president of CARWA and co-founder of the popular #TVwriterchat on twitter. She's written several spec screenplays, adapted two of her books into pilots plus created both TV bibles, and one into a feature. She's won the RWA Script Scene screenplay contest with her adapted script Vanquished, has finaled in both the Austin Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival with her adapted TV pilot, Occult Crime Unit. She is currently in development with a production company on a TV pilot.

Krista D. Ball

Krista D. Ball
According to her mother, Krista D. Ball tells lies for a living. She is the author of several short stories, novellas, and novels. Krista incorporates as much historical information into her fiction as possible, mostly to justify her B.A. in British History.
Krista enjoys all aspects of the writing and publishing world, and has been a magazine intern, co-edited four RPG books, self-published several short stories and a novella series, and has been a slush reader. She has two novels out in the world, with another one coming in November. She has also written a non-fiction blogging guide and has a historical - comedy-writer's guide hybrid coming in November called "What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank: A Fantasy Lover's Guide to Food."
Whenever she gets annoyed, she blows something up in her fiction. Regular readers of her work have commented that she is annoyed a lot.

Chase Baird

Chase Baird
Always colourful and quick to laugh, Chase Baird is a returning full time student at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Officially a Computer student, she spends way too much time practicing the dark arts like English and eating sour patch kids. An Indie-loving, techno geek, she has published fiction in Freefall and just recently won Broken Pencil's Deathmatch - "the deadliest fiction contest on the planet" - look for that story in the Spring issue of Broken Pencil.

Jayne Barnard

Jayne Barnard
Jayne Barnard's award-winning short fiction covers a range of topics and genres, but her best love is historical mystery. "Tommy Palmer's Ghost," set in 1922 Victoria, was short-listed for the Great Canadian Story prize in 2006 and "Each Canadian Son" won the 2011 Bony Pete award at Bloody Words. Her unpublished manuscript "When the Bow Breaks" is a finalist for the 2011 Unhanged Arthur Award from Crime Writers of Canada. Her work won a Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award in 1990 and has been published in Storyteller, Freefall, Western Living, Transitions, and others, as well as "Dead in the Water: an Anthology of Canadian Mystery Fiction."

Michelle Beattie

Michelle Beattie
Michelle Beattie has been writing for 15 years. Her first pirate novel sold to the Berkley Publishing Group in 2007 and hit the shelves in December 2008 under the title, What a Pirate Desires. Wanting to build a readership, Berkley encouraged Michelle to turn the book into a series and 6 months later she signed a two-book contract. Her second novel, Romancing the Pirate was released in 2009 and the third book, A Pirate's Possession was released in December 2010. Her books have received wonderful praise from publisher's weekly, Romantic Times and several on-line review sites as well as have been published in several languages. Michelle currently lives with her husband and two daughters near Camrose. Alberta.

Louise Behiel

Louise Behiel
Louise Behiel is a writer, therapist, mother, grandmother and dog lover. She has a business degree and a Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Counseling Psychology. She has worked as an accountant, therapist, facilitator, adult educator, sales support manager and is currently employed in health care.
She listens to Country Music, watches CSI in all three cities and reruns anywhere of Criminal Minds. She reads romance, self-help and spiritual books, including anything by Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra among others. And she's decided to work her way through her bucket list, to ensure her life is filled with fun.

Eileen Bell

Eileen Bell
Eileen Bell lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She won the 2010 Aurora for Pawns Dreaming of Roses in Women of the Apocalypse, and is delighted to have a short story in Evolve2. She's working on a number of other projects in her round house, with her husband and her daughter's cranky cat.

Nancy Marie Bell

Nancy Marie Bell
Nancy Marie Bell lives near Balzac, Alberta with her husband and various critters. She is a member of The Writers Union of Canada and the Writers Guild of Alberta. She enjoys writing poetry and fiction and non-fiction. Nancy is an editor with MuseItUp Publishing Inc.
Please visit her webpage: http://www.nancymbell.ca
You can find her on Facebook at http://facebook.com/NancyMBell
Follow on twitter: @emilypikkasso

Aviva Bell'Harold

Aviva Bell'Harold
Having struggled with dyslexia, among other learning disabilities, Aviva's foray into reading (and subsequent writing) was rather late. However, her learning disabilities never stopped her from daydreaming. Aviva was an avid daydreamer from age three, but she was sure she couldn't be an author; whoever heard of a dyslexic author? Then at age 35 Aviva decided to stop allowing her dyslexia get in the way. Now published, three books later, Aviva loves sharing with the world her story, her struggles, her books, and what she has learned along the way.

Pat Benedict

Pat Benedict
Patricia writes Haiku, Tanka, and Renga. She and fellow poet Joanne Morcom have conducted Haiku workshops together several times, in various venues in the city. Her work has been published in Haiku Canada, Gusts, Tinywords, Herons Nest, RAW NerVZ, DailyHaiku, World Haiku and others. In January of this year she received an award for one of her Haiku from the Asahi Haiku Network of Japan.
She is member of Haiku Canada, and the Magpie Haiku Poets of Calgary, and her poems appear in their anthology, A Piece of Eggshell.
She is an actor/director and Professor Emeritus of Drama from the University of Calgary. She lives in Calgary.

Janice Blaine

Janice Blaine
Janice Blaine is a professional commercial artist working out of Calgary. Throughout her career, she has worked on a wide variety of projects, ranging from pre-production animation to design & illustration of children's books. Her illustrations have appeared on the covers of numerous magazines and books and her cover illustration for Neo-opsis issue #20 was recently nominated for an Aurora Award. She currently works as the Production Manager at EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, as well as the Commercial Artist for The Financial Guides. Her personal work is fuelled by a passion for storytelling and a love of nature. Her paintings explore the universal language of myth and folklore. Her portfolio may be viewed at www.paintersblock.com

Roxy Boroughs

Roxy Boroughs
Before turning her attentions to writing, Roxy tread the boards as a performer, appearing in theatres across North America, TV commercials, and movies. In addition to writing interactive murder-mysteries for Pegasus Performances, her award-winning novel A STRANGER'S TOUCH, as well as its sequel, A STRANGER'S KISS, is now available through Amazon.com. Watch for her upcoming release, the edgy urban fantasy, WOLFEN TIME. "Roxy Boroughs has it all - humor, suspense, and the kind of raw emotion that makes romantic suspense worth reading. This genre has a bright new star." Lecia Cornwall author of Secrets of A Proper Countess, an RT Reviewers Choice nominee.

Jade Buchanan

Jade Buchanan
Jade Buchanan is a multi-published author who believes love and romance are universal concepts, no matter a person's gender identity or sexual orientation. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, and is the current Vice President of the Calgary Association of RWA.

Susan Calder

Susan Calder
Susan Calder's short stories, poems and articles have appeared in magazines such as Alberta Views, Other Voices and The Prairie Journal. Her first novel, a murder mystery Deadly Fall, was published by TouchWood Editions in March 2011. Susan teaches workshops and courses at the Alexandra Writers' Centre Society and is currently working on a second novel. You can visit her at www.susancalder.com.

Kathy Calvert

Kathy Calvert
Kathy Calvert grew up hunting, fishing and camping with her father and twin brother from a very early age. She began her climbing career at age sixteen, and in 1975 became Canada's first female park warden. Kathy's career as a national park warden continued for twenty five years, first in Yoho National Park, and later in Jasper National Park. In 1977, Kathy was on the first all-female expedition to attempt Canada's highest mountain, Mount Logan, via its challenging South peak, and attempted the first all-female ski traverse from Jasper to Banff in 1984. She also completed the first all-women's Bugaboo-to-Rogers Pass ski traverse in 1989. Kathy's practical knowledge of the outdoors is augmented by a BSc is in Biology and an MA in Environmental Science.

Leslie Carmichael

Leslie Carmichael
Leslie Carmichael is the author of two books for children, Lyranel's Song (2005) and The Amulet of Amon-Ra (2009). Her other publication credits include short stories, articles, essays and poetry; in such publications as Storyteller: Canada's Short Story Magazine, American Miniaturist, and The Journal of Dracula Studies. She writes comic interactive murder mysteries for Pegasus Performances.

Paul Carreau

Paul Carreau
25 years in the Canadian Military as an Administrator. Former owner of an IT development company, RFID. Involved with KAG KANADA for seventeen years. Founded the IKV SonchIy in 1996 which became the SonchIy Squadron in 1997, the only ship in KAG to accomplish this. Senior Command Officer, KAG Kanada for ten years (full story can be found at qeliv.blogspot.com). Has worked directly on conventions in Halifax, MarFest, and in Calgary (Conversion). Current retirement project, working with the oldest and most established Craft Beer Distributorship in Alberta.

Brenda Collins

Brenda Collins
Brenda M. Collins has wanted to write romance since she was twelve years old. LIFE got in the way although, as an adult, she joined a number of writing groups to learn about 'the craft' and completed two mystery manuscripts. To help her fellow writers develop strong business skills, Brenda published articles and delivered workshops to hundreds of writers, on career planning, professional networking and presentation skills--one is appearing in the 2013 Writer's Market (Brewer, R.L., ed. F&W Media Inc.). In June 2011, the Bandit Creek Books collaborative series opportunity arose and, with the energy and enthusiasm of 33 other authors behind her, Brenda buckled down to write. The story that emerged started with a murder, but it came to life with witches, warlocks, a canine familiar and a magical dimension called The Otherland. Her debut novel, Witch in the Wind, is available on Amazon and her next book, Chance Romance, a collection of short romantic stories with award-winning author, Roxy Boroughs ,will be released next month.

Betty Cross

Betty Cross
Betty Cross has published a sci-fi novel called Discarded Faces through Double Dragon Ebooks. A fantasy novel, Mistress of the Topaz, has been accepted by the same publisher, and is now available.

Sean Cummings

Sean Cummings is a comic book geek, superhero junkie, zombie fan and a total nerd. (He's also a goldmine of completely useless information about films made prior to 1960. Don't get him started on "Arsenic and Old Lace" because he won't shut up about it. ) Sean's published works include "Shade Fright" (Snowbooks 2010), "Funeral Pallor" (Snowbooks 2010), and "Unseen World" (Snowbooks 2011). His debut YA urban fantasy thriller "Poltergeeks" will be published by Strange Chemistry Books (a new YA imprint from Angry Robot Books) in October 2012 with the second book in the series hitting bookstores in the spring of 2013.
Website - http://sean-cummings.ca
Twitter - http://twitter.com/saskatoonauthor
Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/saskatoonauthor

Kris Demeanor

Kris Demeanor
Calgary born songwriter Kris Demeanor delights in exposing the underbelly of western Canadian culture- gambling, drug use, murder, religion, the suburbs. His numerous CDs of original work explore the darkness and absurdity of these corners of Alberta life. With the Crack Band, he draws on dense spoken word, folk, and shamelessly hooky pop for audiences who like to laugh, dance, think and weep all at the same time.
While Kris's music has taken him around the world performing, Kris has also become a fixture of Calgary's spoken word, literary and theatre worlds, creating music and lyric for numerous award winning projects.
Career highlights include taking the award winning short film based on his song I Have Seen the Future to the Sundance and Toronto film festivals, collaborationg with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra on the 2011 event Acres of Dreams, and sharing a beer with David Byrne.
He has recently been named the first Poet Laureate of the City of Calgary

Craig DiLouie

Craig DiLouie
Craig DiLouie is the author of the bestselling zombie novels TOOTH AND NAIL, THE INFECTION and THE KILLING FLOOR. Craig blogs about his fiction and all things apocalyptic horror at www.craigdilouie.com.

Josiah Ditoro

Josiah Ditoro
Josiah Ditoro is a writer who has dabbled in many genres and formats since she discovered a deep love of words, and how they are strung together, as a child. This will be her fourth year as a Municipal Liaison (regional organiser) in Calgary for National Novel Writing Month, which proves she is sucker for punishment and a fan of organized chaos.

Jason Donev

Jason Donev
Dr. Jason Donev is a professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary. He studies how people learn science and teaches about energy issues, especially nuclear power. A long time geek he has enjoyed seeing the interplay between science fact and science fiction.

Dymphny Dronyk

Dymphny Dronyk
Dymphny Dronyk is a writer, editor, mediator and mother. She is passionate about the magic of story and has woven words for money (journalism, corporate writing) and for love (poetry, fiction, drama, mystery novels and songs) for over 25 years. She is the co-publisher/co-editor of House of Blue Skies.

Karen Dudley

Karen Dudley
Karen Dudley loves both writing and preparing fine foods, so writing about a chef comes naturally to her. She began her career by writing wildlife biology books for kids but was lured into writing mysteries for the satisfaction of bumping off people in fiction who irritated her in real life. She has now either seen the light or gone to the 'dark side' (depending on your point of view) by switching genres to speculative fiction. Food for the Gods is her first historical fantasy novel. A sequel, Kraken Bake, is currently in the works.

Dave Duncan

Dave Duncan
Dave Duncan is a prolific writer of Fantasy and SF, and was for many years a resident of Calgary. (He now lives in Victoria.) His latest book, Wildcatter will be launched at When Words Collide, and will be his third book this year, following Against the Light and The Death of Nnanji. He also has a short story in Neo-Opsis # 22.

Amy Jo Fleming

Amy Jo Fleming
Amy Jo Fleming writes romantic suspense. She loves a story that leaves you wondering about the characters after you read the final page.
Amy Jo is passionate about writing and social justice. She is a Calgary freelance writer and editor. She has written and edited Education Law and Privacy Law Reports and publications for Calgary businesses and not-for-profits.
A member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Alberta Romance Writers, and Romance Writers of America over the years, Amy Jo has been an enthusiastic member of the Bandit Creek e-publishing collective.
Her recent release, Death at Bandit Creek, is available on Amazon Kindle, Smashwords and Kobo. It is a romantic suspense set at the turn of the 20th century. Her current project is The Refugee Claimant. Contact Amy Jo at amyjofleming11@gmail.com or see her website at http://www.amyjofleming.com

Susan Forest

Susan Forest
Two-time Prix Aurora Award nominee, and winner of The Galaxy Project, juried by Robert Silverberg, David Drake and Barry Malzberg (Rosetta Books, November, 2011) for her novella, Lucy, Susan Forest is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror, and fiction editor for Edge Press. Her works have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tesseracts Ten, Tesseracts Eleven, Tesseracts Fourteen, AE Science Fiction Review, OnSpec and Legacy Magazine. In August of 2012, her first collection, Immunity to Strange Tales, will be launched by Five Rivers Chapmanry Press. Susan's YA novel, The Dragon Prince, was awarded the Children's Circle Book Choice Award. You can check out her website at www.speculative-fiction.ca.

Ron Friedman

Ron S. Friedman
Ron's short stories appeared in Daily Science Fiction and received an Honourable Mention in L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. Since 2002, Ron is living with his loving wife and two children in Calgary, Alberta. Ron is currently polishing his first completed SF novel.

Barb Galler-Smith

Barb Galler-Smith
Barb Galler-Smith resides in Edmonton, Alberta where she's a Fiction Editor with On Spec Magazine. She's co-authored an historical fantasy trilogy with US author Josh Langston: DRUIDS (released in 2009 and nominated for the 2010 Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in English), and CAPTIVES released in 2011. The third book, WARRIORS, is scheduled for release in August 2013 (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing).

Barb Geiger

Barb Geiger
Barb Geiger writes science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. She has published numerous short stories and was a finalist for Writers of the Future. Her short story Little Black Boxes was published in Apex Magazine. It went on to win an honourable mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Her erotica writing as Angela Fiddler includes a multi-book non-sparkly vampire series from Loose Id, her first stand-alone novel, Pulse through MLR Press, and Cy Gets a Sex Demon, published through Amber Quill. Cy will always be her favourite title. She lives in Lethbridge, Alberta with her wife, Elisabeth.

Chadwick Ginther

Chadwick Ginther
Chadwick Ginther is the author of Thunder Road, a Norse mythology inspired Urban Fantasy, releasing Fall 2012. His short fiction has found a home in On Spec, Tesseracts 16 and the forthcoming Fungi anthology from Innsmouth Free Press. When he's not writing his own books, he's selling everyone else's as a bookseller and genre buyer for Canada's largest independent bookstore.

Jane Garthson

Jane Garthson
Jane found fantasy and SF literature in 1965, fandom in 1992 and fannish filk family starting with TorCon3. She is Co-Chair of FilKONtario 23, Past President of the Filk Society of Upper Canada and Treasurer of the Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Association. Jane sings a little, drums less, reads avidly and collects Zathras quotes. She is married to Phil Mills, a filk singer-songwriter and software engineer. They and their cats host visiting filkers and filk circles. Jane rides trails on her Quarter Horse Nijomi, and is a leadership consultant to nonprofits and governments.

Neil Godbout

Neil Godbout
Neil Godbout has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and a master's degree in natural resources and environmental studies from the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He won provincial and national recognition for his work during his 20 years as a reporter, editor and photographer before bolting into public relations and communications. Dissolve is his second novel, available this summer from Bundoran Press.

Kimberly Donn Gould

Kimberley Gould
Although Kimberly Donn normally hates being called Kimmy, her mother called her Kimmydonn and that was alright. Now she has Lilah, or Delilah, or Delilah Dell if she's misbehaving and Dad, Allen, catches her. Continuing in her day job as an Environmental Consultant, Kim is also a writer in the time she finds on the sides. She is the author of apocalyptic renaissance, Cargon: Honour and Privilege, as well as the Family Saga, Thickness of Blood, expected to release in September.

Dave Gross

Dave Gross
Dave Gross is the author of Prince of Wolves, Master of Devils, and half a dozen other fantasy novels. He's been editor of magazines ranging from Dragon to Star Wars Insider and Amazing Stories. He posts writing updates at frabjousdave.blogspot.com and at "Dave Gross, Author" on Facebook.

Brian Hades

2011 Publisher Guest Brian Hades Returns!
See here for his biography.

Vivan Hansen

Vivian Hansen
Vivan Hansen is a Calgary poet and activist. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many anthologies, most recently in The Madwoman in the Academy and Writing the Terrain. Her first full-length book of poetry Leylines of My Flesh was published by Touchwood Press in 2002. In 2004, she published Angel Alley, a chapbook about the victims of Jack the Ripper. She has just completed her MFA in Creative Writing with the University of British Columbia. A Bitter Mood of Clouds will be published by Frontenac House in 2013.

Richard Harrison

Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison is the author of six books of poetry, among them Big Breath of a Wish, nominated for the Governor-General's Award for poetry, and Hero of the Play, the first book of poetry launched at Toronto's Hockey Hall of Fame. His writing has been published and broadcast around the continent and been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic. He teaches Creative Writing at Mount Royal University.

Amber Hayward

Amber Hayward
Amber Hayward's Children of the Panther SF trilogy of novels was complete with the publication of 'Stolen Children,' released by Edge Press in September 2011. She has had many short stories and poems included in various magazines and anthologies. Amber's non-writing wage-earning alternate life sees her as owner-manager of the Black Cat Guest Ranch near Jasper, Alberta. From May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2012, Amber wrote a short short story every day and posted it on her website, www.amberhayward.ca.

Rhiannon Held

Rhiannon Held
Rhiannon Held lives in Seattle, where she works as a professional archaeologist. Unfortunately, given that it's real rather than fictional archaeology, fedoras, bullwhips, aliens, and dinosaurs are in short supply. Most of her work is done on the computer, using databases to organize data, and graphics programs to illustrate it. Her debut novel, Silver, is the first in an urban fantasy series from Tor. The second, Tarnished, will be out in 2013.

Dr David Hobill

Dr David Hobill
David Hobill received his Ph.D. from the University of Victoria in general relativity theory. He then held PostDoctoral positions at the Institute Henri Poincare (Paris) and Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ) before becoming the head of the numerical relativty group at the Universtiy of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary since 1991 and has held visiting positions at the Observatoire de Paris and the Albert Einstein Institut (Potsdam Germany). His current research interests are in general relativity, cosmology, and other applications of non-Euclidean geometries.

Steena Holmes

Steena Holmes
Steena Holmes is the author of best-selling Finding Emma and has self-published nine books/novellas in the past year and is epublished as well with three novellas. Her latest release - Finding Emma, won the 2012 Indie Excellence Award for Best Fiction and has finaled in several other contests. Steena is a Canadian multi-published author in erotic romance, inspirational and contemporary romance, urban fantasy, thriller as well as contemporary women's fiction. She is currently on the board of CARWA and can't wait to see what her passions for chocolate and writing will take her in the next year. Visit her at www.steenaholmes.com to find out more!

Faye Holt

Faye Holt
Faye Reineberg Holt has authored 11 books, one poetry chapbook, and (co-authored) a travel book. Also, she has published articles, interviews, short stories and additional poems. One-time editor and co-editor for Freefall, she has edited three additional books for a trade publisher and individual client. She was writer-in-residence for Calgary Public Library and AWCS and has offered a wide range of workshops, programs and readings for libraries, history organizations and educational groups around the province. She is a frequent visiting writer in schools and has taught in the continuing education for Mount Royal University and U of A. She belongs to a number of writing groups and, last year, she launched a blog called "Can't Quit Learning." This year she has a new book: Settling In: Early Homes of Western Canada. For more information, see her website: www.wordsandhistory.ca

Ron Hore

Ron Hore
Ron Hore, can be found sailing on Lake Winnipeg when not writing novels or critiquing for an on-line magazine. A member of several writing groups, with published short stories, and now a fantasy novel, "The Dark Lady" in print and ebook format, and two novellas: "The Housetrap" a fantasy detective tale due December 2012, and "Knight's Bridge" a medieval fantasy due March 2013, plus another full-length novel, working title "Pawn Queen and Checkmate" scheduled for April 2013. These are available through Champagne/BURST Books. Supervised by his wife and a large, demanding cat, most of his writings fall under fantasy, with wanderings into science fiction and horror. www.ronaldhore.com

Paula Johanson

Paula Johanson
Paula Johanson is a prolific author of nonfiction books on science, health, and literature for high school library publishers. Her most recent release is a biography of Lady Gaga. Two of her stories were shortlisted for the Aurora. Currently, she is working on a Master's degree in Canadian Literature.

Tammy Johnston

Tammy Johnston
Tammy Johnston is the CEO and President of The Financial Guides and author of The Financial Foundations Books series. Read more at http://www.thefinancialguides.com/tammyjohnston.htm

Sarah Kades

Sarah Kades
Sarah Kades loves playing outside and ten years as an archaeologist has given her even more inspiration. She writes adventure and paranormal romances to celebrate love, the great outdoors, and to inspire others to go have their own adventures. If they are with a splash of the paranormal, even better. She lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her husband, daughter, dog, cat, and a house full of plants. Visit her at sarahkades.com and sarahkades.blogspot.ca.

Sandra Kasturi

Sandra Kasturi
Sandra Kasturi is a writer, publisher and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor. She is the co-publisher of the World Fantasy Award-nominated press, ChiZine Publications. Sandra's work has won several prizes for writing and has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Taddle Creek, ON SPEC, Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, Shadows & Tall Trees, several of the Tesseracts anthologies, Evolve, Evolve 2, Chilling Tales, and The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts. She managed to snag an introduction from Neil Gaiman for her poetry collection, The Animal Bridegroom (Tightrope Books). Her second collection, Come Late to the Love of Birds, is out in November. She is fond of red lipstick, single-malt scotch and Michael Fassbender.

Jennifer Kennedy

Jennifer Kennedy
Jennifer Kennedy (byline J.Y.T. Kennedy) writes primarily speculative fiction, although she has been dabbling in poetry and scriptwriting lately. She has published one fantasy novel, Dominion. Her latest credit is a story in the upcoming Danse Macabre anthology from EDGE. She has a strong interest in myth, legend and folklore, whether sharing the old stories as an oral storyteller or using them as inspiration for original fiction.

Dr David Knudsen

Dr David Knudsen
David Knudsen is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary, where he studies the aurora using rockets, satellites, radars and cameras. He studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and has worked at the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics in Garching, Germany; the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics in Ottawa; the Centre d'etude des environnnements terrestres et planetaires near Paris; and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is the principal scientific investigator for instruments on the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite mission scheduled for launch into orbit this coming November, and on Canada's Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe satellite set for launch on a Space-X Falcon 9 rocket in early 2013.

Adria Laycraft

Adria Laycraft
Adria Laycraft is a grateful member of IFWA, a proud survivor...er, graduate of the grueling six-week Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, and an amateur landscape designer. She works as a freelance copywriter and lives in Calgary with her husband and son. Sadly, she is not related to Vala Mal Doran.

Alison Lohans

Alison Lohans
Alison Lohans has published 24 books for young people with Canadian and New Zealand publishers. Her 25th book, Crossings, will be released by Bundoran Press at When Words Collide. Alison has spent decades at her craft-giving readings and writing workshops, presenting at conferences, and teaching writing classes that have reached writers across Canada. Recent awards for Alison's writing include the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature for This Land We Call Home (Pearson, New Zealand). The Saskatchewan Arts Board awarded her a major grant to complete Picturing Alyssa (Dundurn, 2011), which was short-listed for two categories in the 2012 Saskatchewan Book Awards. This past May Alison toured Labrador and Nunatsiavut for Canadian Children's Book Week. Two days before her tour, she was the recipient of the 2012 Regina and southern Saskatchewan YWCA Jacqui Schumiatcher Woman of Distinction Award for the Arts. http://www.alisonlohans.com
http://books4kids.ca

Nicole Luiken

Nicole Luiken
Nicole Luiken wrote her first novel at age 13 and had two books published while still in high school. She is the author of eight YA novels, including Violet Eyes, Frost, Dreamfire and Dreamline. Her latest publication is an adult fantasy romance ebook from Carina Press called Gate to Kandrith, with the sequel scheduled for next spring. website: www.nicoleluiken.com.

Susan MacGregor

Susan MacGregor
Susan MacGregor has been a fiction editor with On Spec magazine since 1991. Her work has been published in On Spec, Northern Frights, and other venues. In 1998, she edited Divine Realms, an anthology through Ravenstone Books, an imprint of Turnstone Press. Her non-fiction book The ABC's of How NOT to Write Speculative Fiction has been the source of many workshops presented by On Spec. She is co-editor of Tesseracts Fifteen through Edge Books. Her agent is currently seeking a publisher for her novel The Tattooed Witch, the first book of a paranormal romance trilogy where the Spanish Inquisition pits itself against gypsy magic.

Tereasa Maillie

Tereasa Maillie
Tereasa Maillie is an experienced historical researcher and writer, and is currently the Historian-In-Residence for the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society. She received her BA in history from the University of Calgary, and has completed her MA work in Chinese history. Recently, her adaptation of Jane Austen's 'Emma' was staged to sold out audiences in April 2012. By day at her desk, she is a Research Analyst, focusing on First Nations and Metis history and legal issues. On her couch at home, she is a World History reporter for examiner.com, short story writer, and cat cuddler.

Elona Malterre

Elona Malterre
Elona Malterre is the author of 3 novels, and one forthcoming (Fall 2012), as well as numerous poems and short stories. She holds a MA in Canadian Poetry and has worked as a security guard, scriptwriter, seller of green garbage bags and cemetery plots, teacher, editor and owner of a bar (not in that order.) She is currently working on producing a movie starring Cher.

Deb Marshall

Deb Marshall
Deb Marshall is the Assistant Manager, Youth Services of Crossfield Municipal Library and has 25 years experience working in the field of literature and programming for children and young adults. She is also a children's writer and member of SCBWI who blogs her passions at Just Deb (www.debamarshall.com).

Micheline Maylor

Micheline Maylor
Micheline Maylor earned a Ph.D. in contemporary Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the UK. She teaches creative writing at Mount Royal University and edits Freefall magazine. Her latest book is due in 2013 with Frontenac House Press in Calgary.

Randy McCharles

Randy McCharles
Randy McCharles has been active in Calgary's writing community for many years with a focus on dark, humorous (and often both) fantasy. In 2009 he received Canada's most prestigious award for SF & F, the Prix-Aurora Award, for both short fiction and fan organization, and was nominated again in both categories in 2012. Randy is a long-time member of IFWA, the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, and in 2009 was published in Year's Best Fantasy 9 (David Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer, ed). He is a regular contributor to the 10th Circle Project (available as eBooks from Amazon.com) and has several stories available in print from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, including in Tesseracts 11, 12, & 16.

Larry McNish

Larry McNish
Larry is a retired Computer Consultant and Electrical Engineer and has been an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer for the past 26 years. He is a former President and is currently Webmaster of the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC), a non-profit organization of 4000 amateur astronomers affiliated with 29 coast-to-coast regional 'centres'. Larry also designed and constructed new Observatories for the Calgary Centre and the University of Calgary. Larry can usually be found at any public "star night" in the Calgary area with his computer-guided telescope showing members of the public the stars, planets and deep-sky objects.

Billie Milholland

Billie Milholland
Billie Milholland wrote one of the speculative fiction novellas in the 2010 Aurora winning "Women of the Apocalypse"; a time-travel novella that appeared in the Edmonton Sun in 5 parts; fiction and non-fiction for magazines and newspapers; and fiction and non-fiction for adults, YA and children. She has also published two non-fiction books - one on the Edmonton Journal best seller list for 12 weeks running. She is a social media fanatic, an information junkie and a devoted fan of let's-try-something-new. Current works-in-progress -- Too many to list.

Joanne Morcom

Joanne Morcom
Joanne Morcom is a Calgary poet with a special interest in SciFaiku, which follows the haiku poetry model, while exploring speculative themes, such as science fiction, horror and fantasy. She's probably the only haiku poet whose work has appeared in Weird Tales. Her SciFaiku collection, A Nameless Place, is available from Sam's Dot Publishing, and her haiku and tanka poetry collection, About the Blue Moon, is available from inkling press. She's a founding member of the Magpie Haiku and Tanka Poets, who are working on their second anthology, Weathered Wings. One of her haiku was recently awarded Best in Show (Adult Poet) in the 5th Annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge, sponsored by the North Carolina State University Insect Museum. Yes, she's a bug lover! She's also a social worker, laughter yoga leader and a living book volunteer with the Calgary Public Library.

Tina Moreau

Tina Moreau
Tina Moreau is a mother, writer, publisher and science fiction geek. Using her years of office management skills, Tina co-owns and manages Tyche Books, an up and coming Canadian publishing house. She enjoys steampunk fashion, escaping into a good book, any TV show that had/has some semblance of science fiction, and dabbles in graphic design and website development. If she isn't doing any of the above, then she is probably out playing with her one year old son. You can find out more about her work at Tyche Books.

Carrie Mumford

Carrie Mumford
Carrie Mumford is a writer and editor living in Calgary, Alberta. She writes short stories and non-fiction articles, and blogs about technology, writing, and (of course) books. Over the past 8 years Carrie has worked as a market researcher and online marketer. By night (and usually on weekends too) she is a freelance editor and social media addict. Carrie's short fiction has appeared in Full of Crow Fiction, Fiction365, Vine Leaves Literary Journal and the WCDR's Whispered Words anthology. Like any self-respecting writer/editor, Carrie has 3 cats, likes coffee and chocolate, and eats typos for breakfast.
Carrie can be found on Twitter (@CarrieMumford), Facebook (facebook.com/CarrieMumford), Google Plus, LinkedIn and carriemumford.com.

Derryl Murphy

Derryl Murphy
Derryl Murphy's novel Napier's Bones is up for an Aurora this year. His next book, the collection Over the Darkened Landscape, is out this fall. A former Albertan, Derryl now makes his home in Toontown.

Virginia O'Dine

Virginia O'Dine
Virginia O'Dine is the publisher for Bundoran Press. She also writes, directs, runs a graphic design business and a small ski resort in her spare time. Recently Virginia wrote the stage adaptation for Robert J. Sawyer's novel Rollback.

Dan O'Driscoll

Dan O'Driscoll
Art for him has really always been about exploration. Giving visual form to worlds that existed only in his imagination was to him a liberating experience, a way to explore those worlds and share them with others. Working in freelance illustration has also allowed him to explore and give visual form to worlds that exist in the minds of other creatives. The results of these often challenging, but rewarding explorations have been featured on magazines and novels across North America. Website: www.djostudio.com

Heather Osborne

Heather Osborne
Heather Osborne is a long-time member of the Imaginative Fiction Writers' association. She has her master's degree in Science Fiction Studies from the University of Liverpool, and she is working towards her doctorate of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary.

Steven Owad

Steven Owad
Steven Owad's published crime novels include Hard Currency (Five Star First Edition Mystery) as well as Bodycheck and Brother's Keeper (Napoleon and Co.).
Steven has also published short stories and poetry in U.S. and Canadian literary magazines. His stage plays have been developed through the Alberta Playwrights Network and Davenport Theatricals (New York), and his first feature-film screenplay, Sons of the Fathers, won the 2011 Alberta Screenwriters Initiative.
As a journalist, Steven has published news, business and feature stories as well as more than 300 arts reviews.
Steven lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife Aleksandra and his daughter Sara. He can be found on the Internet at www.stevenowad.com.

Alyssa Linn Palmer

Alyssa Linn Palmer
Alyssa Linn Palmer is a Canadian writer and freelance editor. She splits her time between a full-time day job, and her part-time loves, writing and editing. Her novella PROHIBITED PASSION and short story BETTING THE FARM are available as ebooks. Her short story VEE will be available in the upcoming charity anthology FELT TIPS in December 2012. She's currently working on two new projects, one of which is a novel set during the gangster heyday in Chicago in 1925. You can find her online at www.alyssalinnpalmer.com, or on Twitter @alyslinn.

Justyn Perry

Justyn Perry
Justyn Perry is the owner and publisher of Breathless Press and Lycaon Press. Breathless Press started in 2009 as an eBook publisher producing quality Romance and Erotic stories. Lycaon Press started in the summer of 2012 with the idea that young readers are growing and needing something nice and dark to read (to stay out of trouble of course!). Justyn has been creating cover art and digital art for many years. His covers appear on many Breathless Press titles as well as titles among other eBook publishers. Breathless Press has recently grown from releasing 2 ebooks a week to 3 ebooks a week. Lycaon Press currently releases one ebook a week.
http://www.breathlesspress.com/
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Sherry Peters

Sherry Peters
Sherry Peters lives in Winnipeg, and started writing around the time she learned to hold a crayon. Her first success was with "The Greatest Honor" (Aoife's Kiss, Sept. 2007), which went on to be featured in their best-of anthology "Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 8". Sherry graduated from Odyssey in 2005 and earned her M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2009. She lived in Northern Ireland for a year and is a member of the Imaginative Fiction Writer's Association (IFWA) in Calgary.

Mike Plested

Mike Plested
Mike Plested is an author, a blogger and a podcaster. His writing podcast, "Get Published", has been nominated for a Parsec award in 2009, 2010 and 2011. His first YA novel, "Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero" is contracted for a Spring 2012 release and he is self-publishing his YA Novel, "The Mystery of Lake Chulala" in July of this year.

Kent Pollard

Kent Pollard
Kent Pollard is the 2011 Canadian Unity Fan Fund delegate. He dabbled in conventional publishing and spent 25 years as a bookseller, before recently taking a sharp turn into network support for the University of Saskatchewan. He began writing at the age of 12, when inspired by Ian Fleming, then switched to SF a year later when he discovered Isaac Asimov. He is an omnivorous reader of F&SF, and writes short fiction with a humorous tint. He lives where he has spent most of his life in Saskatoon, with his wife and an assortment of pets that all boss him around.

Gary Renshaw

Gary Renshaw
Gary Renshaw is an actor, voice artist, carpenter, black smith, writer, 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 last year's short story contest and Vacation which is being published by 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 Daniela Ruah (who portrays Agent Kensi Blye on NCIS: LA) and actress Jane Seymour.

Timothy Reynolds

Timothy Reynolds
Tim Reynolds is a writer, editor, and artist with degrees in History and Education. His own ancestors have danced in and around history from being banished from Salem, MA, to involvement in the Russian Revolution and so it's no surprise that a common element in his screenplays, novels and shorts is a blending of historical facts with fictional tales.

Candice Robinson

Candice Robinson
Candice Robinson has been writing in various forms since she was five but really got serious about it when discovering National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in 2004. 2012 will be her thid year as a Municipal Liaison (regional organiser) in Calgary and she has reached 50,000 words six times (in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011). She writes a little of everything, but mostly dabbles in fantasy and science fiction during NaNoWriMo.

Robert Runté

Robert Runté
Dr. Robert Runté is an associate professor at the University of Lethbridge and an acquisition editor with Five Rivers Publications. Previously, he was on the editorial boards of On Spec Magazine and Tesseract Books; and in 1996 he co-edited (with Yves Meyard) the Tesseracts5 SF anthology. In 1989, his Guide to Canadian Science Fiction won an Aurora Award; he won a second Aurora in 1990.

Catherine Sakaly-Stevens

Catherine Sakaly-Stevens
Catherine Saykaly-Stevens has been directly involved with the Internet since 1995. Her career started by building websites and maintaining Canada's CEONet Satellite content for Natural Resources Canada's first website. She left for California in 1999 to instruct web design and programming for a technical school for five years.
In Calgary, through The Networking Web, she matches companies and individuals to a few manageable online solutions from numerous options. Her main focus is building strategy, content and relationship building using social media tools and networks.
Online changes and trends occur at lightning speed. Catherine enjoys the challenge and online education as a committee member of the Social Media Breakfast: Calgary Chapter.

Cliff Samuels

Cliff Samuels
Organizer, reader and avid collector; those are the best words to describe Cliff. He has been collecting Science Fiction and Fantasy books for over 35 years. It can be said that even if he stopped buying new books he would never be able to read everything he has, but that will never happen. His IT background has allowed him to work on every aspect of conventions for the past 30 years. Cliff is on the board of directors of CSFFA, the national society overseeing the Aurora awards which he manages. He is also part of the When Words Collide committee

Robert J. Sawyer

2011 SF Guest Robert J. Sawyer Returns!
See here for his biography.

Ellen Smith

J. Ellen Smith
Starting out as an author, J. Ellen Smith, of Champagne Books developed an interest in the publishing end of things and soon worked her way through several positions, apprenticing at a small local press before venturing out with her own company. With practical experience combined with a strong business sense, she is proud of the accomplishments made by Champagne Books, its staff and authors.

Jefferson Smith

Jefferson Smith
Jeff is a young adult fantasy author who collaborated extensively with teens while writing his first novel, Strange Places, the first installment in the Finding Tayna series, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Saskatchewan Book Awards. His next book is the first in a fantasy picture book series for preschoolers, and he is writing slavishly to deliver Book 2 of the Finding Tayna series, Strange People. Prior to his return to academia, Jeff spent 20 years in the multimedia software development and Hollywood special effects industry, working on such films as Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, Aladdin, and The Lion King. He finds that this background offers an excellent beachhead for engaging young writers, and he now works regularly with teen writers and artists to help them tell their own stories in whatever medium suits their abilities and interests. He also blogs regularly on tips and tools for writers at www.creativityhacker.ca.

BoB Stallworthy

Bob Stallworthy
Bob Stallworthy has been writing and publishing poetry for 25 years. He has 4 books of poetry published and one non-fiction e-book published on the Frontenac House website. His poetry has been shortlisted for the W.O.Mitchell, City of Calgary Book Prize twice and for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry once. He is a member of The Writers Union of Canada, a co-recipient of the 2002 Calgary Freedom of Expression Award and a Lifetime member of the Writers Guild of Alberta.

Dan St. Yves

Dan St. Yves
Dan St.Yves is the author of "Nonsense & Stuff", as well as a freelance writer whose features have appeared in national and regional magazines, as well as newspapers across Canada. Visit thatdanguy.blogspot.ca for links to his writing, Twitter, and podcast interviews with authors! Sometimes blogs as a rubber chicken - hey, you were warned...

Det. Sweet

Det. Sweet
Det. Sweet became a member of the Calgary Police Service in 1998 after graduating from the Mount Royal College Criminology program. He has worked in general patrol, general investigations, the Drug Unit and in the Organized Crime Section. Det Sweet brings to his presentation his extensive experience with suspicious death investigations in the Homicide Unit. He'll leave you spell bound as he reveals how dead men do talk.

Patrick Swenson

Patrick Swenson
Patrick Swenson edited Talebones magazine for 14 years, and still runs Fairwood Press, a book line, which began in 2000. A graduate of Clarion West, he has sold stories to the anthology Like Water for Quarks, and magazines such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Figment, and others. He runs the Rainforest Writers Village retreat every spring at Lake Quinault, Washington. Patrick has been a high school teacher for 27 years. He lives in Bonney Lake, Washington with his ten-year-old son Orion.

Hayden Trenholm

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.

Diane Walton

Diane Walton
Diane Walton has been with On Spec since it began in 1989, and currently serves as Managing Editor. Her own fiction has been published in the "Northern Frights" and "Divine Realms" anthologies, as well as appearing on the pages of On Spec. She lives in Alberta with her husband, Rick, and two spoiled cats.

Sharon Wildwind

Sharon Wildwind
Sharon Wildwind is a Calgary writer. She has been published in non-fiction and mysteries, but also writes speculative fiction, romantic mysteries, and plays. Her web site is www.wildwindauthor.com.

Ed Willett

Ed Willett
Edward Willett is the author of more than 40 books of fiction and non-fiction. Born in Silver City, New Mexico, he moved to Saskatchewan from Texas when he was eight years old and grew up in Weyburn. After studying journalism in Arkansas, he returned to Weyburn as a reporter/photographer for the Weyburn Review, becoming news editor in 1984. In 1988 he moved to Regina as communications officer for the fledgling Saskatchewan Science Centre, and remained there until 1993, when he became a fulltime freelance writer. Among his novels: Marseguro (DAW Books), which won the Aurora Award for best long-form work in English in 2009, the sequel Terra Insegura, nominated for an Aurora the following year, and Spirit Singer (Awe-Struck), a young adult fantasy that won the Regina Book Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2002. His most recent novel is the epic fantasy Magebane (DAW Books), written under the pseudonym Lee Arthur Chane; he's now working on Masks, the first book in a new series, to appear from DAW under the pseudonym E.C. Blake. Nonfiction titles run the gamut from computer books to science books to history and biography, on topics as diverse as genetics, Ebola virus, quantum mechanics, the Iran-Iraq War, the mutiny on the Bounty, Jimi Hendrix, Andy Warhol, and Orson Scott Card. Ed just completed a nine-month stint as Writer in Residence at the Regina Public Library. In addition to writing, he is a professional actor and singer. www.edwardwillett.com.

Jude Wilner

Jude Wilner
Jude Wilner has been writing since the 1980s when she tackled her first romance novel. Every spring she would send a manuscript into Harlequin and every summer they would send it back with a kind letter telling her what she was doing wrong and what few things she was doing right. After several years of writing on her own, a chance phone call hooked her up with the Alberta Romance Writers' Association who invited her to join their tiny group. Over the following two years, she subsequently learned the lessons needed to finally see her work published.
Her first novel with Harlequin/Silhouette, Just One of the Guys, came out in 1992 and earned Romantic Times' Reviewer's Choice Certificate of Excellence. Northern Manhunt followed in 1993, and A Miracle for Bryan -- which made the Waldenbooks Romance bestseller list -- in 1994. Back in My Heart, published with Kensington Publishers was released in 1998.
Writing with Diana Scott, Jude co-wrote the winning entry, Widows' Row, in the Alibi Unplugged contest at the Banff Television Festival in 2004.
Currently, Jude's Elizabethan time travel novel, Bewitching Ways, is available online with New Concepts Publishing under the pen name Judy Fayre.

Jack Whyte

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

Debra Yeung

Debra Yeung
Debra is the 2012 Canadian Unity Fan Fund delegate. Deb discovered SF & F books at an early age and was often scolded for reading "that Science Fiction Stuff". She has been a 'Serial Volunteer' for much of her life, from media liaison for the Hamilton Pagan Pride Festival to a decade with Hamilton's "It's Your Festival", and is also a recipient of the 10 year Ontario Volunteer Service Award. More recently Deb became involved with SFContario, taking on roles from Party Maven to Program Director. In 2013 she will be Vice Chair for SFContario 4.