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Featuring
GUEST EDITOR/ARTIST BIOS:
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Janet McNaughton has written six novels, a picture book and one junior novel. Her books have won eleven awards and are published outside Canada. Janet took creative writing courses at York University, then moved to Newfoundland to do graduate work in folklore. Ten years later, with an MA and a Ph.D, Janet wrote for magazines, then tried a novel. Her book To Dance at the Palais Royale, won three awards. Janet's books range from historical fiction to science fiction and fantasy. |
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Anar Ali holds a Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing) from the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The National Post, and Event among others; and her stories have been nominated for The Journey Prize, The National Magazine Award, and ThePushcart Prize. Baby Khaki's Wings (Penguin 2006) is her first book. She was born in Tanzania, grew up in Alberta, and lives in Toronto. |
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Darren O’Donnell is a novelist, essayist, playwright, director, designer, actor and artistic director of Mammalian Diving Reflex. His shows include A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, pppeeeaaaccceee, [boxhead], White Mice... Darren has organized The Toronto Strategy Meetings, a durational project focusing on self-responsibility as a social act; The Talking Creature, a continuing experiment in public discourse; Haircuts by Children, etc. He also has two books: Your Secrets Sleep with Me and Social Acupuncture. |
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Songwriter Linda M has performed at the Legendary Bitter End and CBGB's in New York City, opened for Don Henley, Santana and Natalie Merchant at The Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto and had four club and concert tours in Germany. Her music is featured in Season 5 of the WB's hit series "Dawson's Creek". Linda M spent the last three years leading songwriting workshops at Trent University, in the Durham School Board and at Can Stage Theatre. |
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Hadley Dyer grew up in Nova Scotia and lives in Toronto, where she is the children’s book editor at James Lorimer & Company. She also writes children’s books, has been a regular contributor to magazines and teaches in the publishing program at Ryerson University. She has been active in the book industry for many years as a bookseller, publicist, reviewer, library coordinator of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, and past president of the Canadian section of the International Board on Books for Young People. |
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Three brothers, Anthony and Justin Strawberry and Jermaine Smith, made their name creating black comic book heroes. They all joined to form a design and advertising company called Freeze DNA in 2001. The popularity of their Comic Book Blac Ice, and their natural talent for teaching led them to help students draw comic book art. They recently launched a new comic book product, Create your own Comic Book. |
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Dan Yashinsky has been a working storyteller for almost thirty years. He is the recipient of a Toronto Book award for Tales for an Unknown City, and the author of The Storyteller at Fault. He founded the Toronto Festival of Storytelling, was one of the founders of the Storytellers School of Toronto and began the 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling in 1978, a weekly institution in Toronto that continues to this day. In 1999 he was the recipient of the Jane Jacobs Prize for making a valued contribution to Toronto’s cultural life. |
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