READING: Andrusyshyn, Clark, Doctorow, Redekop, Sawyer

Poet Larissa Andrusyshyn received an MA in English and creative writing at Concordia University. She lives and writes in Montreal, and coordinates creative writing workshops for at-risk youth. Her work has appeared in Headlight, Soliloquies, Versal and in the anthologies Running With Scissors and The Future Hygienic. Andrusyshyn shares her first book, Mammoth, an exciting and wide-ranging collection of poems about family and memory in the context of human bio-intervention, which was longlisted for the ReLit Award.

Stuart Clark is a former editor of the UK’s bestselling popular astronomy magazine Astronomy Now and a visiting fellow of the University of Hertfordshire. He divides most of his time between writing books and writing for the European Space Agency as senior editor for space science, alongside producing features for the BBC. He has written 17 books to date, which have been translated into 12 languages. Clark’s The Sensorium of God is the second in a trilogy of novels inspired by the dramatic struggles and key historical events in man’s quest to understand the universe.

Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing and a columnist for multiple publications including The Guardian, Locus and Publishers Weekly. He was named one of the web’s 25 influencers by Forbes magazine. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller. Doctorow presents The Rapture of the Nerds, co-written with Charles Stross, a science fiction novel set at the dusk of the 21st century.

Actor, waiter, disc jockey, cameraman, editor, publicist, librarian and now author, Corey Redekop lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His first novel, Shelf Monkey, was widely praised. Redekop presents his latest work, Husk, which centres on Sheldon Funk, a struggling actor who dies in a bus restroom only to awaken during his autopsy and realize he has become a Zombie.

Robert J. Sawyer was named one of the 30 most influential people in CanLit by Quill & Quire. He has won all three of science fiction’s top honours for best novel: the Best Novel Hugo Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award. He has his own science fiction imprint with Red Deer Press of Calgary, Robert J. Sawyer Books. In Sawyer’s latest novel, Triggers, a terrorist bomb scrambles a device intended to erase traumatic memories, allowing a group of people access to one another’s minds.

Kyle Carsten Wyatt is the managing editor of The Walrus.