Don Aker
Agent: Marie Campbell

Don Aker has worked as a junior/senior language arts and mathematics teacher for the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board for over twenty years.

Jan Andrews
Agent: Marie Campbell

Jan Andrews lives at the end of a road on a lake in Lanark, Ontario. She believes this is the perfect setting for someone who is a passionate lover of the outdoors.

Bob Barton
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Educator Bob Barton is a founding member of the Storytellers School of Toronto and has been a feature storyteller at festivals across North America, England and Australia.

Matt Beam
Agent: Marie Campbell

Matt Beam is a young adult author, freelance journalist, photographer, and teacher living in Toronto, Ontario.

Holly Bennett
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Holly Bennett is the author of of The Bonemender teen fantasy series (The Bonemender, The Bonemender's Oath, and The Bonemender's Choice), as well as The Warrior's Daughter - all published by Orca.

Joan Bodger
Agent: Lynn Bennett

The late Joan Bodger's work in Canada included helping to found the Storytellers School of Toronto.

Dan Bortolotti
Agent: Shaun Bradley

Dan Bortolotti is a freelance journalist and writer of works for both children and adults. He specializes in science.

Karleen Bradford
Agent: Marie Campbell

Karleen Bradford has been delighting children of all ages with her writing for almost 20 years. She grew up in Argentina and travelled the world with her husband, James, a Canadian Diplomat.

Sarah S. Brannen
Agent: Karen Klockner

Sarah S. Brannen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rachel Brannon
Agent: Karen Klockner

Rachel Brannon chose the musical selections for the anthology From Sea to Shining Sea (Scholastic) which has sold over 250,000 copies; she is currently researching a book about presidential first ladies.

Donna Broder and Julie Macht
Agent: Karen Klockner

Author and design team Donna Broder and Julie Macht have combined their expertise to create a series of interactive books for children.

Shana Burg
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Shana Burg studied public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, worked on a Mississippi hunger-relief project, taught in one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse public schools, and worked with youth internationally.

Hope Burkard
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Hope Burkard holds an English degree from the University of Calgary and is currently in the final year of an Honors degree in Art History at the University of Alberta with plans to pursue graduate studies.

Mary Casanova
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

When it comes to writing for children, Mary Casanova is passionate about two things: writing books that matter and writing books that kids can't put down.

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

e.E. Charlton Trujillo received rave reviews for her first novel, Prizefighter en Mi Casa (Delacorte). She is also an independent film maker.

Amy Cohn
Agent: Karen Klockner

Author-anthologist Amy L. Cohn is the compiler of the best-selling anthology From Sea to Shining Sea (Scholastic) which has sold more than 250,000 copies.

Lauren Collier Swindler
Agent: Karen Klockner

Laurie Swindler is a playwright and author and is active in schools and libraries presenting programs for both children and adults.

Eric Copeland
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Eric Copeland was born and educated in Essex, England. He has had a varied career including being a town planner in England and in Canada.

John Coy
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

John Coy is an award-winning author, who worked as a dishwasher, mattress maker, and tour guide before taking up writing. He's active in sports and is a member of the NBA Reading All-Star Team as part of the Read to Achieve program.

Sheilah Currie and Jill Bever
Agent: Barb Miller

Teachers Sheilah Currie and Jill Bever know that learning to read is a critical rite of passage for kids. Sought for their expertise by parents and professionals alike, they convey a passion for early literacy.

Anita Daher
Agent: Marie Campbell

Anita Daher has been entrenched in the book publishing industry for several years writing books, articles and reviews, leading workshops and presentations, and has worked on the publishing end of things as a marketing director, and editor.

Rachelle Delaney
Agent: Marie Campbell

Rachelle Delaney has worked as a freelance writer, editor, and book reviewer, with publications in Canadian magazines and newspapers such as Yes Mag, Nature Canada, and the Edmonton Journal.

Angela Dorsey
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Angela Dorsey is a full-time writer living in British Columbia. Her juvenile fiction novels are action-packed and full of adventure, and many contain an element of the supernatural.

Matt Duggan
Agent: Marie Campbell

Matt Duggan was born in Alberta and grew up there and in Manitoba. After graduating from high school in Winnipeg, he alternated years of university study - four different universities in all - with years of work and travel.

Harry Endrulat
Agent: Marie Campbell

A prolific writer, editor, and publisher in his own right, Harry Endrulat has worked in the book industry for many years.

Kathleen Ernst
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Kathleen Ernst is an Edgar-nominated author of historical fiction for children.

Cary Fagan
Agent: Marie Campbell

Cary Fagan is a highly acclaimed, award-winning author of picture books and novels for kids, as well as novels and anthologies for adults.

Lesley Fairfield
Agent: Samantha Haywood

Lesley Fairfield, a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, began her career in children’s illustration.

Christine Ford
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Christine Ford grew up in the beautiful Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, but now lives close to the Trinity River on which Ft. Worth, Texas was established.

Colin Frizzell
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Raised in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Colin Frizzell graduated from Radio Broadcasting at Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology.

Priscilla Galloway
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Priscilla Galloway, Ph.D, has been a full-time author since 1993. Too Young to Fight: Memories from our Youth During World War II, won the major international Bologna Ragazzi award in 2000, the first Canadian book to do so.

Leslie Garrett
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Passionate and professional, Leslie Garrett is a national award-winning journalist and editor. She is the author of eleven books for children, as well as two syndicated columns and a book for adults.

Maureen Garvie
Agent: Marie Campbell

Maureen Garvie is a young adult author who also teaches writing to young adults. She is an instructor at Queen's University's Writing Centre and an editor for McGill-Queen's University Press.

Natale Ghent
Agent: Marie Campbell

Natale Ghent is an award-winning author and journalist. She has been writing stories and poems since she was a very young girl and hopes to continue until she is a very old woman.

Rachna Gilmore
Agent: Marie Campbell

Rachna Gilmore was born in India and lived in Bombay until the age of fourteen when her family moved to London, England. Books were always a source of delight, solace and inspiration.

John Grandits
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

John Grandits has worked in publishing most of his life. As a designer and art director, he's attacked adult trade, college text, scholarly, juvenile trade and juvenile text books.

Linda Granfield
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Linda Granfield has an instinct for writing about topics that fascinate and inform young people. This coupled with an award-winning style has made her one of the top non-fiction writers in North America.

Vicki Grant
Agent: Marie Campbell

Vicki Grant began as a copywriter and next conquered children's television, writing for series such as Theodore Tugboat, Big Comfy Couch, Sesame Park and Skinnamarink TV.

Rita Gray
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Rita Gray's love of children has been the one constant of her life. Raised in Southern California, with three younger sisters, Rita moved north to Berkeley, where she ran an After School Program.

Erin Haley
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Having put pen to paper for as long as she can remember, Erin Haley was also a dancer and dance instructor for over eight years.

Barbara Hehner
Agent: Shaun Bradley

A freelance editor and journalist, Barbara Hehner is equally well equipped to write for adults, young adults and children.

Linda Holeman
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Linda honed her instincts for writing growing up in Manitoba, in a family that told a lot of stories, usually after supper around the table.

Sally Holmes Holtze
Agent: Karen Klockner

The articles, essays, and book reviews of Sally Holmes Holtz have been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other periodicals. She is also the author of Presenting Norma Fox Mazer, a book of biography and criticism of

Lisa Horstman
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Lisa Horstman began her children’s book career in 1994, when she was awarded the Dr. Seuss Picture book Award for writing and illustrating her picture book submission, Fast Friends.

Johanna Hurwitz
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Johanna Hurwitz is the author of more than 60 books for young readers.

Rick Jacobson and Laura Fernandez
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Rick Jacobson and Laura Fernandez have achieved great success in advertising and publishing over the past twenty years.

Barbara Johansen Newman
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Before writing and illustrating, Barbara Johansen Newman was an award winning soft sculpture artist, exhibiting in craft galleries throughout the US and Canada.

Kim Kane
Agent: Marie Campbell

Kim Kane was born in London in a bed bequeathed by Wordsworth for “…a writer, a dancer or a poet”. Despite this auspicious beginning, she went on to study law.

Ibi Kaslik
Agent: Shaun Bradley

Ibi Kaslik is a New York Times betselling author and poet, and occasional freelance journalist.

Edward Kay
Agent: Marie Campbell

Michael Arvaaluk Kusugak
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Award-winning Inuit author Michael Kusugak lives in Rankin Inlet. A story teller from a rich oral tradition, Michael also worked for the government for 15 years.

Deb Loughead
Agent: Marie Campbell

Deb Loughead, a Toronto author, poet and workshop leader, has been writing since she learned how to read.

Carol Matas
Agent: Lynn Bennett

Carol Matas is an internationally acclaimed author of over thirty novels for children and young adults.