Born in Winnipeg, but barely lived there, Kevin grew up moving across Canada. When he finally settled down in Calgary, he started getting the urge to tell stories. He started by writing stageplays, then for film and television, and now proudly writes "whatever's good." He attended SAIT Polytechnic and the University of Calgary, both for film, which was where he wrote the AMPIA winning short film, My Life is A Musical. His short stories can be found in Red Sun Magazine and Enigma Front, as well as being finalists in the In Places Between contest. His novel, Endless Hunger, is being published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy and is the first in a series of cyberpunk fantasy novels.

RON S. FRIEDMAN is an Amazon.ca #1 Best Seller in Time Travel, a Calgary Herald #1 Best Seller and Best Short Fiction finalist in the 2016 Aurora Awards, Canada’s premier Science-Fiction and Fantasy awards. Ron's time travel thriller, TYPHOON TIME, have been released by WorkFire Press in March 2018. Ron’s short stories have appeared in Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, and in other magazines and anthologies. Ron co-edited three anthologies and he received ten Honorable Mentions in Writers of the Future Contest. Ron is a Quora most viewed author in Astronomy and Planetary Science, with over 3,400,000 views. Originally from Israel, Ron is living with his loving wife and two children in Calgary.

Celeste A. Peters’ earliest success in the world of writing came at age 11, when her poem Thoughts of Time was awarded both first and second place in a youth poetry contest sponsored by the City of Carson Department of Parks and Recreation. Subsequent encouragement by high school and university English teachers to make writing her career, while appreciated, fell on deaf ears, as Celeste’s focus turned to the attainment of an undergraduate degree in Astronomy and an MA in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Her love of both writing and things scientific had a happy collision years later when Celeste became Science Editor for The Winnipeg Sun. Her ability to translate tech talk into something everyone could digest became apparent and book contracts followed. The launch of her very first book, Don’t Be SAD: Your Guide to Conquering Seasonal Affective Disorder, saw Celeste traveling cross-country to do television interviews on Canada AM, The Dini Show, Toronto’s CBC Nightly News, Montreal AM Live, Calgary’s Breakfast Show and CTV News at Noon. Unfortunately, she took only one nice dress suit along and wore it on every show. This became painfully apparent to the public the day she appeared on Montreal AM Live, which aired immediately following her pre-taped interview on The Dini Show. It looked like she had instantaneously walked off the set in Toronto and onto the set in Montreal. Fortunately, the show’s host made a joke to that effect and Celeste’s face, which was as red as her power suit, toned down several notches. Celeste went on to pen several more non-fiction books then, in 2011, she succumbed to the allure of imaginative fiction. She now spends her writing time exploring the landscapes of new worlds and delving into the psyches of troubled beings. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Celeste resides in Calgary, Alberta, where she is a member of the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.

Susan Forest grew up in a family of mountaineers and skiers, and she loves adventure. She also loves the big ideas found in SF/F, and finds fast-paced adventure stories a great place to explore how individuals grapple with complex moral decisions. Aurora Award winners, Bursts of Fire and Flights of Marigold, first books in her Addicted to Heaven series, confront issues of addiction in an epic fantasy world of intrigue and betrayal. Susan is also an award-winning fiction editor, has published over 25 short stories (Analog, Asimov's, BCS, & more), and has appeared at many international writing conventions. She loves travel and has been known to dictate novels from the back of her husband's motorcycle. http://speculative-fiction.ca/

CHRIS PATRICK CAROLAN is an author, editor, and hovercraft enthusiast, originally from Glasgow but now based in Calgary, Alberta. He writes science fiction, fantasy (urban and epic), steampunk, and horror, though he has also been known to turn to crime to make ends meet. Crime fiction, that is. His first novel, THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL, was published by Parliament House Press in 2020, and was a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence ‘Best First Novel’ award. He can be found on Twitter as @cpcwrites but–consider this fair warning–it’s mostly wisecracks about McNuggets.

Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers. He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction: the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Mindscan. Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors. He credits two of his favourite shows from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Search and Star Trek, with teaching him some of the fundamentals of the science-fiction craft. Sawyer was obsessed with outer space from a young age, and he vividly remembers watching the televised Apollo missions. He claims to have watched the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey 25 times. He began writing science fiction in a high school club, which he co-founded, NASFA (Northview Academy Association of Science Fiction Addicts). Sawyer graduated in 1982 from the Radio and Television Arts Program at Ryerson University, where he later worked as an instructor. Sawyer's first published book, Golden Fleece (1989), is an adaptation of short stories that had previously appeared in the science-fiction magazine Amazing Stories. This book won the Aurora Award for the best Canadian science-fiction novel in English. In the early 1990s Sawyer went on to publish his inventive Quintaglio Ascension trilogy, about a world of intelligent dinosaurs. His 1995 award winning The Terminal Experiment confirmed his place as a major international science-fiction writer. A prolific writer, Sawyer has published more than 10 novels, plus two trilogies. Reviewers praise Sawyer for his concise prose, which has been compared to that of the science-fiction master Isaac Asimov. Like many science fiction-writers, Sawyer welcomes the opportunities his chosen genre provides for exploring ideas. The first book of his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids (2002), is set in a near-future society, in which a quantum computing experiment brings a Neanderthal scientist from a parallel Earth to ours. His 2006 Mindscan explores the possibility of transferring human consciousness into a mechanical body, and the ensuing ethical, legal, and societal ramifications. A passionate advocate for science fiction, Sawyer teaches creative writing and appears frequently in the media to discuss his genre. He prefers the label "philosophical fiction," and in no way sees himself as a predictor of the future. His mission statement for his writing is "To combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic." http://us.macmillan.com/author/robert...