Melanie has been writing full-time since 2010 and has written a bunch of books, but she’s probably best known for her picture books Missing Nimama, which won the 2016 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and Stolen Words, which won the 2018 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award.|In her spare time, Melanie plays guitar, reads manga, collects vinyl, listens to really loud rock music and slightly quieter K-pop, gets tattoos and drinks too much coffee. She lives in Toronto with her family.
Robert Tinkler
Robert Tinkler is a writer, podcast producer and voice actor. He has worked on animated and live-action series for Disney, Netflix, PBS, Cartoon Network and Corus Entertainment. For his performance in the hit PBS series Cyberchase, he received a Daytime Emmy–Award nomination. Robert lives with his family in Toronto, Ontario.
Nicola Jones
Nicola Jones is an award-winning science journalist with a background in chemistry and oceanography who lives in the wilds of Pemberton, British Columbia. She writes about all science from anthropology to quantum physics, with environmental issues at the heart of it all. While she normally writes features for grown-ups, she has also published for children in the magazine Current Science. In 2019, she gave a TED Talk about noise pollution in the ocean.
Kate Jenks Landry
Kate Jenks Landry is the author of the picture books Beatrice and Barb, A Summer without Anna and All the Basements on Blackberry Street, with a fourth book forthcoming in 2029. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Toronto. She’s also the author of the blog The Needle and the Knife, where she shares interviews with other creatives, exploring questions of craft, community and creative process.
Thọ Phạm
Thọ Phạm left Vietnam alone at the age of 12, joining tens of thousands of refugees on boats and ships. After a two-month-long journey at sea and landing at a refugee camp in Palawan, Philippines, he was eventually adopted by a Canadian elementary school teacher. Thọ lives in Ottawa with his family.