Aaron J Arsenault
Aaron Arsenault is a citizen of Mother Earth, a climate-tech industry veteran, and a concerned dad. His passion for the environment and the lack of inspirational material for young readers on the topic influenced him to become a writer of climate fiction. When he’s not writing, Aaron enjoys the outdoors, playing guitar, making art, and embarking on his next adventure. Aaron studied children’s writing and illustration as a postgraduate at the University of Toronto. He lives with his family, a crazy cat, and a goofy goldendoodle in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Catherine Bush
Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), a Globe & Mail Best Book, and The Rules of Engagement (2000), a New York Times Notable Book and a Globe & Mail and L.A. Times Best Book of the Year. Her books have been shortlisted for the Trillium and City of Toronto Book Awards in Canada. She was a 2019 Fiction Meets Science Fellow at the HWK in Germany and has written and spoken internationally about responding to the climate crisis through fiction. She is the Coordinator of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA, located in Toronto, and can be found online at http://www.catherinebush.com.
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Clara Hume
Clara Hume graduated with BAs in English and anthropology at Purdue University. She grew up in the United States, where her parents introduced her at an early age to hiking, climbing mountains, horseback riding, canoeing, white-water rafting, and camping—filling her with a deep respect for the wilderness. She now lives in Nova Scotia with her partner and two cats. As a curator at Dragonfly.eco, a site that explores world eco-fiction, she has interviewed several award-winning authors and built a database of over 800 novels. She also founded Moon Willow Press in 2009 and its newest imprint Dragonfly Publishing.
The novel Back to the Garden explores relationships and redemption in a post-collapse, climate changed world. She recently published Bird Song: A Novella, a coming-of-age story set on a mysterious island, serving as a re-imagining of a famous Greek myth as well as a climate-change parable. She contributed to Stormbird Press’s Tales from the River anthology, writing about her time spent rafting the Atnarko River in British Columbia. Mary has been a guest author at SFFWorld.com, Fjord’s Review, Chicago Review of Books, Free Word Centre, and ClimateCultures. Her work has been syndicated at Artists & Climate Change and at the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA), and a few of her articles have been translated at Zest Letteratura Sostenible and Chinese Science Writers Association. She has been a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment and is an ongoing member of International League of Nature Writers and Nova Scotia’s Ecology Action Centre.
C.S. MacCath
Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran holds a B.A. in Celtic Studies from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Maine, and a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She is also an author, poet, and musician under the name C.S. MacCath. Her long-running Folklore & Fiction Project integrates these passions with a focus on folklore scholarship aimed at storytellers, and she brings a deep appreciation of animism, ecology, and folkloristics to her own storytelling.
Craig Russell
Craig Russell is a Canadian author and playwright. His 2016 climate crisis novel, Fragment was selected by Yale University’s Climate Connections for their 2017 climate-fiction reading list. (Fragment is published by Thistledown Press.). His first novel, Black Bottle Man, received the 2011 American Moonbeam Gold Medal and was a finalist for the Canadian Aurora Award for best novel. His stage adaptation of that story will be performed in Richmond, Virginia, USA in March, 2019 as part of the annual Acts of Faith Theatre Festival. Craig is a retired lawyer who administered the land titles system for 5,000 square miles of Manitoba, Canada.
Karl Schroeder
Karl Schroeder is a Canadian science fiction writer whose award-winning novels frequently explore themes of next-gen economics and climate change solutions. His short novels Crisis in Zefra (2005) and Crisis in Urlia (2011) are innovative ‘scenario fictions’ commissioned by the Canadian army as study and research tools.
Allister Thompson
Allister Thompson was born in the UK and spent his childhood in Mississauga, Ontario, where he got his first part-time job in a small bookstore at the mall at age sixteen. He has spent the rest of his life working in the publishing and bookselling industries. He worked for small and mid-sized publishers in Toronto for fifteen years before striking out on his own as a freelance editor. This freedom eventually led him to North Bay, Ontario, where he has lived and worked with dozens of authors for the past ten years. He is the author of the speculative fiction novels “The Music of the Spheres” (2021) and “Birch and Jay” (2025). He is also a musician/composer with dozens of albums in his discography, recording under his own name and as The Gateless Gate and Twilight Fields.
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