Festival

Lynn Coady
Lynn Coady is an award-winning author of six
works of fiction. Her first novel, Strange Heaven, was
nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and in
2011, her novel The Antagonist was shortlisted for the
prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, an award she won
in 2013 for her short story collection Hellgoing. Coady
lives in Toronto, where she writes for television.
Elizabeth Hay
Elizabeth Hay’s nine books include short fiction,
creative non-fiction, and five novels, notably the Giller
Prize-winning Late Nights on Air and most recently
His Whole Life, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust
Fiction Prize. Formerly a radio broadcaster, she spent
a number of years in Mexico and New York City
before returning to Canada. Elizabeth contributed the
introduction to the Penguin Modern Classic edition
of “The View from Castle Rock” (2010) by Alice Munro
and she also authored a chapter in the Cambridge
Companion to Alice Munro, 2016. She lives in Ottawa.
Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is the author of seven books of fiction and
non-fiction, including the novel, How Should a Person
Be? and the New York Times bestseller Women in
Clothes, which features the voices of 639 women from
around the world. She has published in Harper’s, The
New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, The New York
Times and The London Review of Books. Her
writing has been translated into more than a dozen
languages. She works collaboratively and alone from
her home in Toronto.
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