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Shawn Syms<br />
Shawn Syms has written for over 25 years for more<br />
than 50 publications. Shawn wrote the 2015 Relit<br />
Award–finalist short-fiction collection Nothing Looks<br />
Familiar, a National Post pick for the Top Books of<br />
2014 recently seized by the Michigan Department<br />
of Corrections because it “may encourage criminal<br />
activity.” Shawn is currently at work on a novel<br />
about the power of filthy lucre, fetishistic sex<br />
and compulsive gambling called Money Changes<br />
Everything.<br />
Mariko Tamaki<br />
Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer. She is the cocreator<br />
of the award winning NYT Bestseller This<br />
One Summer (with Jillian Tamaki), Skim (with Jillian<br />
Tamaki), and Emiko Superstar (with Steve Rolston).<br />
Her most recent YA novel is Saving Montgomery Sole.<br />
Marikotamaki.blogspot.com<br />
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Robert Thacker<br />
Robert Thacker is Charles A. Dana Professor of<br />
Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence<br />
University. Beginning in the 1970s, he focused much<br />
of his scholarly attention on Alice Munro and her<br />
work as she emerged as the major Canadian writer<br />
of her generation. Writing an early M. A. thesis on<br />
Munro (1976), Thacker has continued to publish<br />
critical essays and reviews since then. A selection<br />
of these essays, newly contextualized, was just<br />
published in February 2016 by the University of<br />
Calgary Press: Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013. He<br />
is also Munro’s biographer, having published Alice<br />
Munro: Writing Her Lives (2005, revised 2011), a<br />
book written with Ms. Munro’s cooperation. More<br />
recently, he has edited Alice Munro, a collection<br />
of new essays by various hands forthcoming from<br />
Bloomsbury Academic in September 2016.
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