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Author Biographies Anne Emery Lethbridge Herald Author Stage 4:00 - 4:45 • Book Signing 2:00 - 2:45 Named "one of Canada's finest novelists" (Ottawa Review of Books), Anne Emery is a lawyer and the author of the Collins-Burke mystery series. She has won an Arthur Ellis Award, an Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal, and a Dartmouth Book Award. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Though the Heavens Fall is her tenth novel. Susan Forest Canadian Heritage Author Stage 2:00 - 2:45 • Book Signing 3:00 - 3:45 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. Susan is also an award-winning fiction editor, has published over 25 short stories, 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. Follow her at addictedtoheaven.com and speculative-fiction.ca. Christian Guay-Poliquin Canadian Heritage Author Stage 4:00 - 4:45 • Book Signing 3:00 - 3:45 Christian Guay-Poliquin was born just nort of the US border in Saint-Armand, Québec in 1982. Le fil des kilometers, his first novel, was published by both La Pleuplade and Bibliothèque québécoise in Québec, and by Phébus in France. It appeared in English as Running on Fumes (Talonbooks, 2016). The Weight of Snow is being translated into nine languages (includimg Spanish, Italian, German, and Czech), and is enjoying great public and critical success in France and Québec. He is now developing a thesis project on the hunting narrative and also works in renovation. The pencil on his ear serves to mark his measures as much as it does to record his ideas. Hali Heavy Shield Kitssksaahkoominnaani Stage 12:00 - 12:45 • Book Signing 1:00 - 1:45 Hali Heavy Shield (Nato'yi'kina'soyi Holy Light That Shines Bright) is from the Blood Tribe of southern Alberta. She is a writer and graphic artist who finds inspiration from Blackfoot stories, land teachings, and family to inform her work. Ms. Heavy Shield is currently working on her PhD at the University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education. Anna Humphrey Kids' Zone Stage 11:15 am - 12:00 pm • Book Signing 12:00 - 12:45 Anna Humphrey has worked in marketing for a poetry organization, in communications for the Girl Guides of Canada, as an editor for a webzine, as an intern at a decorating magazine and for the government. None of those was quite right, so she started her own freelance writing and editing business on top of writing for kids and teens. She lives in a big, old brick house in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband and two kids and no bats. Yet. SPONSORED BY JOHN USHER & WENDY FAITH USHER SPONSORED BY BOWDRIKS INDUSTRIES SPONSORED BY SPONSORED BY