‘The Kappa Child is a delightful, wholly original book, a multi-layered story of dysfunctional family life, unexpected pregnancy, true friendship, alien abduction, budding romance and intimate encounters with mythical creatures.’      —Tiptree Award Committee

Hiromi Goto won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her first book, the novel Chorus of Mushrooms. Our featured novel The Kappa Child (Red Deer, 2001) was nominated for the Sunburst Award for Canadian fantasy literature and won the annual s/f and fantasy James Tiptree Jr. Award. Born in Japan, Goto immigrated to Canada with her family and now lives outside Vancouver, British Columbia.

‘Plowing the Dark is a work of unsettling brilliance, and the small chorus waiting to officially coronate Powers as our greatest living novelist may, at last, have found its fiat.’     —Tom Bissell, Boston Review

Named one of the five writers of the decade by Esquire magazine, Richard Powers writes novels that, like our featured novel Plowing the Dark (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000), draw on current science as well as a deep attraction to music, art, and history. Powers is a three-time nominee for the National Book Critics Circle award and a recipient of the MacArthur genius award. He lives in Illinois, where he teaches at the University of Illinois.

“McGimpsey’s work never leaves the impression of a highbrow deigning to walk among the great unwashed. It’s more in the spirit of Greil Marcus, finding meaning and connections where we hadn’t suspected them.”      —The Montreal Gazette

Montrealer David McGimpsey is the uncrowned poet laureate of North American popular culture. His insights into society’s guilty pleasures in books like our featured poetry collection, Hamburger Valley, California (ECW, 2001), and Imagining Baseball: America’s Favourite Pastime, which won the Popular Culture Association’s award for Best Scholarly Study, have won accolades from reviewers on both sides of the border. McGimpsey teaches creative writing at Concordia University.