Meet the Team

The Word On The Street is more than a festival, it’s a community! Get to know our team, working year-round to help you discover great books by Canadian and Indigenous authors.

Sienna Tristen

director of programming

sienna@thewordonthestreet.ca

Sienna Tristen (they/them) is a poet, author, cultural worker, and perhaps secretly also a prunella plant! They love stories that feel nourishing and discussions that brighten the mind. Sienna’s had a hand in every WOTS department, but now calls Programming home.

Sienna sets the organization’s overall artistic vision and continues to shape the festival’s annual program.

Haley Richardson

director of communications

haley@thewordonthestreet.ca

Haley Richardson (she/they) is an artist and creative who moved to Canada from the US in 2019. She enjoys reading an endless amount of romance novels, crocheting, birdwatching, playing cozy video games, and cheering on her hometown Carolina Hurricanes.

Haley crafts the festival’s identity and digital strategy.

Sarah Mosher

director of Community engagement

sarah@thewordonthestreet.ca

Sarah Mosher (she/her) is a lover of artistic storytelling. She enjoys diving into book-to-film adaptations, romance novels and feminist texts. A newcomer to the CanLit world, Sarah is excited to expand her literary tastebuds!

Sarah spearheads fundraising initiatives and cultivates community engagement.

Linh Vu

marketplace coordinator

exhibitors@thewordonthestreet.ca

Linh Vu (she/her) is a fiction and non-fiction book lover of various genres, from teen novels to food science! She has been working as a Project Manager and Event Manager for 7 years and is excited to be a part of WOTS 2024 to help enrich Toronto’s arts and culture scenes.

Linh coordinates with exhibitors and vendors, and assists with marketplace production.