Wherever You Go, There You Are: Journey Stories

Speakers for this event

• Amal El-Mohtar

  Amal El-Mohtar

  Amal El-Mohtar writes fiction, poetry, and criticism. She won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for her short story “Seasons of Glass and Iron” and again for her novella This Is How You Lose the Time War, written with Max Gladstone, which also won the BSFA and Aurora awards, became a New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into over ten languages. Her reviews and articles have appeared in the NYT and on NPR Books. Her solo debut, The River Has Roots, is out now from Tordotcom Publishing. She lives in Ottawa, Canada. Online at: amalelmohtar.com.

  URL https://amalelmohtar.com

• Ryad Assani-Razaki

  Ryad Assani-Razaki

  Ryad Assani-Razaki (born November 4, 1981) is a Beninese-Canadian writer. His debut short story collection Deux cercles won the Trillium Book Award for French-language fiction in 2010, and his novel La main d’Iman won the Prix Robert-Cliche in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction in 2012.Born in Cotonou, Benin, Assani-Razaki first moved to North America in 1999, to study computer science at the University of North Carolina. After graduating in 2002, he struggled to find a job until registering for a master’s in computer science at the Université de Montréal in 2004. He wrote his first short story in 2006, after witnessing an Asian man struggle to order food in a fast food restaurant because of his difficulties with the language. Deux cercles was published in 2009.

• Sara Flemington

  Sara Flemington

  Sara Flemington is the author of the novels Egg Island and R.I.P. Scoot. Her work has appeared in Eclectica, subTerrain, The Feathertale Review, The Humber Literary Review, and Paper Darts, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Guelph at Humber MFA, and lives in Toronto.

  URL https://saraflemington.wordpress.com

• Terese Mason Pierre

  Terese Mason Pierre

  Terese Mason Pierre (she/her) is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Walrus, ROOM, Brick, Uncanny, and Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, among others. She is one of ten winners of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize, and was named a Writers’ Trust Rising Star. Terese is an editor at Augur Magazine, a Canadian speculative literature journal, and co-Director of AugurCon, Augur’s speculative literature conference. She is the author of Myth, a poetry collection, and the editor of As the Earth Dreams, an anthology of Black Canadian speculative fiction. Terese lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

  URL https://teresemasonpierre.com/