Love Is The Only Option: Romance & Radical Optimism

Speakers for this event

• Kristen Ciccarelli

  Kristen Ciccarelli

  Kristen Ciccarelli is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Crimson Moth duology, A Dark Forgetting, and the Iskari series. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages. Before writing stories for a living, Kristen dropped out of college and worked as a baker, a potter, and a bookseller. She currently resides in the Niagara region of Ontario with her husband and daughter.

  URL www.kristenciccarelli.com

• Lily Chu

  Lily Chu

  Lily Chu loves ordering the second-cheapest wine, wearing perfume all the time, and staying up far too late with a good book. Four of her books have been released as Audible Originals, performed by Phillipa Soo. Lily’s best-selling stories have spent multiple weeks at number one in Audible Top Plus Listens, and have been named in Best of the Year lists. Her books have been recommended in the New York Times, and her rom-com debut, The Stand-In, was named Target’s Book Club Pick for May as well as an Amazon Book of the Month and Apple Best Books of May.

  URL https://lilychuauthor.com

• Maureen Halushak

  Maureen Halushak

  Moderator

  Maureen Halushak is the editor-in-chief of Chatelaine. Outside of work she’s an avid runner, writer, reader and dog walker.

  Moderator

• Rebecca Fisseha

  Rebecca Fisseha

  Rebecca Fisseha is an Ethiopian-Canadian writer based in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Daughters of Silence, as well as short stories, creative non-fiction, and personal essays that appear in various publications, including the anthology Addis Ababa Noir and Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language. Rebecca is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers, the Vancouver Film School, and an alumnus of the TIFF Writers’ Studio.

  URL https://rebeccafisseha.com