Nicole Bea is a short story author and novelist who primarily focuses on middle grade and teen fiction. An avid storyteller since childhood, she has honed her skills through a variety of educational programs including management, sociology, legal studies, and cultural diversity in the workplace, most recently engaging in coursework about communication for technologists. In addition to fiction writing, Nicole is also a technical writer for a global manufacturer of CPAP masks, machines, and other products that manage sleep-disordered breathing. When she isn’t busy updating her manuscript portfolio or catching up on her To Be Read pile, Nicole can usually be found gardening, horseback riding, or pursuing her new hobby of learning to cook. She and her husband share their home in Eastern Canada with a collection of multi-coloured cats and a lifetime's worth of books. The Stars from Me to You is her first middle grade novel with Trap Door Books and is now read in elementary schools across Nova Scotia.

Bob Bent, author of Spy on Ice, was born in Amherst, lived most of his life in and around Lawrencetown, and now lives in Middleton and Cottage Cove, Nova Scotia. He has had stories published in The Nashwaak Review, All Rights Reserved, and Feathertale Review; a piece of nonfiction in The Barnstormer, and a series of travel/running articles in Run Nova Scotia Raconteur. A collection of whimsical stories for children and grandmothers, Have Yourself a Silly Little Christmas, illustrated by Andrea Wood, was published in 2013. A collection of serious short stories, The Last Time I Saw Alice was published in March 2018. He also has the largest collection of Russian Classical Music in Middleton.

Rhian Calcott was born in Charlottetown, PEI and moved with her family to Berwick, Nova Scotia when she was seven. She has a degree in English literature from Mount Allison University and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University. She practiced law for ten years with the Nova Scotia Legal Aid, leaving to stay at home and raise her four children. Her short stories have appeared in The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction (2007) and A Maritime Christmas (2008). Nevermore Press published her first novel, The Last Goin’ Off, in the fall of 2020.

Born and raised in downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, James Case practiced architecture for forty years. After working professionally throughout Atlantic Canada and for extended periods in Australia, Quebec, Korea and Norway, he formed Sheppard Case Architects in 2000 and LAT49 Architecture Inc. in 2014. James’ projects have been featured in Canadian Architect and Domus, with notable recent works that include the award-winning Fortis Place in St. John’s and the internationally acclaimed Fogo Island Inn at Joe Batts Arm. James sold his architectural practice and retired in 2018. He has since returned to his first love—writing. His first novel, Ananias, was published by Nevermore Press in the fall of 2020.

Jan Coates lives in Wolfville, NS with her husband and faithful Golden Irish, Charlie. She has two adult children. Jan is the author of numerous children’s and YA books, and she loves to visit schools to give readings. She has worked as a teacher and designer, and is learning illustration. Say What You Mean is Jan’s first book with Nevermore Press and was released August 2019.

Hannah Godfrey/hannah_g (she/her) is an interdisciplinary writer & artist. Her practice has included live art, video, soundscapes, drawing, poster making, and text, and is informed by queer echo-locating, contemporary art, and recollection. She has exhibited, performed, and given readings in Canada, the US, and Europe. Kindness, mischief, and social justice underpin her practice. She has been awarded funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Arts Council England. Her first book, Critical Fictions, a collection of interdisciplinary writing about five queer, Canadian artists, was published by ARP in 2023. Nevermore Press published Oubliette in the Fall of 2023. Hannah is currently the curator of Galerie Buhler Gallery in St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory.

Anne C. Kelly is the English Language Learning Coordinator at the Bedford Library and also works with Learn English Nova Scotia, completing English language assessments. She previously worked for over twenty years providing English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) support to newcomers to Canada. She is married with four grown children, has been writing since Grade Four, and is passionate about books and Canadian history. Jacques’ Escape is her first novel, and was shortlisted for the 2020–21 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award.

Garry Leeson is a writer/auctioneer/farmer from the Annapolis Valley. His work is primarily creative nonfiction and memoir. He has been published in various periodicals, both in Canada and internationally. His stories have been showcased on CBC Radio. In 2014, Garry received funding from Arts Nova Scotia to develop a collection of short stories about small farming in rural Nova Scotia. He was long-listed for CBC Writes Creative Nonfiction in 2012. He has participated in various writing workshops through Acadia and has been part of a weekly writing circle in the valley for several years. Garry lives in the community of Harmony with his wife Andrea and a menagerie of animals. His book, The Dome Chronicles, was released in December 2019 and won the 2021 Margaret & John Savage first book (nonfiction) Atlantic Book Award.

Richard Levangie is an award-winning journalist with degrees in science, journalism, and an MFA in creative nonfiction. His work has appeared in enRoute, Endless Vacation, The Globe & Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and more than a dozen magazines. His middle-grade adventure, Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve, won the Atlantic writing competition for unpublished manuscripts and was released by Nevermore Press in the fall of 2020. A former karate instructor, Richard is an associate technician at ResMed, a world leader in medical breathing devices. He lives in Halifax.

Rosalie Osmond is a native of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, but spent a large part of her adult life in England. Educated at Acadia University, Bryn Mawr College, and Cambridge University, she has taught English literature at the university level in Canada and the U.K. She has published three works of nonfiction. Broken Symmetry is her second novel, and was shortlisted in 2020 for the Jim Connors Dartmouth (fiction) Atlantic Book Award. Her debut novel, Waldenstein had previously been shortlisted for the same award, and in 2019 Rosalie was the recipient of the Rita Joe poetry prize. She is married with three children and six grandchildren, all of whom love to come and visit in the summer.

Ian Roy is a writer, screen printer, and educator. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The Antigonish Review, Arc, Long Con Magazine and The New Quarterly. He is the author of four books, including the short-story collection, People Leaving, which was short-listed for both the City of Ottawa Book Award and the Upper Canada Writers’ Craft Award. His other books include a collaborative art book (The Longest Winter), a poetry collection (Red Bird), and another short-story collection entitled Meticulous, Sad, and Lonely. The Girl Who Could Fly, published by Nevermore’s Trap Door Books imprint in spring 2021, is Ian’s first novel for young readers. He lives in Ottawa.

Heidi Tattrie Rushton has been a freelance reporter, social media manager, international recruiter, and preschool teacher. She also, like her Pet Tales protagonist, has experience working at an animal shelter, was a kid-activist through her writing, and rides the roller coaster of life with anxiety. She calls Fall River, Nova Scotia, home, along with her husband, two children, and a furry Havanese sidekick. In 2021, Pet Tales fetched the WFNS Joyce Barkhouse Writing Prize and will be released by NP’s imprint, Trap Door Books, in spring 2024.

R.E. Stansfield is a transplanted prairie person now living “upshore” in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia. Born and bred in Regina, Saskatchewan, Ron enjoyed a distinguished three decade-long career in the international affairs field before retiring to the Maritimes, including postings to the Canadian embassies in South Korea and The Netherlands, and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Austria. Gleefully freed finally from the constraints of government bureaucratese, he takes his inspiration now from the open ocean which he swears looks just like the waving wheat fields back home in "Sasky." He writes in all genres and is currently dividing his time among a number of new literary adventures. Twenty-One Ways to Die in Saskatchewan is his first book.

Martha Vowles was born and brought up in rural Québec, along the Ottawa River, surrounded and nourished by Québecois and English culture and language and has lived in Atlantic Canada since the late 1970s. She served as a hospital-based speech-language pathologist for over thirty years. Now in semi-retirement, she finds inspiration for her writing in nature, people and their relationships, and the commonplace events of day-to-day life. She lives beside the St. John River in Grand Bay-Westfield, New Brunswick with her husband, William Toner, and a menagerie of rescued dogs and cats. Senior Management: Parenting My Parents is her first book.