Author of My Father’s Son (May 2023, LivenBooks)

Up until the age of eleven, Mudah’s life was interrupted by major acts of violence. First the Rwandan genocide and the 1997 Tanzanian forceful repatriation of all Rwandan refugees, an exodus that led to hundreds of refugee deaths. He did not have a formal education until 2001, when his surviving family settled in Malawi. He squeezed 12 years of education into 8 years and graduated in 2009 among the top ten best students in the nation. He received best science student award and a scholarship to the University of Toronto (UofT). He studied Economics and International Relations at UofT and completed a 4 year program in 3 years with distinction. He went on to do a 2 year economics program at McGill University in just a year. Naturally, upon completion of his education, he became a mailman and served in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve.

Author of Blackberry (September 2023, LivenBooks)

Stateless in the UK until age seventeen, activist and artist Radha Menon emigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1995 where her singing and acting performance career abruptly ended, and her writing career began. Her plays, which have been produced at theatre festivals in Canada, the US, UK and India, include Blackberry, Ganga’s Ganja, Rukmini’s Gold, Rise of the Prickly Pear, The Circus & The Washing Machine. Red Beti Theatre (RBT), Hamilton’s first feminist IBPOC theatre company was founded by Menon in 2011. Menon earned an MFA in Creative Writing (UoG) in 2018. Her writing has garnered many awards globally

Author of Heart of Africa (July 2023, LivenBooks)

Gilmore volunteered with the Kinsmen African Medical Relief during the Ethiopian famine in the late 1980’s and worked subsequently, as their Field Director. For a twelve-year period, he led projects in integrated rural development in Africa and in 2001 was awarded the Louis Perinbam Award for Excellence in International Development. Bernie has continued his grassroots work in Africa with an elementary school in Ethiopia, the Panafric International Academy, and with St. Kizita’s Church in rural Uganda. Bernie has documented his work in Africa in his book.