Catherine Hernandez is the author of the children’s book M is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book (Flamingo Rampant) and the novel Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press). This issue, she speaks to cover author David Chariady about his second book, Brother, published by McClelland & Stewart (p. 12).
Montreal writer Linda Leith, who founded Blue Metropolis Foundation in 1997, created Linda Leith Publishing / Linda Leith Éditions in 2011. She is the author, most recently, of Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis (Signature) and the introduction to Mavis Gallant’s play What Is to Be Done? (LLP). Leith surveys the current state of English-language publishing in Quebec, starting on page 16.
Andrea Bennett is the editor-in-chief of Maisonneuve magazine and a National Magazine Award–winning writer whose first book of poetry, Canoodlers, came out with Nightwood Editions in 2014. This issue, she writes about Montreal bookstore Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (p. 18).