KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
​Dr. Gerry Turcotte
Dr. Gerry Turcotte is President and Vice-Chancellor of St. Mary’s University, Calgary, and before this was Associate Provost and Executive Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, Australia.
He is the author and editor of 17 books including the novel Flying in Silence which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year in 2001 and Border Crossings: Words & Images, a mixed media text that published the photographs from his one-person photographic exhibition at a major Australian gallery, and the text of a performance for music and words which he performed live at the Sydney Opera House.
His publications include Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canadian and Australian Fiction and Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature & the Postcolonial Gothic, shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Award for Literary Criticism (co-edited with Cynthia Sugars). He has published widely in the area of post-colonial Gothic fiction in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
His most recent publication is The History of the Novel in English since 1950: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, published by Oxford University Press (OUP) and co-edited with C.A. Howells and Paul Sharrad.
He was awarded the Governor General’s Award for Canadian Studies in 2011 and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013.
Nalini Singh​
Nalini Singh is the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and international bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling, Guild Hunter, and Rock Kiss series.
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Born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand, she was first published in 2003. Her books have sold over seven million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty languages, including German, French, Japanese, and Turkish.
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Her most recent releases are: Ocean Light, Cherish Hard, and Archangel's Viper. Her next release is Archangel's Prophecy (coming October 2018).
Her website is: http://www.nalinisingh.com
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You can also find her on Twitter (@nalinisingh), Facebook (facebook.com/authornalinisingh), and Instagram (@authornalinisingh).
