His most recent adult novel, The Mystery of Grace, is a love story, a ghost story, a supernatural mystery and, above all, a heart-wrenching tale of passion and faith. It has been nominated for two major Canadian book awards (the Sunburst and the Evergreen).

While most of de Lint's fiction has been written for adults, he's also penned several books for young people. His latest young adult novel, The Painted Boy, was released by Viking Books as their lead title in November 2010. Two books for middle-grade readers (as yet unscheduled) will be published by Little, Brown and Company. He is currently writing a young adult novel for Penguin Canada.

De Lint has won many awards and honours for his fiction, including the World Fantasy Award and the Canadian SF/Fantasy Award (the Aurora). Eight of his books appear on the Modern Library Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century poll, conducted by Random House and voted on by readers.

His non-fiction has included book reviews, critical essays, music reviews, opinion columns and entries to encyclopedias. He is the main book reviewer for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He's also been a judge for several prominent awards, including the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Bram Stoker Award.

De Lint has taught creative writing workshops in Canada and the United States, and served as Writer-in-residence for two public libraries in Ottawa.

A professional musician for many years, he writes original songs and performs with his wife, MaryAnn Harris. His main instruments are guitar, flute, fiddle, whistles and vocals, while MaryAnn's are mandolin, guitar, vocals and percussion.

In 2011, Charles released an album, titled Old Blue Truck, featuring ten original songs from folk-rock to psychobilly to heartbreaking ballads. Every song evokes a distinct reaction: a sense of the familiar, a touch of nostalgia, compassion or mystery. And always a greater appreciation for life.

For more information, please visit Charles de Lint's Website or visit his entry at ISFDB.

Elizabeth Hand
Author Guest of Honour
Elizabeth Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York, oldest of five children and twenty-four cousins in a close-knit family, Irish Catholic New Yorkers on her father's side, Texans and Oklahomans on her mother's. She decided to become a writer in 1962, when she was five years old, after seeing The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, where the dying Wilhelm Grimm (Laurence Harvey) is saved by the magical intervention of the fairytale characters he had written about.
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Tanya Huff
Special Guest
Tanya Huff moved to rural Ontario with her partner Fiona Patton and began writing science fiction and fantasy full-time—or as full-time as possible around the needs of nine cats and eighty acres of land. Her twenty-five books range from heroic fantasy (the Quarters books) through humour (the Keeper Chronicles) to military SF (the Torin Kerr Confederation series) and include Scholar of Decay a novel set in TSR's Ravenloft universe as well as four short story collections.
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