Human-shaped, monkey-loving, robot-fighting, pirate-hearted, storytelling junkie, Mark is co-host of our podcast Re-Creative and an award-winning author of satire and speculative fiction. He writes in the genres of science fiction, humorous SF and dark comedy. When not working on the next novel, he pens short stories, squibs and other drivel. (Some pure, and some quite tainted with meaning.)

He is also a prof at Western University, at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, where he teaches bemused students how to create digital products that won’t become self-aware and destroy all humanity.

He does all of these thing while being Canadian and owning cats.

Find his books anywhere you can get them online, or check out his own website.

Matt Watts started his career as a stand-up comedian and writer in television and film; most recently working as a writer on The Kids in the Hall for Amazon Prime. He co-wrote and co-starred in the critically acclaimed 12-episode CBC series Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays, which earned him WGC and CSA Award Nominations for writing in 2011. A second season, titled Michael: Every Day, aired on CBC in January 2017.

At CBC Radio, he created three series: In Steve, The First (2005), a slacker wakes up to find he's slept through the apocalypse in this dark four-part comedy. Steve, The Second (2006) details the story of the son of the original Steve. Canadia: 2056 (2007) centres on Max Anderson, the American liaison on board the only Canadian spaceship in an otherwise American space fleet headed toward a galactic war.

In 2015, Matt’s short film Portal to Hell!!!, starring the late, great, Rowdy Roddy Piper, premiered at TIFF and went on to win awards from festivals around the globe.

Huey and the Wasteland, Matt's first novel, sees him revisiting his favourite themes: anxiety and the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

When not writing, Tanah Haney divides her time between playing the Celtic harp, teaching music, gardening and cat wrangling. She is a published poet and is co-author of Where the World Bleeds Through with her husband, photographer and digital artist Mark A. Harrison. The character of Aiden in Tanah’s debut novel, A Peculiar Symmetry, was inspired by Tanah’s own experience with neurodiversity. Late diagnosed with ADHD at age 50 but neurodivergent from day one, Tanah is determined to be a more vocal champion of everyone who has ever felt different, and for the free expression of same in a diverse, inclusive, and compassionate society. Tanah lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with her husband Mark and a small but vocal menagerie.

Michael Antman is the author of the novel Cherry Whip, Everything Solid Has a Shadow, and the recently completed novel A Distant Place of Slaughter. He is a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing. He is also a theatre critic, urban photographer and poet, and formerly the Global Head of Marketing for a Fortune 100 company.

Retired teacher Tom Mahoney grew up on a small family farm in Johnville, New Brunswick.

Drawing on his own experiences and those of his family — his father was also a gifted storyteller — Tom's humorous and touching tales, spanning decades, brim with colour and authenticity.

Tom received a Cultural Achievement Award from the City of Summerside, PEI for The Deer Yard & Other Stories. One of the stories within, Toby the Dog, was featured on Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe on CBC Radio.

Joe Mahoney’s first novel, A Time and a Place, was published on October 1st 2017 by Five Rivers Press. His memoir, a behind-the-scenes glimpse of working at CBC Radio, Adventures in the Radio Trade, was published on August 1st 2023 by Donovan Street Press.

Joe has worked as a story editor on multiple radio, television and film projects, and bakes a mean lasagna.

He is a member of SF Canada, the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Writers Union of Canada, and is best friends with a Sheltie.

Jenn DeLagran (MBA) is a business and financial analyst with over twenty-four years experience in some of Canada's largest companies. Currently employed by one of Canada’s top financial institutions, Jenn’s experience in business casing and financial modeling is a key asset to the future growth of Donovan Street Press Inc. She has a passion for writing and helping fellow authors achieve their publishing dreams.

Ira Nayman was the editor of Amazing Stories magazine. Yes, thatAmazing Stories. In addition to the magazine, he edited several volumes of Amazing Selects, working with such writers as Alan Steele, David Gerrold and John Stith. The Dance, Ira's first anthology as editor, was published in 2024. He is also the author of eight published novels (most recently The Multiverse Refugees Trilogy: Good Intentions, Bad Actors and The Ugly Truth). He’d had 40 short stories published in various magazines and anthologies. Les Pages aux Folles, Ira's web page of social and political satire, has been updated weekly for the past 22 years. 

Bibliofic Designs is a one-stop shop! And has worked with bestselling authors providing services such as eye-catching book covers, one-of-a-kind interior design layouts, and promotional and marketing materials, as well as fun and creatively designed merchandise for the reader, writer, and all-around book lover.

Keira Mahoney is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Radio and Television Arts, Media Production program. Keira loves animals, and can be spotted on Toronto streets petting any and every dog and cat she comes across. She and her furry spaniel son Oz enjoy eating yummy food, going for long walks, and hanging out at the local dog parks.

Erin, who enjoys drawing in her spare time, illustrated the covers for both her grandfather’s book The Deer Yard & Other Stories and her father’s short story collection Other Times & Places.

She lives and works in Ontario.

Arleane Ralph is a copy editor and proofreader with mad skills when it comes to seeing where people’s writing style has let them down, where their word choice is dubious, and where they’ve contradicted themselves or relied too heavily on the editorial advice of a well-intentioned friend.

She is an indexer of legal textbooks, which is not as dull as it sounds.

To her own surprise, Arleane is also a published and university-trained palaeographer, having transcribed all manner of documents from 16th century diaries to 20th century birth records and letters to the speck of a label on the back of a possible Shakespeare portrait.

Arleane lives and works in Ontario. She is a camping enthusiast, sings awesome second alto, follows Premier League football, and takes terrible family selfies. She has an uncanny knack for finding lost objects and never hesitates to sing out loud in the car.

Robert Runté, PhD, is Senior Editor with EssentialEdits.ca and SFeditor.ca. He was, for nearly a decade, Senior Editor at Five Rivers Publishing, where he acquired and edited over 30 books, primarily speculative fiction. A retired professor, he has won three Aurora Awards (Canadian SF&F) for his literary criticism; wrote the Canadian speculative fiction entry for the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada; published the NCF Guide to Canadian Science Fiction; and given over a hundred presentations and workshops at writers’ conferences. He was a founding board member of SFCanada and WordBridge.

He currently reviews for the Ottawa Review of Books and his own short fiction has been published over 90 times in a variety of magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. He is currently working on the novel he started in 1971, but no one (other than Joe Mahoney) expects him to actually finish.

Prior to launching Donovan Street Press Inc., Joe Mahoney worked full-time for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He did that for thirty-five years, which now seems like the blink of an eye.

There, Joe spent a decade making radio plays, working with some of the finest actors, directors, and writers in Canada.

In 2007, Joe left production to join the CBC management team, where he managed broadcast maintenance teams and, eventually, the eastern real estate portfolio. He spent his final year as both Operations Manager (Acting) for Nova Scotia and Regional Property Manager, both of which he loved. He retired from the CBC in 2023 and now focuses his attention on his family, growing Donovan Street Press, and trying (finally!) to get his black belt in Karate.