Authors

GLORIA ANN WESLEY holds the distinction of being Nova Scotia’s first published Black poet and is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Africville. She is a trained teacher and has taught at all grade levels. Gloria resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

ARLENE CHAN, a third-generation Chinese Canadian, is a retired librarian and author of non-fiction works for children, young adults, and adults on Chinese festivals and the Chinese in Canada – including Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century. An avid dragon boat racer and gold-medalist on the Canadian National Women’s Dragon Boat Team, she lives, writes, and paddles in Toronto.

RONA ARATO is a former teacher and an award-winning author of over fifteen books for children and young adults, including fiction, non-fiction, and historical fiction including Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis. Rona is a frequent speaker at schools and community organizations. Rona lives in Toronto, Ontario.

JEAN SMITH CAVALLUZZO is a Toronto writer interested in social justice issues and the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War. She has degrees in sociology and social work as well as a diploma in journalism. Her articles have appeared in Chatelaine, the Toronto Star, Eye-talian Magazine, and the Globe and Mail. She has also written for CBC radio. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

MASAKO FUKAWA lived in Steveston, BC until the forced evacuation in 1942. She is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War. Masako has worked as a teacher and principal. She lives in Burnaby, BC.

PAMELA HICKMAN is the author of over forty non-fiction books for children. She co-authored the first book in this series, Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War and continued to work on the series with other titles such as The Komagata Maru and Canada’s Anti-Indian Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century. She lives in Canning, Nova Scotia.

KEN SETTERINGTON is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The LGBT Purge, Mom and Mum are Getting Married and Branded by the Pink Triangle, winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature and a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association. He is the former Children and Youth Advocate for the Toronto Public Library and received the Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada in 2017 for his work bringing children and literature together. He lives with his partner in Toronto.

MELANIE FLORENCE is a proud Cree and a full-time writer currently based in Toronto. She is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools. As a freelance journalist, Melanie’s byline has appeared in magazines including Dance International, Writer, Parents Canada, and Urban Male Magazine.