Theresa Power is a seasoned librarian with almost two decades of experience in accessible library collections. She is passionate about ensuring equitable access to literature and specializes in curating materials in multiple formats, including DAISY, braille, printbraille, and e-text, tailored to diverse audiences across all genres and age groups. She currently works at CELA, the Centre for Equitable Library Access, as the Content & Access Librarian. Outside of her work at CELA, Theresa is actively involved in evaluating Canadian literature, serving as Co-Chair of the Best Bets Committee and reading for the Evergreen Award and One eRead Canada.

Steph is is the Information, Resources & Connections Leader at Niagara Falls Public Library and a member of the OPLA Readers' Advisory Committee. She leads the library's horror book club and is dedicated to making scary stories accessible to readers of all tastes. When she's not recommending Stephen Graham Jones to unsuspecting customers, you can find her curled up with a book and at least one cat nestled on her lap.

Steph is is the Information, Resources & Connections Leader at Niagara Falls Public Library and a member of the OPLA Readers' Advisory Committee. She leads the library's horror book club and is dedicated to making scary stories accessible to readers of all tastes. When she's not recommending Stephen Graham Jones to unsuspecting customers, you can find her curled up with a book and at least one cat nestled on her lap.

Michaela is Chair of the OPLA Readers’ Advisory Committee and a library supervisor for four branches of the Bruce County Public Library. She also works as a Tutor for the EXCEL Readers’ Advisory course through the Ontario Library Service. When she’s not reading, she’s writing.

Jessica Cammer is a member of the OPLA Readers’ Advisory Committee and a Collections Lead at Regina Public Library, where she oversees the children’s, teen and graphic novel collections, and conducts training sessions on booktalking, readers’ advisory and merchandising. She reads a lot of romance and fantasy, loves graphic novels, and is trying her best to become an audiobook listener.

Michaela is Chair of the OPLA Readers’ Advisory Committee and a library supervisor for four branches of the Bruce County Public Library. She also works as a Tutor for the EXCEL Readers’ Advisory course through the Ontario Library Service. When she’s not reading, she’s writing.

KYO MACLEAR is an essayist, editor, novelist and children’s author. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages, published in over twenty-five countries, and garnered nominations from the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and the National Magazine Awards. Her nonfiction books include the hybrid memoir Birds Art Life (2017), a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and winner of the Trillium Book Award, and Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets (2023), winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.

She holds a doctorate in Environmental Humanities and teaches writing at the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA and Humber School for Writers. She was the recipient of the 2023 Vicky Metcalf Award for Young People for her body of work and served as the 2026 Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence at University of Toronto Her picture books include Noodles on a Bicycle, which was named a Caldecott and Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, and, alongside illustrator Julie Morstad, It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book; Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli; and Julia, Child, a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist. Her most recent book is A Door Is To Open, illustrated by Julie Morstad. Kyo lives in Toronto, Ontario.