Imani Erriu is the author of the romance fantasy series Heavenly Bodies. She is a graduate from the Manchester Metropolitan University where she received a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. She spent most of her childhood in the forests of the English countryside, which definitely gifted her an overactive imagination. When she isn't crying over her own fictional characters or daydreaming up her next plot twist, she can be found eating pasta and watching "The Office" on repeat.

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.

Sarah is a Senior Librarian at the Mississauga Library. She is passionate about Readers’ Advisory and is a member of both the OLA Readers' Advisory Committee and the Mississauga Library’s Digital Readers' Advisory Committee. Sarah loves connecting readers with their next great read and she spearheaded Mississauga Library’s Book Buzz, a book newsletter, in order to do so. When Sarah is not at work, you can find her re-reading her favourite paranormal romances or the latest thriller.

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 the Kincardine and Tiverton 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.

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.

Born and raised in London, ON, it was there that Dan’s relationship with comics began, as he tagged along with his older brother to the long since defunct Bid Time Return Comics. An interest in manga and anime followed in high school, which really took off when he headed off to Wilfrid Laurier University for his undergrad. After getting his History degree, Dan pursued a Masters of Library and Information Science program at UWO.

Dan joined Library Bound in 2004. After working in cataloguing for the first ten years, Dan took on management of graphic novel ARPs, due to his long history of reading them. Initially a one-day-a-week job, it has quickly grown to the point that Dan now works as LBI’s resident graphic novel selector full time.

Internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. While her debut, TIME AFTER TIME, was a rom-com, she transitioned to the dark side thereafter. Her suspense novels include THE REVENGE LIST, ONLY ONE SURVIVES (Toronto Star Top-20, and Globe & Mail Top-100 book of 2024), and A KILLER MOTIVE, which is her 10th novel. Her work has been optioned for the screen. It’s rumored Hannah Mary still has a softer side because she also writes holiday romantic comedies as Holly Cassidy, the second of which was THE CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN. Hannah Mary lives in Oakville, Ontario, Canada with her husband and three sons.

Michaela is Chair of the OPLA Readers' Advisory Committee and a library supervisor for the Kincardine and Tiverton 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.

Lillian is currently a librarian at the Mississauga Library.  She serves on the Digital Reader Advisocry committe at the Mississauga Library.  She is a co-chair of the Silver Birch Fiction Committee and has recently  joined the OLA Reader's Advisory committee. Lillian loves talking about books from all genres, and formats and for all ages.  Outside of work Lillian usually has 3 or 4 books on the go and can't wait to tell you about them. 

Matthew Murray 🦇 is a Data Librarian at the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship at University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. He’s also co-host of Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast and editor of the zines Catalogues & Cardigans: A Library RPG Zine and Two-Fisted Library Stories. His research interests include non-traditional scholarship and developing better ways to share and support research data. His published work includes the co-authored book chapter “What About Crowdfunded Comics?” which was published by the Association of College and Research Libraries in the collection “Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library.”

Anna Ferri got her start in libraries through acquisitions and worked in collections, reference and readers' advisory services, and adult programming in public libraries in Alaska and British Columbia for many years. She is now an Evidence Synthesis Librarian at Colorado State University, but remains fascinated by how and why we pick our reading materials.

Meghan has worked in both libraries and archives and reads for knowledge and pleasure.