Cynthia Macdonald
	Publishing Panel: Moderator

Cynthia Macdonald is a Toronto-based journalist and literary critic. She is a regular fiction reviewer for the Globe and Mail, and writes frequently about the arts for a variety of national publications. She is the former co-host of TVO's Imprint, and has worked as an interviewer and commentator for CBC radio and television, as well as Newsworld and the Knowledge Network. Her novel Alms was published by Penguin Canada in 2003, and her short fiction has appeared in several journals.

Cynthia Macdonald was the Moderator of the Publishing Panel at the Ontario Writers' Conference 2010.