Scott McIntyre | Publisher

D&M Publishers founding partner, current Chairman, and Publisher of the Douglas & McIntyre imprint was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Following graduation from the University of British Columbia, he entered publishing at McClelland & Stewart in Toronto in 1967, returning to Vancouver early in 1970 to join Jim Douglas and co-found what has become D&M.

He has been actively involved in government relations and industry association work over 40 years, including leading book publishing trade missions to Japan and the Netherlands. For 20 years he was involved with Canada’s international trade negotiations as a member, including a term as Chair, of the Cultural Industries Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade (SAGIT). During this time he was influential in the development and implementation of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity.

His current community positions include Vice-Chairman of the Board of the British Columbia Achievement Foundation; member of the Aboriginal Educational Council of the Ontario College of Art; and member of the Advisory Council of the Walrus Foundation. He has also served as a Trustee of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Co-President of the Canadian Coalition for Cultural Diversity; and Board member for the Writer’s Trust of Canada, the UBC School of Journalism, the Bill Reid Foundation, Ecotrust Canada, the Association of Canadian Publishers, and LOGOS: the Journal of the World Book Community (London, England).

In 1996, he received an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from Simon Fraser University. The following year, he became a member of the Order of Canada. In 2002, he was awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal.

Trena White | Associate Publisher, Acquiring Editor, Non-Fiction

Before joining Douglas & McIntyre in 2010, Trena spent six years in Toronto as a non-fiction editor at McClelland & Stewart. She has worked with emerging and established non-fiction writers such as Samantha Nutt, Allan Gotlieb, Paul Watson, Andrew Potter, Joshua Knelman and Michelle Shephard and in a wide range of subject areas, including memoir, current affairs, politics and history. Trena has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Women’s Studies, and she completed her Master of Publishing at Simon Fraser University in 2004.

Chris Labonté | Acquiring Editor, Fiction

Chris Labonté, BA, MFA, has worked for Douglas McIntyre since 2005, first as Executive Assistant to Scott McIntyre then, in January 2009, as Assistant Publisher & Acquiring Editor, Fiction. He is now focussing exclusively on his role as Acquiring Editor for Fiction. He first joined the company in 2001 as Assistant to the Publisher for sister imprint, Greystone Books. Prior to that he was Fiction Editor for PRISMinternational, where he published the likes of Bill Gaston, Matt Cohen, Mark Anthony Jarman and Adam Lewis Schroeder.

Labonté completed his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia in 2001, where he worked with Saeko Usukawa, one of Canada’s finest editors (Jade Peony, Disappearing Moon Café). He has published widely, including stories in Oberon Press’s Coming Attractions ’02, and the prize-winning story in Pagitica in Toronto’s inaugural literary competition.

Labonté has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia and Langara College (Vancouver).