Douglas & McIntyre

Scott McIntyre | Publisher

D&M founding partner and current Chairman, CEO and Publisher of Douglas & McIntyre was born and raised in Vancouver, 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 Publishers.

He has been actively involved in government relations and industry association work for almost 30 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 time as Chair, of the Cultural Industries Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade (SAGIT). His current community involvements include the positions of Vice-Chair of the British Columbia Achievement Foundation; Co-Chair of the Coalition for Cultural Diversity; and Trustee of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.

In 1996, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Simon Fraser University; in 1997, he was awarded the Order of Canada.

Chris Labonté | Associate Publisher, Acquiring Editor, Fiction

Chris Labonté, BA, MFA, has worked for Douglas McIntyre since 2005, first as Executive Assistant to Scott McIntyre then, as of January 2009, as Assistant Publisher & Acquiring Editor, 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).