Charles Demers

Charles Demers is an author, comedian, voice actor, and playwright. He is a frequently returning star on CBC Radio’s smash-hit comedy The Debaters, with a weekly listening audience of 750,000. His collection of essays, Vancouver Special (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009), was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize. He is also the author of The Horrors (2015), Property Values (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018) and the first two books in the Doctor Annick Boudreau Mystery series, Primary Obsessions and Noonday Dark (2020 and 2022), for which he draws upon his own long-time experience with cognitive behavioural therapy. Demers lives in Vancouver, BC.