Ella Burakowski was born to Holocaust survivors, Shoshana Gold and Fishl Burakowski, who met after the war in Foehrenwald, a displaced person's camp in Germany.  Together they smuggled on an Aliyah Bet ship to make a new life for themselves in Israel. Ella and her older…

Aileen Burford-Mason is a Canadian biochemist, immunologist, and author. Born in the UK she grew up in Ireland. After completing a B.Sc. in biology and biochemistry at University College Dublin, she later completed a PhD in immunology at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK…

Dr. Kayt Lackie (pen name Kayt Burgess) was born in Manitouwadge, Ontario and grew up in Elliot Lake. She studied classical music at the University of Western Ontario, publishing at Humber College, and creative writing at the University of Auckland and Bath Spa University. Her…

“Sapha is like a young Wolfgang Pauli, in every laboratory he went, there was a little explosion.” Sapha Burnell teethed on images of the Berlin Wall falling down. The product of Vancouver’s multiculturalism, Sapha steeped in divergent cultures, religious experiences and…

Finnian Burnett is a writer whose work explores the intersections of the human body, mental health, and gender identity. They are a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts grant, a finalist in the 2023 CBC nonfiction prize, and a 2024 Pushcart nominee. Their work appears…

Bradd Burningham grew up in Essex, Ontario, and has lived in Windsor, Cambridge, Toronto, Ottawa, London, Saskatoon, and Sackville (New Brunswick). He studied at the University of Toronto, the University of Windsor (B.A, M.A), and the University of Western Ontario (M.L.S.). He…

Kevin Burns is an Ottawa-based writer, editor, and researcher with a focus on broad cultural and social issues. He has seen some 300 books make their way into print in the commercial and academic publishing worlds. He has an extensive background in publishing, having developed…

Varda Burstyn's career as a writer of non-fiction and as an independent scholar began in the early 1980s, after which her work appeared in numerous magazines, including Saturday Night and Mother Jones, in documentary films, in multiple series for CBC's national documentary…

Brian completed a B.A. (Sociology) at Queen's University, an M.A. (Criminology) at the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D (Sociology) at the University of British Columbia. He had a full-time appointment for 30 years in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University and was…

A resident of Vancouver, Julie Burtinshaw is an award-winning author of seven novels for young adults.  A graduate of SFU’s Writers Studio, Julie has served as a judge for the BC Book Awards, Red Cedar Awards, Illinois Women's Press Association Communications. Hangman: The…

My debut novel Ivy’s Tree was published by Thistledown Press in September 2020.I completed a fourth draft of Millicent, the fictionalised account of my great-great-grandmother’s life in London’s East End in the 1850s. My work with this manuscript earned me a Letter of…

Catherine Bush's latest work is the forthcoming story collection, Skin (2025). She is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), a Globe and Mail Best Book and Hamilton Reads 2021 Selection; the Canada Reads long-listed Accusation (2013); the Trillium Award short-…

Aaron Bushkowsky A prolific writer, Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver-based playwright, film-writer, poet, novelist, and educator. His plays have been produced across Canada and have received 9 Jessie Richardson Theatre (Vancouver Theatre awards) nominations over the last 14 years…

Pam Bustin was born in Regina SK and raised in a host of small towns across the prairies.  She currently lives MOSTLY in Chapleau Ontario with a lovely man and 10,001 books - though she still tends to wander. Pam’s play Saddles in the Rain had its world premiere at 25th…

Born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, she has spent the last thirty years on a ranch in the southwest near the Saskatchewan-Montana border. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan, but didn't begin writing until she was 38, publishing her first book at 44. She is married to…

Alan D. Butcher was born in Vancouver, B.C. and has been writing all his life. "I wasn't much good at anything else--and my former employers will agree with me on that." He has written advertising copy, worked in the Canadian arctic, and wrote and produced the Chase Almanac for…

Dr. Jenna Butler (she/her) is an award-winning poet, essayist, editor, and teacher. She is the author of three books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and the…

Michelle Butler Hallett is a disabled person and history nerd who writes fiction about violence, evil, love, and grace. Novels: Constant Nobody, winner of the 2022 Thomas Raddall Award for Atlantic Fiction, This Marlowe, deluded your sailors, Sky Waves, and …