Lynn writes poems, essays, reviews, and freelance pieces, also poems and stories for children. Born in Moncton, N.B., her first paying job was working in her parent’s independent bookstore, The Bookmark. She graduated with a B.A. in English (Honours) from the University of King’…

Adriana A. Davies was born in Italy and grew up in Canada and has BA and MA degrees from the University of Alberta and a PhD from the University of London, England. She is a historian, poet, curator and specialist in fine and decorative arts. She authored two volumes of the…

Lauren B. Davis’s most recent works are EVEN SO, published by Dundurn Press in 2021, and named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by the Quill & Quire and the Winnipeg Free Press; THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET, called “timely and important” by the Toronto Star,  and “…

Nicola Davison is a writer and photographer. Her first book, In the Wake (Vagrant Press) won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Dartmouth Book Award. Her second novel, Decoding Dot Grey (Nimbus Publishing) won the 2023 Ann Connor…

Award winning journalist and bestselling author of Her Name Was Margaret. 

The Wager is Jimy Dawn’s 2nd book of poetry. His first book, Sun and the Son was, in part, a requiem for his departed son, Morgen. Both books are published by Night Forest Press. Dawn also contributes to a music project as a writer and vocalist, with Shaun Day-Woods, known as…

Michèle Dawson Haber is a Canadian writer, potter, and union advocate. She lives in Toronto and is working on a memoir about family secrets, identity, and step-adoption. Her writing has appeared in Oldster Magazine, The Brevity Blog, Salon, Manifest Station, and in the Modern…

Giulia De Gasperi was born in Italy and has lived in Canada, Scotland, and the USA. Her home is currently Dublin, Ireland. She reads almost exclusively Canadian literature, in particular, books by hyphenated writers and she collects picture books, also mainly by Canadian…

Deborah E. de Lange is a professor of sustainable international business. After many years in industry, Dr. de Lange obtained her PhD at the University of Toronto and published her PhD dissertation as a book entitled, Power and Influence: The Embeddedness of Nations. She has a…

Author of seven literary books (creative non-fiction and poetry) and co-editor of five academic texts (including Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada: Beyond the Social and Geopoetics in Practice), Dr. Sarah de Leeuw is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work …

Sadiqa de Meijer's poetry, essays and short stories have been published in Brick, Poetry Magazine, the Walrus, TNQ, and other journals, as well as in several anthologies, including The Next Wave (Palimpsest Press), Villanelles (Everyman's Library), and How To Expect What You're…

Paula de Ronde was born on the fabled island of Jamaica.  She completed her Master’s degree at the University of Toronto to become a librarian who would work with children, teenagers and adults for almost 30 years. In the process, she rose in the ranks to become a leader at…

Anthony De Sa grew up in Toronto’s Portuguese community. His short fiction has been published in several literary magazines. Anthony's first book, Barnacle Love, was critically acclaimed and became a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2009 Toronto Book Award.…

Born and raised on the wrong side of the tracks, teacher, author and screenwriter Sara de Waard uses her past to create present and future pieces that comfort, inspire and entertain a wide range of audiences. She hopes to always find ways to give back to her heritage,…

Leesa Dean is a graduate of the University of Guelph's Creative Writing MFA program and teaches Creative Writing at Selkirk College. Her previous publications include Waiting for the Cyclone, nominated for the 2017 Trillium and ReLit Awards, and the poetry chapbook The Desert of…

Nitin Deckha is the author of a collection of short stories, Shopping for Sabzi (2008) and has recently self-published his novel, The Real Estate of Things (2015). His fiction has been published in magazines, edited collections, and chapbooks and he has read his work across…

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ann Decter moved to Toronto to study, and after sojourns elsewhere--New York City, rural Nova Scotia--settled into Toronto's vibrant women's writing and publishing community. She has a B.A. in history and an M.Ed. in philosophy and over a…