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Crook, Constance

Constance

Crook

Connie Brummel Crook taught English in Ontario’s public secondary schools for thirty years. She has two daughters and five grandchildren. Her first husband, Rev. Reginald Brown, died when their daughters were eleven months and two-and-a-half years old. She married…

Cross, L. D.

Ottawa

L. D.

Cross

Ottawa

L. D. Cross is an Ottawa non-fiction writer of business and lifestyle articles, op-ed features and books in the Amazing Stories series about unique aspects of Canadian history. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers and online in Canada and the United States…

Cross-Blanchard, Molly

Vancouver

Molly

Cross-Blanchard

Vancouver

Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis poet, writer, and editor born on Treaty 3 (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 (Prince Albert, SK), and currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, cka Vancouver. Molly has a BA…

Crowley, Kevin

Gabriola Island

Kevin

Crowley

Gabriola Island

Kevin Crowley is an award-winning journalist and the author of the satirical novel, Sir Middling U, and the one-act play, Waiting for the Rector, which was staged at the 2026 Gabriola Island One-Act Play Festival. Kevin spent nearly 20 years in journalism, writing for daily…

Crown, Bruce

Toronto

Bruce

Crown

Toronto

Bruce Crown grew up in Toronto's Corso Italia, around the famous St. Clair and Bathurst intersection where Italian and Portuguese cultures thrive. At North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and Nineteen Eighty-Four caught his interest…

Crozier, Lorna

Lorna

Crozier

Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Lorna Crozier has published poems in numerous magazines and anthologies and seven books. She's taught at various summer schools, including the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and the Banff School of Fine Arts; and has also been writer-…

Edmonton

Edmonton

Around 25 years ago, study of life in the 18th century captured N. R. Cruse's heart and imagination, and never let go. In her other life, she does way too many things, even infrequently acknowledging the existence of her loving husband and two children. She lives in Edmonton,…

Cummins, Kathleen

Toronto

Kathleen

Cummins

Toronto

Dr. Kathleen Cummins is a writer, filmmaker, and scholar. Her work bridges narrative craft, feminist storytelling, and decades of experience in film and media. Kathleen's non-fiction writing focuses on feminist cinemas and female authorship. Her screenwriting has received…

Cunningham, Isobel

Montreal

Isobel

Cunningham

Montreal

Isobel Cunningham lives in Montreal on unceded territory of the kanien’keha:ka ( Mohawk) nation. Born in Wales where she learned to “ tell the tale” she writes short stories and poetry that have been published online and in anthologies. In non- fiction, her articles have…

Cunningham, Francine

Cree, Metis, Settler

Curnes, Michael Scott

Victoria

Michael Scott

Curnes

Victoria

Michael Scott Curnes is a multi-award-winning Canadian author. He lives with his husband, Bernard in Victoria, British Columbia. Born in Coeur d'Alene and raised in Idaho and Montana, Curnes attended the universities of Idaho and New Mexico. In 1994 Curnes moved to Vancouver…

Curnoe, Lynda

Lynda

Curnoe

Lynda Curnoe is a writer fond of most forms of writing and reading, especially short stories and poems.

Currie, Robert

Moose Jaw

Robert

Currie

Moose Jaw

Robert Currie is a poet and fiction writer from Moose Jaw who taught at the Saskatchewan Summer School of th Arts and at The Sage Hill Writing Experience. The author of 13 books, he feels blessed to have served two terms as Saskatchewan Poet Laureate and to have delivered…

Currie, Sheilah

Sheilah

Currie

Sheilah Currie has had a varied career—first as an actor, then a school teacher, and now a children’s book author and early literacy advocate. She figures it won’t matter whether books are digitized or pulp’n’paperized if people can’t read. With her friend and writing partner,…

Brampton

Brampton

Susan Currie is an elementary teacher in Brampton, Ontario (22 years and counting). Before she entered the public school system, she earned a living as an accompanist, music director, choir director, dinner musician, leader of various music programs for children, and piano…

Curtis, Andrea

Toronto

Andrea

Curtis

Toronto

Andrea Curtis writes books for adults and young people that have been published around the world.Her most recent works are the nonfiction picture books The Story and Science of Hope, Loop de Loop, and the ThinkCities series of books about cities and sustainability, all from…

Cusmano, Domenic

Montreal

Domenic

Cusmano

Montreal

I am a writer, literary translator, and journalist. I am a co-founder and publisher of Accenti, an English-language cultural magazine, and of Longbridge Books, dedicated to the publication of works that celebrate cultural diversity. As a photojournalist for an…

Cusmano, Liana

Montreal

Liana

Cusmano

Montreal

Born and raised in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Liana Cusmano, aka Luca and BiCurious George, is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, filmmaker and arts educator. They are the 2018, 2019 and 2023 Montreal Slam Champion, runner up in the 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship,…

D'Alfonso, Antonio

MONTREAL

Antonio

D'Alfonso

MONTREAL

Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, Antonio D’Alfonso has published more than fifty books (including translations) and has made three feature films. He is the founder of Guernica Editions (1978) which he managed for thirty-three years…

da costa, paulo

Calgary

paulo

da costa

Calgary

Born in Angola, and raised in Portugal, paulo da costa is a writer, editor and translator living in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (Moh’kins’tsis / Calgary, Alberta). He is thrice the recipient of the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction (2024, 2023 and 2020), the…

Dagg, Jillian

Fort Erie

Jillian

Dagg

Fort Erie

Born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, Jillian came to live in Canada with her parents in her teens. In Winnipeg she discovered romance novels and began writing short romantic stories. After returning to England to live for a few years, where she began to write full…

Dagnino, Arianna

Vancouver

Arianna

Dagnino

Vancouver

I am the author of the post-apartheid novel The Afrikaner (Guernica Editions, April 2019), inspired by the five years I spent in the southern African region as an international reporter. The story is an on-the-road adventure that covers the terrain of love, race and…