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PAMELA DILLON is a writer and poet. A graduate of the University of Toronto’s creative writing program, Pamela’s short story We Come, and We Go and her novel excerpt As Good as Any Other won the top ten placements in the 2013 and 2015 Penguin Random House of Canada Student Award…
Victoria
Victoria
JoAnn Dionne holds an Honours BA in English from McGill University and an MFA in Writing from the University of Victoria. Her first book, Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China, was a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and short-listed for the George…
Montreal
Montreal
Christopher DiRaddo is the author of the novels The Family Way (2021), shortlisted for the F.G Bressani Literary Prize, and The Geography of Pluto (2014). His essays and short stories have appeared in First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far), Here & Now: An Anthology of Queer…
often in transit
often in transit
Author, journalist, and photographer Hadani Ditmars has reported from Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq, often examining the human costs of sectarian strife as well as cultural resistance to war, occupation and embargo.Currently, Hadani is a co-editor at the New…
Toronto
Toronto
Sean Dixon grew up in a family of 12, including his 8 siblings, parents and a grandmother, through several Ontario towns, predisposing him to tell stories about groups of people thrown together in common cause. His debut novel, The Girls Who Saw Everything, was named one of…
West Vancouver
West Vancouver
Sandra Djwa, FRSC, CM., is a writer, critic and cultural biographer. A Newfoundlander, she completed a PhD at the University of British Columbia. She taught Canadian literature in the English department at Simon Fraser University from 1968 to 2005 when she retired as J.S.…
Vancouver
Pat
Vancouver
Pat Dobie is a writer, editor, and teacher who grew up on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples (Vancouver, BC). She's a two-time winner of the International 3-Day Novel Contest, a past finalist for the Historical Novel Society’s New Novel Award, and…
Sturgeon Falls
Sturgeon Falls
  As a Canadian author and artist, my involvement in the arts spans five decades. I have served on art councils, boards and juries, and I have been the Director/Curator of a public gallery in Ontario. My artwork and artist’s books have been exhibited in Canada and…
Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill
Jillian delights in discovering stories in the everyday. She’s gathered tales through various unofficial and official roles. Jillian has lived in Alberta and Quebec and now lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with her incredible husband, their two inspiring children and a cuddly…
Etobicoke
Etobicoke
Farzana Doctor is a Tkaronto-based author, activist and a psychotherapist. She has written four critically acclaimed novels and a poetry collection. Her latest novel, Seven, which Ms. Magazine described as “fully feminist and ambitiously bold”, was chosen for multiple 2020…
Vernon
Vernon
Michelle Doege holds an MFA in Creative Writing in poetry and mixed genre from Augsburg College (2016), Minneapolis. Her debut book of poems, Root of Light, explores borders and migrations, but also, ancestors, sexuality, crossing internal borders to live our truest, bold selves…
Town of the Blue Mountains
Town of the Blue Mountains
Sean Patrick Dolan is a retired teacher and guidance counsellor. Since 2000, he has written professionally for the education community. He has worked on textbook teams at the Oxford University Press, has written columns and features for Canadian School Counsellor magazine, and…
Hamilton
Hamilton
Alexander C. Dolinin is a Canadian writer of Russian origin. He writes both in English and in Russian.He was born and raised in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in the former Soviet Union, where he earned an MA in Iranian philology from the State University of Leningrad. After…
Ottawa
AJ
Ottawa
AJ Dolman’s (they/she) first full-length poetry collection is Crazy / Mad (Gordon Hill Press, spring 2024). Their short fiction collection Lost Enough was released by Morning Rain Publishing in 2017. Dolman's poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals,…
Cambridge
Cambridge
Anne T. Donahue is a writer and person whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Marie-Claire, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, The Cut, Vulture, and others. Her first book, Nobody Cares, was published with ECW in September 2018.
White Rock
White Rock
A published academic in psychology and a university instructor, Patricia's pioneering work in Morita Therapy, a Japanese Psychotherapy, has been published internationally. Later she turned her focus to fiction-writing. Drawing from the rich cultural mix of the East Coast, her…
Kingston
Sue
Kingston
Sue Donaldson (aka Susan Cliffe) is an author, animal advocate, and research associate in the Department of Philosophy, Queen's University. She was born in Ottawa in 1962, and has lived most of her life in Eastern Ontario. She studied at Queen’s (B.A. Hon), University of Toronto…
Gerald Donaldson was born in Almonte, Ontario, and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art. He worked in advertising and freelance journalism and has for many years covered Formula One (F1) racing internationally, as a TV commentator, journalist and author. He has written…
London
London
Born in Dublin in 1969, I am an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and playright, living in Canada with my family. Set in Dublin during the Great Flu pandemic in 1918 (and written before COVID-19), my novel The Pull of the Stars (2020) is about a nurse midwife, a doctor and…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Born in Montreal, Rita Donovan completed an undergraduate degree at Concordia University (Loyola) in Montreal, and a Master's degree at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She has lived in Montreal, Kitchener, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Germany. She has also taught writing courses…
Richard W. Doornink was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1958, moved to Yorkton, Saskatchewan  with his family in 1966, and lived there until 1969 when they moved to Toronto, Ontario. Richard received his Bachelor of Arts from York University, with a major in film and video, and a…
St Catharines
St Catharines
Dylan Doose is the author of the ongoing dark fantasy series, Sword & Sorcery. He also pens the new weird western horror series, Red Harvest. Dylan's debut novel, Fire and Sword, received an honorable mention in Library Journal’s Indie Ebook Awards and was a Shelf Unbound…
Edmonton (Amiskwacywaskihegan)
Edmonton (Amiskwacywaskihegan)
Candas Jane Dorsey was born and still resides in Edmonton, Alberta. She writes across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, main-stream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy. Dorsey has also written television and stage scripts, magazine…
Golden Lake
Ann
Golden Lake
For decades, Ann Douglas was Canada’s most trusted writer on all things parenting. Now she’s turning her attention to the glorious messiness that is midlife. Her most recent book -- Navigating The Messy Middle -- was published in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre in October 2022…
Summerland
Summerland
Angela Douglas is a Canadian author who lives in the Okanagan with her husband and kids. Her debut novel and psychological thriller, EVERY FALL, is being published by Rising Action Publishing in January 2025, and sophomore novel THE BONE TRAIL in June 2026. She is a member of…