H. Leighton Dickson grew up in the wilds of the Canadian Shield, where her neighbours were wolves, moose, deer and lynx. She studied Zoology at the University of Guelph and worked in the Edinburgh Zoological Gardens in Scotland, where she was chased by lions, wrestled deaf…

Barbara Dickson is a sought-after professionally-trained public speaker, local historian, and author in both fiction and non-fiction. She has been entertaining and educating audiences for over twenty years. She lives in Scarborough, Ontario.   Diagnosed with multiple…

Rebecca Diem writes hopeful speculative fiction and poetry. Her work can be found on Reactor and Write Magazine, and she is the author of the indie steampunk series Tales of the Captain Duke. She is currently finishing her first full-length novel and working on a postpartum…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Heather Dixon is a writer with a deep passion for stories that explore the complexities of motherhood and family secrets, but she'll never say no to the charm of heartfelt romance. She is the author of three novels, including Burlington, Last Summer at the Lake House, and The…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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”, …

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…

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, …

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…

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…

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…

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.

Ceilidh Michelle is an author from rural Nova Scotia. Her first novel, Butterflies Zebras Moonbeams, published with Palimpsest Press, was shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction. Her second book, a work of nonfiction called Vagabond, was published by Douglas &…

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…