Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head, winner of the Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, and serpentine loop, nominated for the Souster Award. She is the editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living, a finalist for the Montaigne…

Maureen Garvie grew up in Kingston, Ontario and moved to New Zealand in 1971. Returning to Canada in 1983, she worked as a writer and editor for the Kingston Whig-Standard. She has taught writing and editing at Queen's University and is an editor for the Journal of British…

Kate currently lives, and writes, on a small farm in the Cowichan Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island, with her amazing husband, two incredible sons, an adorable dog, several barn cats who don’t earn their keep, a gaggle of geese, and some decidedly ungrateful chickens … all of…

Greg Gatenby was born in Toronto in 1950. He received a B.A. in English from York University in 1972. From 1973-1975, he was an editor at McClelland & Stewart. Since then, he has been serving as the artistic director of the Harbourfront Reading Series and the International…

Michael was born and raised in Alberta, where he  received a B.A. in Archaeology in 1970. He later earned an M.A. in History Museum Studies from  the State University of New York in 1988. He was curator of collections for Klondike National Historic Sites in Dawson City, Yukon,…

Toronto children's author, Kathleen Gauer, has published HIGH IN THE SKY (2015), FOR NO REASON (2017), THE WISH CARVERS (2019), BATHTIME FUN! (2021), as well as poetry and magazine and newspaper articles.  Kathleen worked as a contributing associate editor for a Toronto…

Daniel Gawthrop was born in Nanaimo in 1963 and grew up there. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Victoria and a Journalism diploma at the University of King’s College, Halifax, he began his career as a newspaper reporter for the Hope Standard and Vancouver…

Veronica Gaylie is a writer and teacher from Vancouver.  Her literary memoir Sword Dance: A Celtic Poem was published by Exile in 2015.  Veronica's creative non-fiction essays and poems have appeared in many journals, including Geist, Grain, Room and The Poetry Review, and she’s…

Gary Geddes was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1940. He completed a doctorate at University of Toronto and has taught at various institutions in Canada and abroad, including Western Washington University, where he was Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture. Geddes has written…

As part of a nomadic navy family, Leslie Gentile grew up singing and telling stories in the back seat of the car with her siblings, so it was only natural for her to become a musician and author.  Leslie performed with two siblings as The White Sisters, and now performs with two…

Mia Herrera’s short stories, feature articles, and reviews have appeared in various online and print publications like CG Monthly, Live in Limbo, Side Street Review, Hart House Review, and TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 7. She graduated from the University of Toronto with an…

Tara Gereaux (Métis-Settler) has published a novel, Saltus (Nightwood Editions, 2021) and a teen novella, Size of a Fist (Thistledown Press, 2015), both of which have been nominated for several Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her writing’s been shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Novel…

Ben Berman Ghan (he/him) is the author of the novel The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024), as well as the collection What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest books 2019), and the novella Visitation Seeds (845 Press 2020). His prose, poetry, and essays have…

Shree Ghatage was born in Bombay, India and moved to Canada in 1983. Her collection of short stories set in Bombay, India and entitled Awake When All the World is Asleep was published in 1997. Currently she is working on a novel.

Natale Ghent is an award winning journalist and author. A graduate ofthe University of Guelph, Natale also studied writing and communicationsat the University of San Diego, California.

Carole Giangrande was born and raised in the New York city area. She came to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. She's worked as a broadcast journalist for CBC Radio, a Writer-in-Residence and as a teacher of journalism and political science, and she's given readings…

Anne Giardini, O.C., O.B.C., K.C. Anne's first novel, The Sad Truth About Happiness, was published by HarperCollins/Fourth Estate in Canada, the UK, the US and Australia in spring 2005. It was short-listed for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2006 and for an Audie…

Lakshmi Gill is a poet, artist, and educator who has published extensively in Canadian and world literature. She was one of the two women poets (along with Dorothy Livesay) who founded the League of Canadian Poets in 1966. She attended Western Washington University (First Prize…