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Barton, Bob

Toronto,

Bob

Barton

Toronto,

Bob Barton was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1939 and was educated there. He attended McMaster University and, after a career in teaching and with the Ontario Ministry of Education, he became a professional storyteller in association with the Storytellers School of Toronto. He…

Barton, John

Victoria

John

Barton

Victoria

John Barton is a poet, essayist, editor and writing mentor. His twenty-eight books, chapbooks, and anthologies include For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems, Polari, Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay-Male Poets, The Malahat Review at Fifty, We Are Not…

Barwin, Gary

Hamilton

Gary

Barwin

Hamilton

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 29 books including Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy which won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and Bird Arsonist (with Tom Prime)…

Bass, Karen

Hamilton

Karen

Bass

Hamilton

Karen has always been an avid reader and for many years reading satisfied her love of story. That changed when she was hired to manage the local library and the desire to write took root. Since then her stories and articles have been published in local newspapers, magazines and…

Bassnett, Madeline

London

Madeline

Bassnett

London

Madeline Bassnett's first full-length collection, Under the Gamma Camera, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2019, and was longlisted for the Royal City Literary Arts Society Annual Fred Cogswell Award in 2020. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Pilgrimage (Baseline…

Basu, Arjun

Montreal

Arjun

Basu

Montreal

Arjun Basu has written two books. His first book, a collection of short stories, Squishy (DC Books, 2008) was shortlisted for the ReLit Award. His first novel, Waiting for the Man (2014, ECW) was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (and though an honour, being longlisted…

Bates, Judy

Judy

Bates

Judy Fong Bates is the author of China Dog and other Tales from a Chinese Laundry, a collection of short fiction, published by Sister Vision Press. Her short stories have been broadcast on CBC radio and published in Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, This Magazine and the Canadian…

Bator, Diane

Airdrie

Diane

Bator

Airdrie

Diane Bator writes mystery, fantasy, and working on some YA novels. She has been a part of many anthologies and is the host of Escape With a Writer, a blog she uses to promote fellow authors of all genres. Diane is also an editor and Book Coach, as well as mentor to many authors.

Batt, Sharon

Halifax

Sharon

Batt

Halifax

Sharon Batt is a writer and women's health activist currently living in Halifax. In the 1970s, she was one of the editors of the feminist magazine Branching Out and was a vice-president for three years of the Canadian Periodical Publishers' Association (now Magazines Canada).…

Battigelli, Rosanna

Sudbury

Rosanna

Battigelli

Sudbury

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli was born in Calabria, Italy and immigrated to Canada with her family at three years of age. She is an alumna of Laurentian University (Sudbury, ON, Canada) and Nipissing University (North Bay, ON, Canada). During her teaching career in Sudbury, she…

Bauer, Nancy

Nancy

Bauer

Nancy Bauer holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and immigrated to Fredericton in 1965. She was married to Bill Bauer, writer and retired professor, who died in 2010. Nancy was the publisher of 25 New Brunswick Chapbooks, founded the Maritime Writers' Workshop and was a…

Victoria

Joan Baxter is an award-winning author and journalist, international development researcher/writer, and anthropologist. Her 2017 book, "The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest," that delves into the suffering caused by the Pictou pulp mill in Nova Scotia and the enormous power…

Baxter, Jean Rae

Kingston

Jean Rae

Baxter

Kingston

Jean Rae Baxter (née Fox) was born in Toronto but grew up in Hamilton. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Toronto and a B.Ed degree from Queen’s. She is an ex-copywriter and ex-teacher. Married to a Queen’s University English professor, she lived for…

Beach, Kimmy

Kimmy

Beach

Kimmy Beach's fifth book, The Last Temptation of Bond (The University of Alberta Press, 2013), was chosen as one of the best five poetry books of the year on Quill&Quire's 2013 Readers' Poll. The book was longlisted for the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice Award, and was…

Toronto

Surrey

Surrey

Jeff Beamish is a fiction writer, former journalist and author of the new novel, No, You're Crazy. His previous novel, Sneaker Wave, was shortlisted in 2014 for a national fiction award in Canada. He has had short fiction published in four literary journals, The Nonconformist…

Beasley, David Richard

Simcoe

David Richard

Beasley

Simcoe

David Richard Beasley lives in Simcoe Ontario. Born Canadian he lived in Europe and Manhattan for 40 years, has a PhD in political economics, worked for years at the New York Public Research Libraries where he was the president of the union of library workers. He has written…

Beauchemin, Raymond

Hamilton

Raymond

Beauchemin

Hamilton

Raymond Beauchemin is the author of two traditionally published works of fiction, the novel "Everything I Own" (Toronto: Guernica 2011) and the novella collection "The Emptiest Quarter" (Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2023). He is a cookbook author ("Salut: The Quebec…

Beaulieu, Derek

Banff

Derek

Beaulieu

Banff

Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden’s Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published…

Becker, Helaine

Toronto

Helaine

Becker

Toronto

Helaine Becker is the bestselling author of more than 90 books for children and young adults. A Porcupine in a Pine Tree was the #1 Canadian National Bestseller and received the Libris Picture Book of the Year Award from the C.B.A; the sequel, Dashing through the Snow,…

Joliette

Joliette

Lea Beddia is a writer for young adults, a high school English teacher, storyteller and mom of three. Her debut novel, Take Off! from Rebel Mountain Press combines action, drama and humor to tell a story of Marisa, an aviation cadet with a dream of becoming a pilot. Take Off!…

Bedell, Sean Paul

Dartmouth

Sean Paul

Bedell

Dartmouth

While he has worked as a paramedic and as a captain with the fire service, Sean Paul Bedell has been writing and publishing for more than 30 years. He lives in Dartmouth with his wife Lisa, and Somewhere There’s Music is his first novel. Follow him on Twitter @…

Beeby, Dean

OTTAWA

Dean

Beeby

OTTAWA

Dean Beeby is an investigative journalist and author of five non-fiction books, including Murder in Renfrew County: The predator who left three women dead and the justice system that failed to stop him (Lorimer). Since 1983, he has worked for The Canadian Press and the CBC…