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Beiser, Vince

Vancouver

Vince

Beiser

Vancouver

Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author based in Vancouver. His first book, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization was a finalist for a PEN/E.O. Wilson Award and a California Book Award. You can learn the…

Calgary

Calgary

Wade Bell's website is www.wadebell.ca His newest story collection is Tracie's Revenge. Governor General's Award winning writer Robert Hilles said of it: "In this stunning book, Wade Bell writes on the level of Raymond Carver and Roberto Bolano. He knows…

Bell, John

Lunenburg

John

Bell

Lunenburg

John Bell is a Lunenburg-based author and editor specializing in Canadian history, literature, and popular culture. A former editor of the poetry magazine Arc, John has contributed to The Literary Review of Canada, Event, This Magazine, Canadian Literature, and many other…

Bellehumeur-Allatt, Tanya

Belusic, Doris

Victoria

Doris

Belusic

Victoria

Doris Belusic is a poet, nonfiction writer, and editor of The Blind Canadian magazine. She received her BA in writing from UVic in 2019 as a blind, mature student. Her biggest thrill was having her first book published, I Am Blind (Beech Street Books, 2024), a children's grade 3…

Toronto

Toronto

Award-winning freelance writer and book author Lisa Bendall grew up near Ottawa and was educated at the University of Toronto. Her articles have appeared in many of Canada's top magazines such as Reader’s Digest and Zoomer. Lisa often writes on health and family topics, and has…

Burlington

Toronto

Toronto

Gail Benick is a writer and educator.. Her debut novel, The Girl Who Was Born That Way, was published by Inanna Publications and Education in 2015. Benick earned ann M. Phil. from the City University of New York and an M.Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in…

Bennett, Carolyn

Brockville/Toronto

Carolyn

Bennett

Brockville/Toronto

Writer and comedian Carolyn Bennett cut her teeth performing at Yuk Yuks and hasn't stopped bleeding since. Selected TV credits include This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC COMICS, Chilly Beach and The NHL Awards. Produced radio plays include Mixed Media, …

Bennett, Jo Anne

Jo Anne

Bennett

Jo Anne Williams Bennett was born in Brooklyn, New York. She studied in New York and at Cambridge, in the U.K. An anthropologist among other things, she has spent substantial amounts of time in Ghana, West Africa. She also lived for many years in the U.K. She works as an…

Benson, Eugene

Eugene

Benson

Eugene Benson is a Canadian citizen born in Northern Ireland in 1928. He obtained an M.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Guelph. He married Renate Niklaus in 1968 and…

Benstead, Steven

Winnipeg

Steven

Benstead

Winnipeg

Steven Benstead has published two novels,The Wooing of a Lady (1978) and Driving Blind (1998). His short fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Dalhousie Review, The Journey Prize: Stories 25, Grain Magazine, Prairie Fire, and The Antigonish Review. He also wrote the text…

Bentley, Dorothy

Foothills

Dorothy

Bentley

Foothills

Dorothy Bentley is published in articles, cartoons, columns, interviews, short stories, poetry, and novels. Her picture book, Summer North Coming, (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) was released in 2019, and her YA novel, Escape from the Wildfire, (Lorimer Kids…

Bentley, B.R.

West Vancouver

B.R.

Bentley

West Vancouver

The author has lived in Bermuda, Canada and South Africa while enjoying a global career as a banker and corporate executive. An enthusiastic sailor, scuba diver, and occasional art collector, he draws on the experiences from his travels, business, and recreational pursuits to…

Benvie, Rob

Berg, Sharon

P.O.Box 128, Charlottetown, NL, A0C 1L0

Sharon

Berg

P.O.Box 128, Charlottetown, NL, A0C 1L0

Sharon Berg released two books in September 2019 and two more in September 2020. She writes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and articles.Sharon released her debut collection of short fiction called 'Naming the Shadows' (Porcupines Quill. 2019). Next, was a cross-genre…

Abbotsford

Abbotsford

Nikki Bergstresser is an educator, author and speaker. When not in the classroom or writing at her desk, Nikki can often be found hiking forest trails and mountains of coastal British Columbia. Some of her best story ideas have grown from time spent in nature. Nikki loves…

Berklund-Pagé, Kathy

Nepean

Berry, Julie

7816 Fairview Road, St. Thomas N5P 3S8

Julie

Berry

7816 Fairview Road, St. Thomas N5P 3S8

Julie Berry has published three collections of poetry – worn thresholds (Brick) 1995, reprinted 2006, the walnut-cracking machine (Buschek) 2010, and most recently, the chapbook, I am, &c. The Gilbert White Poems (Baseline Press) 2015. Poems have appeared in Arc Poetry…

Berryman, Tony

Invermere

Tony

Berryman

Invermere

Tony Berryman writes mysteries and thrillers, two fingers at a time. His first massage therapy thriller, The Night Nurse, was published in 2020. The second, On Borrowed Time, will hit the stands in 2025. Tony also co-writes adventure stories under the name Trigger Jones with…

Bertin, Johanna

Smithfield

Johanna

Bertin

Smithfield

Johanna Bertin is a freelance writer who makes her home in Smithfield, New Brunswick. She is the author of two non-fiction books focusing on unusual events in Canadian history, a narrative history of Sable Island, a children’s biography of Sir Charles Tupper, a story in an …

Berwick, Dennison

Toronto

Dennison

Berwick

Toronto

Travelling and writing have always been Dennison Berwick's passions. "There's too much of the world to see, and too many fascinating people to meet, to stay in one place for too long," says the sailor, storyteller and nomad. Born in Yorkshire, England, he emigrated to Canada in…