Member Directory
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Vancouver/Gibsons
Vancouver/Gibsons
Almost nothing makes me want to accidentally/on-purpose glue my hands together more than to be asked to write my biography, so instead I will simply say that I love to write, I love to read and I will try just about anything including unsticking my hands to do it. I live in…
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Ottawa
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Toronto
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Cobourg
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Pickering
Pickering
N.E. Rule attended Metropolitan Toronto University for both creative writing and business communications. Her writing portfolio includes software specs, marketing copy, and training materials. However, her passion is speculative fiction. It wasn't until the pandemic she had the…
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Toronto
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London
Toronto
Montreal
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North Cowichan
North Cowichan
Jay Ruzesky's most recent book is In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage. He was raised in the Okanagan Valley and now lives on Vancouver Island. He is the Book Reviews Editor and is on the poetry editorial board of the Malahat Review and teaches at Vancouver Island University.…
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Calgary
Millbrook
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Calgary
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Toronto
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Ottawa
Ottawa
An Ottawa-based writer, storyteller, and arts educator, Maria Saba was born and raised in Iran. She has published three books of nonfiction (in Farsi) and over a hundred articles, essays, interviews, and stories. "My First Friend", her short story published in Scoundrel Time,…
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London
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Kingston
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Toronto
Toronto
AHMAD SAIDULLAH's Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories was published to critical acclaim in Canada and India in 2008. It was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and longlisted for the Crossword Vodafone Book Award for global South Asian fiction in 2010. In…
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Ottawa
Ottawa
Sonia Saikaley was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada to a big Lebanese family. The daughter of a shopkeeper, she had access to all the treats she wanted. Her first book, The Lebanese Dishwasher, co-won the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. She has two poetry collections Turkish…
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Toronto
Toronto
Dr. Kathleen Saint-Onge is a teacher and independent researcher living in the GTA. She holds an M.Ed. (2011) and Ph.D. (2016) from York University, and she is interested in some of the intersects between psychoanalysis and language, in particular through the work of Freud and…