Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
Montreal
Montreal
Sivan Slapak is a Montreal-based writer. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Quarterly, Montreal Serai, carte blanche, and collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was selected as a finalist for the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, won…
Hamilton
Hamilton
I am a mother, daughter, sister, a palliative care doctor and now an author. I have always loved reading and would devour any books I could get my hands on as a teenager. When it came to school though I was a serious science nerd. As a grown-up even when I had almost no money I…
VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER
Hendrik Slegtenhorst has published fourteen books and over 140 works in established media.
His interests are music, literature, and the arts; the natural environment and the urban landscape; and, the realization of community identity, aspirations, and needs. His work experience…
Scarborough
Mississauga
Pain Court
Pain Court
Kara Smith, poet Ghobhainn, is an educator and poet living in the Western Hebrides. She is best known for the travel poetry series The Travelling Professor; The Artists of Crow County (Black Moss Press, 2017); memoir Next to the Ice (Mosaic Press, 2016); the text Teaching,…
RR#1 Carrying Place
RR#1 Carrying Place
John is the author of the books Cycling the U.S.A. and Cycling Canada. He has also written several cycling articles for newspapers and magazines. John has also contributed many travel articles as a result of his travel adventures, including doing a travel column for a group of…
Nanoose Bay
Toronto
Victoria
Markham
Markham
Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction.”
His latest work is the multi-award-winning YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The…
Kelowna
Victoria
Victoria
Steven Ross Smith, Banff Poet Laureate, 2018-21, loves music, walks on beaches, and is fascinated by moss. His work often juxtaposes disparate threads, as in his poetic seven-book series fluttertongue. He’s been effective too as a literary activist, on behalf of writers—speaking…
Vancouver and Montreal
Vancouver and Montreal
Naava Smolash teaches in the English department at Douglas College and holds a PhD in English Literature from SFU. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction appear in popular and academic publications including Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Canadian…
Toronto
Edmonton
Edmonton
Canadian writer, Gail Sidonie Šobat, has assumed any number of guises in her lifetime, including that of teacher, adjunct professor, writer in residence, woman-in-black, professional actor and singer, grounds keeper, flag girl, pari-mutuel seller and flower seller. She is the…
Montreal
Montreal
A novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, Mary Soderstrom's next book will be Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters, forthcoming from Dundurn Press in 2023. Her most recent book is Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future (University of…
