Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer, educator and psychiatric survivor from Scarborough. She is a graduate of UTSC Creative Writing and the University of Guelph’s MFA, and is currently completing a SSHRC-supported EdD in Social Justice Education at the…

I am a kindergarten teacher from Hamilton, Ontario. In 2020 I self-published my first children's picture book, Paislee and the Talking Tree (illustrated by Hamilton artist Rae Bates and designed by Greg Smith of Blind Pig Press).  Paislee and the Talking Tree is sold…

Anne Simpson lives in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia), where she writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Four of her ten books have been Globe & Mail Best Books. She has been awarded the Griffin Prize for poetry and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for fiction.…

Michelle Sinclair worked for two decades on policy related to human rights. She has lived, studied or worked in Australia, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Switzerland and the United States. Her fiction, nonfiction, and translations from Spanish to English have appeared…

Sharon Singer is an independent scholar, researcher, and multi-disciplinary artist with a strong focus on creating awareness of historical injustices. Throughout her career, in roles as a journalist, lecturer, and editor, she has been a powerful positive force, contributing to a…

Margaret Singleton:       I was born in Toronto, Ontario, and at the age of seven and a half months was adopted away and grew up on farms in Soperton, Brockville and Athens, Ontario. My early education was in rural one room schools, until grade seven and…

Shanon Sinn is the author of The Haunting of Vancouver Island and several shorter works of fiction and nonfiction. He is also the editor and publisher of Black Cat - a collection of eerie tales set in BC's Pacific Northwest. His writing and illustrations often focus on ghost…

Pat is a Metis writer and author of eight books for children. Her new picture book  -  “Lights Along the River” -  was published by Orca Book Publishing in May 2024. Her new memoir, “Swiftly Flowing Waters” was also released by Plumleaf Press in spring 2024.…

Patricia Jane Skidmore was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and spent most of her childhood growing up in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam. For her, being a daughter of a child migrant was a shameful and often worrying experience. She didn’t feel that she belonged. There…

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the author of 20+ books for young people. Her scrupulously researched historical fiction and narrative non-fiction focuses on refugees and war from a young person’s perspective. Her books have won many honours, but her favourites are the provincial…

Traci Skuce is the author of the short story collection Hunger Moon, released in April 2020 by NeWest Press. Many of these stories first appeared in publications across North America, including Grain, New Ohio Review, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. Hunger…

Arthur Slade was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan. He is the author of thirty one novels for young readers including The Hunchback Assignments, which won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and Dust, winner of the Governor General’s Award for…

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…

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…

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…

First published story September 1972 in West Coast Review, which enriched me by $ 5. Books since include: Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra. Mansfield Press, 2012 Back Off, Assassin: New and Selected Poems. Mansfield Press, 2009 Leonel/Roque. Coteau Books, 1998 Translating Sleep…

Ron Smith is the author and editor of numerous books, including four books of poetry, the award-winning Elf the Eagle and The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke. An excerpt from the latter book was translated into eighteen languages by Reader’s Digest and published in over…