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Sam Chaiton is a Toronto author and playwright, a dancer and long-time social justice advocate. His first book, co-authored with Terry Swinton, was the international non-fiction bestseller Lazarus and the Hurricane, which became a basis for the Norman Jewison film The Hurricane …
Toronto
Sam
Chaiton
Charlene Challenger is a writer and graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Acting Program. Her first novel, the young adult fantasy The Voices In Between, was published in 2014. Her second novel, The Myth In Distance, was published in 2016. Her work is featured in Stone…
Charlene
Challenger
Ottawa
Lyse Champagne's short story collection, The Light That Remains, was shortlisted for the 2017 Danuta Gleed LIterary Award for best first short story collection. The stories are set in Turkey, Ukraine, China, France, Cambodia and Rwanda and chronicle the lives of six families…
Ottawa
Lyse
Champagne
Gillian Chan was born in England and came to Canada in 1990. A graduate of the University of East Anglia, she taught in high schools for ten years and wrote in secret. Her move to Canada gave her the impetus to write full-time.
Gillian
Chan
Edmonton
Marty Chan writes books for kids and plays for adults. His hit comedy play Mom, Dad, I'm Living with a White Girl toured across Canada and finished with an Off Broadway production in 2004. His middle-grade novels have won over reluctant readers. The Mystery of the Frozen Brains…
Edmonton
Marty
Chan
Vancouver
Su Chang is a fiction writer with a debut novel (The Immortal Woman) forthcoming from House of Anansi in early 2025. An earlier draft was long-listed for the Maters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest, and a semifinalist at SheWritesPress' STEP Prize. It has received excellent early…
Su
Chang
Ottawa
Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent whose multi-genre writing has appeared in Augur, The Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, Grain, third coast magazine, Vallum Contemporary, Watch Your Head and more. The co-founder of Riverbed…
Ottawa
Ellen
Chang-Richardson
Toronto
Susan Chapman has been a teacher-librarian and a primary teacher in Toronto and in Markham, Ontario. She has also taught teacher-librarians in East Africa, and worked for a summer in the library in Harrods Dept. Store in London, England. She was inspired to write TOO MUCH NOISE…
Toronto
Susan
Chapman
Toronto, ON
Veronika Martenova Charles, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was a popular teenage pop recording artist in eastern Europe before settling in Toronto and becoming an author and illustrator of children's books. Since 1991, she has been writing and illustrating children's books full…
Toronto, ON
Veronika
Charles
Vancouver
Norma Charles was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba and moved to the west coast as a young child. After graduating from the University of British Columbia, she taught school for several years, then "retired" to have four children. It was then that she began to write books for…
Vancouver
Norma
Charles
TOFINO
Karen Charleson is a mother, a grandmother, a writer, and an educator. Her first novel Through Different Eyes was published by Signature Editions in 2017. Karen is a member, through marriage, of the Hesquiaht First Nation and the House of Kinquashtakumtlth. She lives in…
TOFINO
Karen
Charleson
Vancouver
J.G. Chayko is a writer from Vancouver B.C. who has published poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.
She is a contributing writer to three anthologies and has several short works in print and online. Her work has appeared in Event Magazine, Canadian Stories, Hastings…
Vancouver
J.G.
Chayko
Pickering
Sylv Chiang is a middle grade teacher by day and a writer of middle grade fiction by night.
Pickering
Sylv
Chiang
Toronto
Lucian Childs is a fiction writer whose debut novel, Dreaming Home, is set to be published by Biblioasis Spring 2023. He was a Peter Taylor Fellow for Nancy Zafris at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, a recipient of the Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award and a…
Toronto
Lucian
Childs
Winnipeg
Nancy Chislett is an avid traveler, having visited almost 50 countries on six continents. She also plays classical music on piano and composes a little jazz. Career-wise, she has worked as a high school teacher and as a university administrator of an international student…
Winnipeg
Nancy
Chislett
Toronto
Originally from South Korea, Ann Yu-Kyung Choi is a Toronto-based author and educator. Her novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, was a Toronto Book Awards finalist and One of CBC Books 12 Best Canadian Debut Novels of 2016. Her published essays explore issues around cultural and…
Toronto
Ann Yu-Kyung
Choi
Vancouver
Kevin Chong is the author of seven books, most recently the novel The Double Life of Benson Yu. He was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, where he presently lives with his family. He is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He reads and…
Vancouver
Kevin
Chong
