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Born in 1923, northern British Columbia. Bomber pilot, WWII. BA, 1948, UBC; MFA, 1950, University of Iowa. Fourteen years with the CBC in Vancouver as producer, station manager, and director of radio, BC region. Twenty-four years with the Department of Creative Writing at UBC,…
Robert
Harlow
Hamilton
Liz Harmer is Strange Loops (2023) and The Amateurs (2018), both released with Knopf Canada. The Amateurs was shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in 2019. Also in 2019, she was the runner-up in the The Image/Mitchell Prize for a suite of poems. In 2018, her story…
Hamilton
Liz
Harmer
Kelowna
A self-professed “senior nomad” (she says some would suggest “crazy person”), Canadian writer Sue Harper spent 18 back-to-back winters in Kelowna, British Columbia and her adopted hometown, Wanaka, New Zealand, traveling as much as possible in between. Now she's back in the…
Kelowna
Sue
Harper
Montreal
It was that special year: 1967 when the city of Montreal exploded onto the world’s stage and hosted Expo ‘67. My high school graduation from Westover School happened at that same time. My parents and I drove from Connecticut to Montreal stopping along the way at the admissions…
Montreal
Mari Hill
Harpur
Lasqueti Island
Sheila is the author of Voices for the Islands, Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea, published by Heritage House July, 2024. It has been on the BC bestseller list all summer. She was co-author and co-editor of the award winning, Islands in the Salish Sea,…
Lasqueti Island
Sheila
Harrington
Toronto
Regina
Carla Harris (they/she) is a disabled queer writer, performer and interdisciplinary artist from Treaty 4 territory, living in Regina Saskatchewan. They have performed in Verses Festival in Vancouver (2016), the Saskatoon Poetic Arts Festival (2018), and featured on their home…
Regina
Carla
Harris
Lethbridge
Jane Harris is a Canadian author, poet, and essayist with a strong background in journalism. Her published essays, books, and articles turn complex research into engaging scenes and easily understood messages.
Finding Home in the Promised Land, a personal history of…
Lethbridge
Jane
Harris
Toronto
Dr. Carolyn Harris is a historian, author and royal commentator based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She currently teaches history at the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies. She the author of Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada: Democracy, Law, and Human Rights (…
Toronto
Carolyn
Harris
Toronto
After a career in science and business, I returned to my childhood love of writing. As an avid reader of crime fiction, I naturally chose this genre. Like many new writers, I had my share of rejections as well as wonderful writing teachers and encouragement. My breakthrough came…
Toronto
Madeleine
Harris-Callway
Lethbridge
Trevor W. Harrison is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. He was formerly Director of Parkland Institute (2011-2021), an Alberta-wide research organization, of which he was also a founding member. He was the recipient of the University of…
Lethbridge
Trevor
Harrison
YORK
Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann is an editor and writer. Her work reflects her roots as a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian with German ancestry and explores meaningful coincidences, cultural memories and identity. She is the author of a children’s book, My Father’s Nose and lives…
YORK
Suzanne
Hartmann
Victoria
Ella Harvey (formerly Elaine) is a retired nurse with a B.Sc. in Nursing from the University of Victoria. Her diverse career and adventurous spirit have taken her to five continents with experiences in Asia and Africa marking her worldview. She presently lives in beautiful…
Victoria
Ella
Harvey
Toronto
Ken is the author of a collection of short stories (If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right) and a memoir (A Passionate Engagement). The story collection won the Violet Quill Award for Best New Gay Fiction at the Lambda Literary Festival. The Italian translation of the…
Toronto
Ken
Harvey
Toronto
Carol Harvey Steski (she/her) grew up in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg), Canada. Her debut poetry collection is rump + flank (NeWest Press, 2021, Crow Said Poetry series). Her poems have been published in the poetry anthology Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology and…
Toronto
Carol
Harvey Steski
Toronto
Markus Harwood-Jones (he/they) is a proudly queer and trans space-case who has been writing since he can remember. Markus specializes in super sweet, super gay stories, ideal for readers young and old alike. He lives in downtown Toronto with his husband, their plantonic co-…
Toronto
Markus
Harwood-Jones
Delta
Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She is also a fiction editor at House of Gamut, and a staff writer at psychopomp.com. She was born and grew up in Sweden, and debuted as a writer there. Currently, she’s located just outside…
Delta
Maria
Haskins
Margaret Hastings-James is a writer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She began writing in a small Inuit community in Northern Quebec . She moved to Paris in 1994 and lived there for 12 years, studying under British author, Julian Gloag. She also did many work shops on script writing and…
Margaret
Hastings-James
Halifax
Luke Hathaway is a trans poet, librettist, and performer who lives in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, and teaches full time at Saint Mary’s University. His mythopoeic word-worlds have given rise to new musical and/or theatrical works by composers Colin Labadie, Benton Roark, Zachary…
Halifax
Luke
Hathaway
Toronto
Beatriz Hausner has published several poetry collections, including The Wardrobe Mistress (2003), Sew Him Up (2010), Enter the Raccoon (2012), Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020) and She Who Lies Above (2023), as well as many limited edition chapbooks. Her books have been…
Toronto
Beatriz
Hausner
Campbell River
Wendy Hawkin is an author/publisher with Blue Haven Press. As W. L. Hawkin, she publishes the Hollystone Mysteries, a mystery/thriller/urban fantasy series that features a coven of Vancouver witches who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. As a genre…
Campbell River
Wendy
Hawkin
Pennfield
A life-long lover of horror, Vanessa wrote her first story when she was in grade five. It was titled Mutilated and warranted a trip to the school guidance counsellor. With over a dozen publications under her belt, Vanessa is not only a proud mom, but a bestselling author. She…
Pennfield
Vanessa
Hawkins
London
Barbara Haworth-Attard was born in Kitchener, Ontario and now lives in London, Ontario with her husband. Her fondest memories of childhood are of her weekly Saturday visits to the library, a tradition carried on to date. While always possessed with the writing bug, it was not…
London
Barbara
Haworth-Attard
Penelope Hawtrey grew up in southern Ontario and moved to eastern Ontario to attend University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She began writing shortly after graduation, then stopped, and started again a decade later. After she completed her first manuscript,…
Penelope
Hawtrey
