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Kitchener
Markus Harwood-Jones (he/him) is an author, artist, and academic specializing in trans narratives, romantic fiction, and community storytelling. He has a doctorate in Gender Studies from Queen’s University. He has written multiple novels, including The Haunting of Adrian Yates (…
Kitchener
Markus
Harwood-Jones
Delta
Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She is also a senior columnist and non-fiction editor at Ruadán Books. She was born and grew up in Sweden, and debuted as a writer there. Currently, she’s located just outside Vancouver with two kids…
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
Victoria
Originally from the UK, Claire Hatcher-Smith now lives surrounded by sea on Vancouver Island, with her husband, their teenage son and a Korean rescue dog. As well as writing, Claire is a speech and language therapist and runs groups for autistic tweens and teens, focusing on…
Victoria
Claire
Hatcher-Smith
Halifax
Luke Hathaway is an internationally-acclaimed poet, lyricist/librettist, and theatre-maker. He is a founding and core member of ANIMA and of the Fractal Arts Collective. Of Hathaway’s 2022 book The Affirmations, Times critic Graeme Richardson writes: ‘…
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…
Toronto
Beatriz
Hausner
Coquitlam
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-…
Coquitlam
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…
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…
London
Barbara
Haworth-Attard
Penelope writes fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry. She is the author of two books in the Dragon in the Mirror series (one children’s and a YA fantasy) and a stand-alone adult fantasy book. Her publications in literary journals include the Furious Gazelle, the…
Penelope
Hawtrey
Ottawa
Elizabeth Hay is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non- Fiction; her story…
Ottawa
Elizabeth
Hay
White Rock
Elaine Hayes studied creative writing at the University of Calgary (2007; B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing) and the Humber School for Writers.
Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including (M)othering…
White Rock
Elaine
Hayes
Salt Spring Island
Diana Hayes was born in Toronto in 1955 and has lived on the east and west coasts of Canada. She studied at the University of British Columbia and Victoria, receiving a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She was Poetry Editor for Prism international while at U.B.C. from ’80…
Salt Spring Island
Diana
Hayes
BURNABY
Diane has been writing professionally for over 30 years. An award-winning freelance writer and the author of an award-winning novel series, she was the speechwriter for international human rights lawyer Stephen Toope during his tenure as president of the University of British…
BURNABY
Diane
Haynes
Calgary
Elizabeth’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared magazines including Alberta Views, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Prism, Room and many anthologies, most recently This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone (Caitlin Press), Shy: an anthology, Waiting and You…
Calgary
Elizabeth Jane
Haynes
Toronto
Charles Hayter is a physician and award-winning writer based in Toronto, Canada. Prior to entering medical school, he studied English and Drama at Queen’s University and obtained a Masters in Drama at the University of Calgary. He received his M.D. from Queen’s University and…
Toronto
Charles
Hayter
LASALLE
Christine lives in Windsor, Ontario with her family. She is an avid reader, but her true love is writing. She enjoys literary, classics, horror, and contemporary fiction. Her retirement from the world of accounting and business management, turned into a full-time writing…
LASALLE
Christine
Hayton
Victoria
Kath Healing (they/them) is a poet based in Victoria, BC. Their work appears in PRISM international, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, Plenitude, Pulp Literature, and The Malahat Review, among others. Their poetry explores queerness and disability through the body as…
Victoria
Kath
Healing
Ottawa
Kate Heartfield is the author of several historical fantasy novels published by HarperCollins, including Mercutio (2026), The Tapestry of Time (2024), and the Sunday Times bestseller The Embroidered Book (2022), about Marie Antoinette and her sister…
Ottawa
Kate
Heartfield
Halifax
Michelle Hébert has turned the most difficult times in her life into stories that challenge, inspire, and remind us of the shared humanity that makes life sparkle. She has an MFA in creative non-fiction from the University of King’s College, and degrees and experience in…
Halifax
Michelle
Hébert
Cobble Hill
Toronto
Virginia Heffernan is a former geoscientist with an MSc from the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment and an MFA from the University of King's College. Her articles appear in publications such as CIM Magazine, …
Toronto
Virginia
Heffernan
Toronto
Born in Noranda, Quebec, Dorris Heffron has an Honours B.A.and M.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Queen's University, Canada. Heffron lived in Oxford, England from 1968-1980 where she was a tutor for Oxford University and The Open University, giving courses in…
Toronto
Dorris
Heffron
