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K.V. Johansen has Master's Degrees in Medieval Studies (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) and in English (McMaster). Her main scholarly interests are ancient and medieval history and languages, and the history of children's fantasy literature. Her non-fiction…
Krista
Johansen
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Sudbury
JEREMY JOHN is currently ranked as the sixty-second most famous person from Brantford, Ontario. (Look it up. There are a lot.) His career in broadcasting has included co-hosting shows on 680 NEWS, KiSS FM, and Breakfast Television. He is the author of two collections of short…
Sudbury
Jeremy
John
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Edmonton
Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was shortlisted for the Amazon first novel award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year prize.
Edmonton
Jessica
Johns
Kamloops
George M. Johnson was born in 1961 in Waterdown, Ontario. In 1984 he received an Honours B.A. in English and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from McMaster University, where he held a S.S.H.R.C. doctoral fellowship. Since 1991 he…
Kamloops
George Malcolm
Johnson
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Salt Spring Island
Sandi Johnson is interested in imaginative work that is socially relevant. "The Comfort of Angels," a fictional work, is based on her experience of working with Ojibwa Indians in northwestern Ontario. It portrays dignified characters who desire freedom and a better life. "The…
Salt Spring Island
Sandi
Johnson
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Vancouver
Elena Johnson is the author of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press, 2015), a collection of poems written at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies across Canada and internationally, and has been…
Vancouver
Elena
Johnson
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Hello everybody—late bloomer here! To contact me or to hear me read a chapter from my memoir They Left Us Everything, or to see behind-the-scenes videos, please visit my website at: https://plumjohnson.com
Plum
Johnson
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New Denmark, New Brunswick
J. Ivanel Johnson is the pen name for an author/playwright/composer living with (dis)Ability who now lives in the Appalachians of New Brunswick, where she and her husband and mother live on their small farm overlooking inspirational views of nature. Like her grandmother…
New Denmark, New Brunswick
J. Ivanel (Julie)
Johnson
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Whitefish Falls
Terry Lynn Johnson has been a dog musher with eighteen sled dogs, a wilderness park ranger, and currently works as a conservation officer with the Ministry of Natural Resources in northern Ontario.
Terry's novels have been recognized by Bank Street College Best Books, ABA Best…
Whitefish Falls
Terry Lynn
Johnson
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Toronto
Liz Johnston lives and writes in Toronto. Her stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Humber Literary Review, The Antigonish Review, and The Cardiff Review, among other publications. She is an editor of the international literary magazine Brick. For more information,…
Toronto
Liz
Johnston
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Wayne Johnston was born in Goulds, Newfoundland in 1958. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1978 with a BA (Hons) in English. He worked from 1978-1981 as a newspaper reporter with the St. John's Daily News. In 1981, after moving to Ottawa, he took up the…
Wayne
Johnston
Otonabee
Gordon Johnston was born in Port Arthur, now Thunder Bay, in 1947. He studied at Trinity College in Toronto and then at Harvard before starting a teaching career at Trent University in Peterborough that lasted forty years until he retired in 2011. He organized the university's…
Otonabee
Gordon
Johnston
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Vancouver
Simon's novel “The House of Wives," inspired by the lives of his mixed race family was published by Penguin Canada and Penguin India in 2016. His short stories have appeared in Ricepaper magazine and short fiction won the Friends of White Rock Library’s Writing Contest in 2015…
Vancouver
Simon
Johnston
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Halifax
A.J.B. Johnston writes both fiction and history.
John (or Jay) is originally from Truro, NS, and completed an MA in History at Dalhousie University, then a PhD at the Université Laval. He worked for Parks Canada for many years, with his time at the Fortress of Louisbourg being…
Halifax
John (or Jay)
Johnston
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Victoria, British Columbia
Born in Kincaid, Saskatchewan, now living in Victoria, BC, Leanne Marie Jones works as a private investigator in her firm "Secrets' Investigations." She is the mother of three grown children, and was previously a primary-school teacher, governess in Japan, librarian in Germany,…
Victoria, British Columbia
Leanne
Jones
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Toronto
Gord and his wife, Teena, live in Toronto with their two cats, Crumpet and Muffin. Defending the Inland Shores: Newfoundland in the War of 1812 was his first published work. Saving Tiberius (2020) was his first fictional novel. On September 1, his new crime thriller, Predators…
Toronto
Gordon K
Jones
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Thunder Bay
Marianne is the award-winning author of 8 books, including her most recent literary novel, Maud and Me (Crossfield, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in Resistance, (University of Regina Press,), Writing Menopause, (Inanna Publications), All We Can Hold (Sage Hill Press) and Indra`…
Thunder Bay
Marianne
Jones
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Kingston
Detailed and productive researcher and writer specializing in social justice, public policy, history and culture, music and culture-related travel. Published in September 2021, an award winning travel guide to the roots of the blues, co-authored with TWUC member Josephine…
Kingston
Craig
Jones
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Regina
Gerry Jones was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Gerry has travelled extensively from sea to sea to sea. He was a journalist for most of his working life, starting with newspapers and then moving to radio and television. He is an award-winning investigative journalist. Gerry…
Regina
Gerry
Jones
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TORONTO
Alana Jones has been a writer since the age of twelve after her mother encouraged her to write as a medium of expression.
Born in Trinidad, she is fascinated by both the Written Word and the Oral Traditions inspired by her childhood memories and cultural heritage.
A mother of…
TORONTO
Alana
Jones
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