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Yellowknife
Cathy Jewison is a short story writer living in Yellowknife, NWT. A collection of her Yellowknife stories, The Ugly Truck and Dog Contest and Other Tales of Northern Life, was published by Borealis Press of Ottawa in 2009. Cathy has worked as a newspaper reporter, copy…
Yellowknife
Cathy
Jewison
Windsor & Toronto
Karl Jirgens was born in Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus (U. Windsor). He served as editor/publisher of Rampike magazine (1979-2016). The Rampike digital archive is free to the public c/o U Windsor's Leddy Library (all copyrights remain with contributors); https://…
Windsor & Toronto
Karl
Jirgens
Sita Jit (she/her) is an Indian-Canadian educator and author born and raised in Toronto. She has worked as a primary teacher, literacy lead teacher, and Curriculum Consultant and most recently, children’s book author.She loves writing picture books, chapter books and middle…
Sita
Jit
Dean Jobb writes historical true crime. A Gentleman and a Thief, his latest book, tells the story of a Jazz Age burglar who charmed New York’s elite and stole jewels worth millions from their posh estates. The NewYork Times Book Review describes it as “delectably entertaining”…
Dean
Jobb
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…
K. V.
Johansen
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
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
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. "…
Salt Spring Island
Sandi
Johnson
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
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
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
Moose Jaw
Luke Johnson is a Saskatchewan-based author of fantasy and children’s books. With his background in ancient languages, narratology, and mythology, Luke loves building big stories with deep roots.Luke has been creating fun characters and engaging stories (with all the voices!)…
Moose Jaw
Luke
Johnson
Brampton
Natalee A. Johnson (Naj) is a graduate of Niagara University with a B.A in Professional Studies in Education, graduate of the University of Victoria with a B.A in Child and Youth Work, Diploma in Court and Tribunal Administration and Early Childhood Educator from Seneca College…
Brampton
Natalee Antoinette
Johnson
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. Her first novel, The Fall…
Toronto
Liz
Johnston
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
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
E.K. Johnston had several jobs and one vocation before she became a published writer. If she’s learned anything, it’s that things turn out weird sometimes, and there’s not a lot you can do about it. Well, that and how to muscle through awkward fanfic because it’s about a pairing…
Emily Kate
Johnston
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
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
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.…
Regina
Gerry
Jones
Toronto
Gord and his wife, Teena, live in Toronto with their two cats, Crumpet and Muffin. The non-fiction, Defending the Inland Shores: Newfoundland in the War of 1812 (2016) was his first published work. He followed that up with 3 crime fiction novels, Saving Tiberius (2020…
Toronto
Gordon K
Jones
Brampton
Kevin heronJones is currently serving as the City of Brampton's first ever Writer in Residence. He is a storyteller. Through prose or through poetry; novel or short story. He writes and he narrates in the tradition of the ancient African griots who used stories and poetry to…
Brampton
Kevin
Jones
