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Nelson
Ross Klatte was born in Minneapolis and raised on a Minnesota family farm. After service in the U.S. Navy and obtaining a degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he worked as a reporter and editor in Chicago and Detroit before emigrating with his wife to Canada…
Nelson
Ross
Klatte
Marilyn Kleiber, born in South Africa, but raised primarily in Canada, has been writing since childhood. She is an instructor in writing skills, an author, and a mentor to a variety of other scribblers. Everything she teaches as an instructor, she has used in her own works. Her…
Marilyn
Kleiber
Vancouver
Seth Klein is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy with the Climate Emergency Unit. Prior to that, he served for 22 years as the founding director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canada’s foremost social justice think tank…
Vancouver
Seth
Klein
Roberts Creek and Vancouver
Michael C. Klein , M.D., C.C.F.P., F.C.F.P., F.A.A.P. (Neonatal/Perinatal), F.C.P.S.,Emeritus Professor of Family Practice at UBC, Senior Scientist Emeritus Child and Family Research Institute in Vancouver
Best known for his RCT of episiotomy, demonstrating that it caused the …
Roberts Creek and Vancouver
Michael
Klein
Vancouver
Bonnie Sherr Klein began her career as a freelance documentary filmmaker in New York in the 1960’s after obtaining a BA from Barnard College and an MA in Communications at Stanford University. She immigrated to Canada with her husband as Vietnam War resisters in 1967, and began…
Vancouver
Bonnie
Klein
Vancouver
Ken Klonsky is the Director of Innocence International, an innocence project representing wrongly convicted people. A friend and colleague of the late Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the innocence work has shifted his writing career for the past ten years. He is the author of "Life…
Vancouver
Ken
Klonsky
Toronto
Maggie Knaus is a photographer and artist and serves on the executive of the Friends of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. She published her first children's book, Eleanor's Moon in 2023. Originally from Washington, DC, Maggie now lives in Toronto with her husband…
Toronto
Maggie
Knaus
Harrison Hot Springs
Chelene Knight is the author of the Braided Skin (Mother Tongue 2015) the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, and her novel, Junie (Book*hug 2022) long-listed for the…
Harrison Hot Springs
Chelene
Knight
Valerie Jean Knowles was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She obtained a B.A. (Honours, history) from Smith College, Northampton, Mass, and an M.A. (history) from McGill University before embarking on a career as a history instructor, archivist, and writer. She moved to…
Valerie
Knowles
Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1935 and graduated from high school in Coaldale, Alberta where her family was sent after WWII. She lives mainly in Toronto, Ontario.
Joy
Kogawa
Nelson
Hi! My name is Sophie. I’ve been writing and publishing creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essays, and satire for 15 years. My stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Hazlitt, Chatelaine, Outpost, McSweeney’s, The Globe and Mail, Today’s Parent, and Reader’s Digest, and…
Nelson
Sophie
Kohn
Edmonton
Katherine Koller writes for stage, screen and page. Her trilogy of Alberta Landworks plays includes Last Chance Leduc, The Seed Savers and Coal Valley and her collection of plays is Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays. Her six-part web documentary, Sustainable Me…
Edmonton
Katherine
Koller
Courtenay
Born in Lethbridge, Alberta to a family filled with entertainers and superb storytellers, Diana writes poetry, short stories and plays, and is also a theatre director and performer.
Her children's book, Starfall, the whimsical tale of a clown searching for fallen stars, was …
Courtenay
Diana
Kolpak
Couchiching First Nation
Frances Koncan (she/they) is an Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia, within the shared, unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Originally…
Couchiching First Nation
Frances
Koncan
Born in northern Alberta, Anne J. Konrad was raised on a farm in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia and graduated from the University of British Columbia. She married Harvey L. Dyck, and taught in New York City, New Jersey, and Vienna. She did graduate work in history at the…
Anne
Konrad
Edmonton
“See the life I’ve had can make a good man bad.”
-The Smiths
Born and raised at the periphery, the intrigue and inspiration of those who crossed lines blew Gregory around the Canadian Prairies like a jewel spider orb. He landed in…
Edmonton
Gregory
Koop
Weyburn
VICTORIA KOOPS never stopped playing make-believe and often writes while wearing a tiara. Her stories are full of epic adventure and swoony romance, and navigate social issues through the power of fandom and geek culture. Her debut novel, WHO WE ARE IN REAL LIFE, will be…
Weyburn
Victoria
Koops
Thornhill, ON
Gordon Korman was born in Montreal on October 23, 1963. He began writing at age 12. He is the author of 23 books for children and young adults. He graduated with a B.F.A. from New York University in 1985. His future plans include more of the same and some screenwriting. He…
Thornhill, ON
Gordon
Korman
Hamilton
Kristin Kory is a Canadian poet and author who discovered her passion for writing as a teenager growing up in Hamilton, Ontario.
Her poetry collection, Hungry for Ghosts, was re-released in 2023 by 300 South Media Group.
Kristin’s forthcoming book, Gardens From Graves, is…
Hamilton
Kristin
Kory
Toronto
Richelle Kosar began her career as a dramatist. Her first play, Earthbound, was adapted for television and produced by the CBC. Other dramatic works followed, including "The Piano Store" and "The Girls in the Office." Richelle has published two novels, The Drum King (…
Toronto
Richelle
Kosar
Edmonton
Myrna Kostash lives in Edmonton, Alberta where she works full-time as a writer of literary nonfiction - books, magazine articles, and radio documentaries - and as occasional lecturer and teacher of creative writing.
She is a past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta and…
Edmonton
Myrna
Kostash
Winnipeg
David Koulack was born in New York City. He earned his B.A. in psychology from Brandeis University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. He taught at Brooklyn College and Washington State University before starting the first sleep and dream laboratory at University of…
Winnipeg
David
Koulack
Sackville
Anne lives in Sackville, NB, and teaches at Mount Allison University. She has published ekphrastic poetry and a biography Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision is being released by Goose Lane Editions in the fall of 2023.
Sackville
Anne
Koval
