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Montreal
Marlee Kostiner is an award-winning journalist, writer, editor, and the author of NaMOOste, a playful yoga book that helps kids build social-emotional skills. A passionate advocate for neurodiversity and mental health, Marlee brings these values into all her creative work. In…
Montreal
Marlee
Kostiner
Montreal
Leigh Kotsilidis has written two full-length collections of poetry, Hypotheticals (2011) and Some of Us May Live (forthcoming, Fall 2026), both with Coach House Books. Her poems have also appeared in journals and magazines, including The Malahat Review, Prism international,…
Montreal
Leigh
Kotsilidis
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
Naughton
Liisa Kovala is an award-winning Finnish Canadian author, book coach, and podcast host. Like Water for Weary Souls (House of Karhu 2025) is her second historical novel and recently won an IPPY Award, a BookFest Award and a Global Book Award. Liisa is the author…
Naughton
Liisa
Kovala
Montréal
Eve Krakow is the author of Voice Lessons, A Memoir in Essays (Guernica Editions, 2024). Her stories have appeared in Grain Magazine, The Nasiona, JMWW, Maisonneuve, lichen literary journal, Smithsonian Magazine and Shy: An Anthology. Through her writing, she seeks to…
Montréal
Eve
Krakow
Victoria
Uma Krishnaswami has been writing for young readers for 30 years. Among her many titles are Naming Maya (2024 Phoenix Award) Book Uncle and Me (Crossword Award, Intl. Literacy Association Social Justice Literature Award), Birds on the Brain, Step Up to the Plate Maria Singh (…
Victoria
Uma
Krishnaswami
Victoria
“I believe that we were all born to expand, not to shrink. That creative expression connects our individual lived experiences to the collective human experience; that storytelling is integral to our shared humanity; and art is a universal language that speaks to the worlds…
Victoria
Malgosia
Krol
Toronto
Karen Krossing wrote comics and poetry as a kid and dreamed of becoming a published writer. Today, she is the author of many books for young readers, including picture books My Street Remembers, One Tiny Bubble and Sour Cakes, and novels Monster vs. Boy, Punch Like a Girl,…
Toronto
Karen
Krossing
Toronto
Lesley Krueger is an award-winning writer who has published novels, non-fiction and short stories as well as working as a filmmaker. Her sixth novel, Far Creek Road, will be published in the fall of 2023 by ECW Press in both Canada and the U.S. Her previous novel…
Toronto
Lesley
Krueger
Salt Spring Island
Connie Kuhns has a forty-year history as an essayist, journalist, photographer and broadcaster. Her essay Strange Women (Geist 95), about women in Vancouver's early punk scene, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Last Day in Cheyenne (Geist 84) was named a 'Notable…
Salt Spring Island
Connie
Kuhns
St. Catharines
Chris Kuriata lives in and often writes about the Niagara Region. His short fiction has appeared in publications in Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Japan. His novel Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot is published by Palimpsest Press.
St. Catharines
Chris
Kuriata
Handan Oral Kurunc is the author of İDA – Roots in Cloaks (2020) and Mavi At (2014). Her love of magical realism and speculative fiction inspired her to write İda – Roots in Cloaks. She loves travelling with her favourite people, learning new languages, and meeting other…
Handan
Kurunc
Toronto
Lynne Kutsukake is a novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, The Translation of Love, won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. She was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust McClelland and Stewart Journey Prize…
Toronto
Lynne
Kutsukake
Ottawa
Joan Kuyek is an author, community organizer and researcher living in Ottawa. She was a co-founder of MiningWatch Canada and continues to support communities affected by mining. Before moving to Ottawa, she was a community organizer and facilitator living in Sudbury.
Ottawa
Joan
Kuyek
Vancouver
I've written more than 30 books for middle-grade and young-adult readers. I write both fiction and non-fiction, often choosing topics related to science, pop culture, or social history — or a combination of the three. I love tales about rogue scientists, obsessed adventurers,…
Vancouver
Tanya Lloyd
Kyi
